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Euro 24 2nd Semi Final – England v Netherlands
Spain await the winners of the march up in Dortmund for Sundays’ Berlin final. England There are many fine cathedrals in England. How many of these do you recognise? Netherlands Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands and one of Europe’s largest ports. It sits on the River Rhine and is a major […]
Euro 24 Match Day 19 – Turkey v Netherlands
Turkey The surprise team of the tournament so far. Probably my favourite ever train journey was back in May 2009 from Istanbul to Adana (and onto Syria by road). We cut through the snowbound Toros Mountains on the Toros express. Netherlands The canal district of Amsterdam is particularly beautiful at night. Match Prediction – Turkey […]
Euro 24 Match Day 17 – Romania v Netherlands
In 2011 I did an Eastern European train tour which started with two overnight trains – Budapest to Bucharest followed by Bucharest to Chisinău in Moldova. The latter train was hauled by a beast of a locomotive, whilst our first class sleeper featured net curtains and a plastic tree! Netherlands I travelled on the first […]
Euro 2024 Match Day 12 – Netherlands v Austria
Quick fire post due to not knowing the game was today! Netherlands The Amsterdam canal district is a wonderful area to stroll along or to take a boat ride. Austria I visited Innsbruck for the second time in February. It’s a lovely alpine city. Match Prediction – Netherlands 2 Austria 1
Euro 24 Match Day 8 – France v Netherlands
France France is my most visited country. A) I love it there and B) it is so easy to get to for me. Our first post Covid foreign trip was to Nancy. Eurostar to Paris, a ten minute stroll to Gare du L’Est and another train. Fully masked, a long immigration queue checking immunisation certificates, […]
Euro 24 Match Day 3 – Poland v Netherlands
There will be plenty of vodka drunk tonight if the Poles manage to beat the Dutch, with many building jobs delayed by a day tomorrow 🙂 Poland The Baltic city of Gdańsk has a famous history. It was close to the Hanseatic port that the first shots were fired in anger at the start of […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 15 – Netherlands v Czech Republic
The last 16 tie takes place in Budapest. 55 ‘European nations’ entered initially including ex-Soviets like Armenia & Kazakhstan, the four UK countries, Israel for political reasons and bizarrely in my opinion Faroe Islands and Gibraltar. What next, Jersey & Yorkshire? Czech Republic I first visited Prague in 1992 when it was part of Czechoslovakia, […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 11 – Netherlands v North Macedonia
The match in Amsterdam is a bit of a dead rubber with the Dutch already through to the knockout stages and the plucky Macedonians on the way out of the competition. Netherlands The second city of Rotterdam is far less visited than Amsterdam, but is a decent place to spend a few hours. I went […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 7 – Netherlands v Austria
The last game of the day takes place in Amsterdam. Netherlands Amsterdam is famous for many things, not all of them savoury. The canals that criss-cross through the city are wonderful for just strolling along or for stopping for a beer in the sunshine. I have stayed in both a youth hostel and a luxury […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 3 – Netherlands v Ukraine
The final fixture of day three takes place in Amsterdam. Netherlands Amsterdam was where my travelling began way back in 1987. It was my first inter-rail trip, with my first ever overseas train journey taking us from the port of Hoek of Holland past flat fields of cabbages to the iconic Dutch city. Our introduction […]
