Arriving and the world cup

Well, there is a slight difference between the length of the days last time I was here and now.
Also the temperature is a little better - last time I gotoff the plane in Heathrow it was -2 degrees, this time, 30 degrees.

Anyway, enough small talk. The flight was good and we actually took off, on time, first try. Yay for Qantas. The flight was completely full and so there was no room to move around much but all of the people were fairly quiet and so I got a little bit of sleep.

When I got off the plane and caught a taxi back to the hotel there was only one place to be - in front of a TV. England vs Portugal was on and the place stopped. It was a weird sensation to be watching soccer, err, sorry football while it was light. Anyway, after lots of yelling at the referees and the players, it was all over and the pub became quite a grumpy place and I was happy to leave it to go for bed. For those that missed the result England are out of the world cup after losing in penalties with lots of bad efforts from the spot.

The next morning I got up and went to the gym for a quick work out and then breakfast before Keith picked me up to go to OXford. Stay tuned ...