Last time I was there (long time ago) we stayed in Hartlepool Marina and went to Boro from there and back as we didn't fancy staying in Boro.
Had a couple in a pub just around the corner from the Riverside - the Navigation I think it was, and we had the pub dog for company and he was a stinky bugger, lovely but very smelly. We had barms filled with beef, veg, and gravy, which wasn't for me - gravy and bread just doesn't work and neither does veg in bread, dirty bastards. The dog had mine.
But they were all very friendly in the pub, nice people, unlike the locals we encountered on the way to the stadium and on the way back.
We won 3-1 and I wouldn't put that scoreline beyond us tomorrow.