England vs Czech Rep...(part 1)

Right, lets start at the best place to begin, the start!

After an early morning swim (which knackered us both!) we made our way via the hotel shuttle bus to Schipol Airports train station and purchased our return tickets to Arnhem.

Made our way down to the platform and low and behold, our train got delayed! All the other trains we saw on varied other platforms all arrived a few mins early and left slap bang on the scheduled time. Anyway about 10-15 mins later our train turned up and we made our way to Utrecht where we had to change. All went smoothly with the change and for the rest of the journey to Arnhem.

We arrived there early and promptly headed down to the nearest Burger King and feated on 2 Chicken Royale's, or as there called over here Chicken Long Original. After munching these we headed in to Arnhem center and had a look around, very nice town put simply and spotted a few more England fans dotted around. Though without knowing you would not of been able to tell there was to be UEFA Tournament featuring there. Anyway as the time passed we went for an Ice Cream where we waited for an EnglandFan member who was travelling on his own. Just as we were finishing the Ice Cream he arrived having made his way across from the train station.

We then upped and went for another wander around Arnhem center noticing a slightly increased amount of England fans. After a while the walking got to much so we found a bar and had a drink...served by 3 lesbians called Paisley...and a wierd bloke. They didn't seem to keen on us English, as was proved when we had to wait 5mins to be served (as did all the other English using that bar) where as the Dutch were getting served in seconds. Eventually we got served, small portions and served with a grumpy attitude! We decided on another round, which was met with the same level of enthusiasm. I opted to go inside and ask, tho was blanked and then despite having the drinks in hand one of the 3 lesbians wanted to take the drinks to the table. These were notably downed and as time was clocking on we decided to make a move and get the bill...how "Can i have the bill please" sounds like "I want a Coke" I don't know but obviously its a dutch lesbian thing...after several attempts by myself and Pete (the EF member) Debz offered, and they sorted the bill out straight away! Thus why there lesbians, or femenists....oh well.

From here we went back towards the bus/train station, met a few England fans who told us it was only a 30min walk down to the ground. We'd already been told it was an hours walk!

Following both sets of information we opted for the bus, which some old (probably gay) dutch bloke helped us out and told us which bus/tram to get....not bad for 1euro but it was bloody hot on the bus...

Anyway onwards to the ground....and the match....but that'll be in part 2!