Sorry I've been away for a while; a lack of WiFi in the hotel in Neumunster was to blame at first and then I somehow forgot to write anything last night here in Enschede. Honestly, not that much has happened anyway. In Copenhagen we toyed with the idea of an impromptu visit to Sweden but we decided against due to the cost of the crossing (54€ one way on the bridge) and the time it would then take us to get back through Denmark to our hotel in Neumunster, Germany. We drove up the coast instead to a place called Helsingør. All the way along the coast you could see across the water to Sweden but from Helsingør you felt you could almost reach out and touch Helsingborg on the opposite shore.
From there we went to Neumunster, which was nothing more than a stop on the road to Enschede, and therefore another place I don't have a lot to tell you about. We ended up talking to an Austrian woman at breakfast; she - and apparently everyone else - assumed we were in town for the heavy metal festival happening not far away. Fair enough, my aesthetic does have something of the metalhead about it. That was the only thing that happened in Neumunster anyway and we very soon hit the road to Enschede.
By a stroke of luck our hotel was only about 15 minutes' walk from the football stadium so we stayed in our rooms and chilled out all evening until it was time for the game. The Dutch team defeated the English and it was a triumph of will over skill - not that the Dutch weren't skilled, that's just not the main reason they won - and dare I say that England's supposed tactical genius head coach got a number of things wrong?
Anyway, that's what has happened over the last few days. We're just off to Luxembourg now and I'll update again from there.
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