Well, it's game day! The matches were not until the afternoon though so I decided to visit the Rail Park in the morning. It's a similar idea to the High Line in New York - A garden built on what used to be an elevated railway line. Philly's version is still being created and only phase one is open. It's not as impressive as the High Line yet but they have big plans for it so it might well be one day. You can see from the first picture that it doesn't look like much when you first arrive but once you get up there they have lots of interesting plants. There are also art installations and they have music there in the evenings.
The line that the park is built on originally went into Reading Terminal which is now a huge covered food market with lots of different types to choose from. I'd gone out early this morning, so I wasn't hungry for anything (though lots of the cakes and cookies looked amazing) but I still liked looking at all the different vendors, although most are set up to sell breakfast, lunch or snacks to tourists there are also fruit and veg and fresh fish stalls.
A nice, chilled morning before the games which were a nice, though very warm experience. Fulham played Brentford first and then Newcastle played Aston Villa with a 40 minute break in between. It was a bit strange being surrounded by people supporting four different teams (I also saw someone walking around in a Watford shirt - your guess is as good as mine) but I sat next to two American Newcastle fans who were so genuinely thrilled to be sat next to a real live British person that it made me feel very special.
