Euro 2004
During Euro 2004 a friend, Nick, and I fancied going to Portugal to watch England fail to win. Then, we had this great, drunken, idea - instead of going to the country that the tournament was in, we would go to each country that England were playing in the tournament and watch the games there.
We flew to Nice to watch England take the lead against France with 5 minutes to go, only to lose 2-1, in a French bar with the French. We then flew to Geneva to watch England beat Switzerland at a big screen at the Stade De Geneve. We then got a train through italy, stopping off in Milan to watch Italy draw against Sweden in a pub full of Italians who all went home on the final whistle. We then continued the train journey to Ancona and a ferry to Split to watch England hump Croatia.
We then had a wait to see who we would play in the quarter finals. we could have got Spain, Greece or Russia and we had our routes planned out, We ended up with Portugal and we decided to hire a car and drive from Croatia, through Slovenia, Italy, France and Spain - 3000km in 48 hours - arriving in Oporto 45 minutes before kick off.

We were delighted with the result.

Jamie.
(Expiry, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 23:37, Reply)