Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating 5 feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination.

Not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.

This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does.

Avanti West Coast, feel good travel.

Hello and welcome to another ice blog, Icecast on iceblood.com, in association with oleole.com.

And also an association with my increasingly creaky chair.

See, it's the creakiest chair known to man, I should oil it. But you know, I'd probably get oil all over my pants then.

And it's not the seat necessarily, that's the squeaky bit.

Ah, yeah, but why would you oil the seat?

I don't know, anyway, it's another week over, and that means, that means, that we're another week closer to the new football season.

I don't know about you, but I'm missing the football, even though, for some strange reason,

ice blog is busier in the summer than it is when we actually have games.

There are more visitors, more comments, and more people giving out to me and things.

I think, probably it's people just desperate for news and looking for information wherever they can get a clicking refresh,

time and time and time again, or it could be down to the fact that the blogs are so amazingly awesome,

full of information that you can't get elsewhere and exclusives that others only, yeah.

I don't know, I don't know, it's just strange, it's just strange.

It would be nice to get some real football back though, because I do miss the arsenal.

We did yesterday get the fixtures for next season, which are quite interesting.

I think August is a good chance for us to get off to a good start with a home game against Fulham and a way game.

Against Blackburn Rovers and also a home game against Manchester City.

Also in August, we've got two UEFA Champions League qualifying games, of course, to get through to the group stages.

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