Away day Eagles: Your stories from Lublin to Liverpool

A 2-0 victory over Dynamo Kyiv ensured the return journey was a celebratory one, even if this was always going to be a historic away day, regardless of the result.

The Eagles were back in action only three days later for another momentous away fixture, our first ever trip to Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium.

Although on that occasion the team didn’t get the desired result on the pitch, the travelling support was once again magnificent.

All in all, it was another week that made you proud to be Palace. Here are a few stories from a busy few days following Palace from Poland to Merseyside – as ever with thanks to you all for your submissions.

Brian

My first game at Selhurst was back in 1968 aged just 11.

So 57 years later how could we miss this trip? Me and my two Manchester-born sons made the trip to Lublin, via a stopover in Warsaw.

Fantastic three days and a great result. Living the dream at last!

Mark

Wow! What a great start to our European Tour.

Lublin was amazing. Fans? Amazing. Team? Amazing.

Living the dream. I live in Slovakia, so told the boys to fly to Warsaw and I would pick them up. It was a seven-hour drive for me from Slovakia to Warsaw. Then another one hour 45 minutes or so mini-road trip with boys all the way to Lublin. We arrived around 10pm, dumped the bags and went straight to Lublin Square. Late finish!

Matchday amazing. From breakfast to early hours drinks in square. It really was living the dream. Thank you, Palace. Oh and 19 Unbeaten!

Cheers. With thanks to Mark, Drew, Jake & Budge (And Petra for looking after us)

Lui

I've been a Palace fan for the last 10 years where I spent a year away in Madrid.

I moved back to the UK in December last year where I had the opportunity to go to all the games in our historic FA Cup run.

Having never done a solo travel trip before, I thought the best way to get started was with a European away game with Palace.

I travelled to Warsaw on the Wednesday morning where I spent time round the old town. I travelled to Lublin on the Thursday morning on a FlixBus where I met a few fellow Palace fans, who were travelling to the game and who ended up staying in the same hotel as me.

Getting into Lublin, me and a few Palace fans I just met ended up drinking together in a pub in the square before the game. I travelled with a bloke who before getting to Warsaw, had never thought about watching a game in Poland let alone travelling to Lublin with us.

I eventually ended up flying back the Saturday night for a night bus to Liverpool for the Everton game.

For me, the undoubted highlight of the trip was the atmosphere in Lublin and the noise us Palace fans made on our first Conference League away game.