German update
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sarahxSo here I am, avoiding work. The only difference from normal is that I'm sat on the bed in my hotel room in Düsseldorf doing it rather than the sofa at home. D'dorf is one of those places I know all too well and thus have no desire to go exploring further, so figured I'd get on with a bit of the Cambridge magazine. However, my brain is on holiday. Maybe the work can wait until next week in Berlin!
The weather here is completely scorchio. I hope it lasts. We sat on the pavement outside a Chinese restaurant last night drinking beer, eating Chinese and watching Brazil v Croatia (and blimey, the Brazilians looked eminently beatable), I was still in my usual hot weather attire of vest and shorts and had no need to put the emergency I-hate-being-cold top I'd taken with me, even at midnight.
In the end there was no panic over the tickets being in the ex's name - I managed to transfer them on the internet last week, and we trolled down to the stadium ticket office in Cologne yesterday afternoon to pick up the replacement tickets. Figured the queues would be more manageable on a non-match day, and had the bonus that I could get all four reprinted at the same time, rather than have to queue up separately for each game. And there was indeed no queue. Result.
The 'we' for this evening's game (Germany v Poland in Dortmund) plus Friday's in Gelsenkirchen (Argentina v Serbia) is Ed, a fellow Wednesdayite who's just moved to Berlin, in theory to find a job, in practice he reckons he might not manage to look very hard until the World Cup is over. The joys of being 25, eh. For the Munich game on Sunday (Brazil v Australia), my uni mate formerly known as Millwall Mick (he's now a thoroughly respectable citizen with a German wife and kids) is coming - he lives in Munich now so it seemed rude not to ask him. And the final game, on Thursday next week, is Ukraine v Tunisia, and I'm taking my brother-in-law Ian; he's living in Berlin at the moment and as I'm staying with him, how could I not take him?
Ed and I are off to Dortmund in an hour or so to be in time to watch the Spain game, either in a bar or on the big screen. It'll be a late night tonight as the match isn't until 9pm German time, but I'll still endeavour to write it up when I get back...
The weather here is completely scorchio. I hope it lasts. We sat on the pavement outside a Chinese restaurant last night drinking beer, eating Chinese and watching Brazil v Croatia (and blimey, the Brazilians looked eminently beatable), I was still in my usual hot weather attire of vest and shorts and had no need to put the emergency I-hate-being-cold top I'd taken with me, even at midnight.
In the end there was no panic over the tickets being in the ex's name - I managed to transfer them on the internet last week, and we trolled down to the stadium ticket office in Cologne yesterday afternoon to pick up the replacement tickets. Figured the queues would be more manageable on a non-match day, and had the bonus that I could get all four reprinted at the same time, rather than have to queue up separately for each game. And there was indeed no queue. Result.
The 'we' for this evening's game (Germany v Poland in Dortmund) plus Friday's in Gelsenkirchen (Argentina v Serbia) is Ed, a fellow Wednesdayite who's just moved to Berlin, in theory to find a job, in practice he reckons he might not manage to look very hard until the World Cup is over. The joys of being 25, eh. For the Munich game on Sunday (Brazil v Australia), my uni mate formerly known as Millwall Mick (he's now a thoroughly respectable citizen with a German wife and kids) is coming - he lives in Munich now so it seemed rude not to ask him. And the final game, on Thursday next week, is Ukraine v Tunisia, and I'm taking my brother-in-law Ian; he's living in Berlin at the moment and as I'm staying with him, how could I not take him?
Ed and I are off to Dortmund in an hour or so to be in time to watch the Spain game, either in a bar or on the big screen. It'll be a late night tonight as the match isn't until 9pm German time, but I'll still endeavour to write it up when I get back...
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