No blog entry for a couple of days...just cramming for my trade show in Amsterdam, which is where I am today. Nice weather here as I look out the press room windows at all the international flags in front of the RAI Congress Center. Dawn and Kim arrived today, too, as did Rob, Joel and Anna from the UK office.
We did a walk-through of the facility here, which is great and very functional. The wireless in the pressroom even works! IT got us up and running. Lynne's back at the hotel, contemplating a visit to the Van Gough Museum later this week.
We arrived at our hotel about 2:30 today after losing an hour on our flight from London. We immediately wondered out of the hotel seeking a) a bank machine; and b) food. We immediately wondered into this area of canals lined with buildings and sidewalks. No teller machines or the right food. But, we did wander full-blown into Amsterdam's famous red light district. It's legal and licensed here and is plunked down in the middle of a prime tourist area. Pretty interesting. I won't go into more detail and don't have photos :).
Tomorrow is Day Zero, but still lots of prep work to do. Everything is going wonderfully. Claudia got a Holland team jersey (bright Orange) that she's wearing around the press room. Holland is in the semifinals and plays on Wednesday which will be huge here.
I didn't cover the England loss to Portugal. It was too tragic. As one of the tabloids said: Idiot ref costs England. England scored with minutes remaining, but the referee disallowed it because of alleged goalkeeper interference. It wasn't. Then the game went to overtime. Portugal scored in the second extra period, but England countered. So, it went into a shootout. It was still tied after five shootout chances, but Portugal's goalkeeper stopped the sixth England try and then the goalkeeper made his kick for Portugal.
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