The First Game

Okay, firstly thank you to all the people who volunteered to fly over and give me foot massages, but no, it isn't necessary, I have taken the situation well in hand regarding my shoes, and purchased a pair of Salomon hiking boots .. super comfey, so that is all good.

Where were we last time? Been a few days between updates due to lack of internet facilities or motivation!

Thats right, Nuremberg, and the upcoming game between England and Trinidad and Tobago. Nuremberg was crazy, there were so many English fans around, thousands of them everywhere. It had a real party atmosphere. The town square was decked out with lots of big screens, and there were people everywhere. We went out for a few beers, ready for the game the next day.

We mucked around for a while in the morning, then got ready to head out to the game around 2pm (the game was at 6). Bruce wanted to catch the tram to the game in order to see more, so we headed out to the ground jam packed into a tram with hundreds of other fans. We got into some area called FanFest near the ground where there was a big screen. Watched the game before, all good.

It got to 5pm, and no one was heading into the ground, nothing was happening, although there were thousands of people where we were? What was going on? We started asking around, and it turned out that there was another ground a few kms away (similar to the whole SCG SFS thing). Turned out we were at the wrong ground! So began a mad dash to the other ground, which was way off in the distance. Luckily, we made it with some time to spare, but gee, you think there would have been some better signposting or something??

As for the game itself, it was unbelievable. The atmosphere was unlike anything I have ever experienced before. Lets just say the enlisgh were a lot happier once they had scored a few goals, and that they were writing off the team before that.


Anyway, I had written all this stuff and managed to lose it, due to blogger being in German and me not speaking German, so now you get the abbreviated second version.

From there, we went on to an old town called Rothenberg, which I went to once when I was younger, but don't really remember. We stayed in a fantastic guest house. I went for a hike yesterday around town, which was supposed to only be 11km long, but somehow I ended up walking about 15km after getting lost (the instructions were in German! common theme happening here...) It went through some beautiful forest, and then up along the hill tops. Even managed to get some Bairdy style crop photos!

We also watched the Croatia vs. Japan game, and Australia vs. Brazil. I thought we were pretty unlucky, but am looking forward to Australia Croatia. From here it is on to Frankfurt to watch Argentina vs. Netherlands.

GO AUSTRALIA!