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July 23, 2006
Hopping to England
A long but uneventful flight to the UK was punctuated by a few hours stop over in Frankfurt, Germany.
Still fizzing from the World Cup, it was fun to soak in its lingering afterglow.
There are, it seems, many satellite competitions that orbit the main event, and the airport was full of track suited pods of youth teams returning to all corners of the soccer world.
I enjoyed a 8.30 am breakfast of sausage and a huge beer, made less slightly obscene by the company of many other hardcore uberbratundbrewmunchen comrades.
It was also cool to get some foreign money in my wallet. At one point I had dollars, pounds, marks and euros to sort out for my breakfast tab. There were charity donation points around the airport into which departing travelers made spare change contributions. It all made for a colorful mosaic.
Posted by Andrew at July 23, 2006 04:33 AM