World Cup Excitement Grows...

We have now been here in Frankfurt for 5 days and things are hotting up and getting ready for the start of the World Cup competition this coming Friday. Everywhere in town are shops with window displays with a World Cup theme, it's a full-time job just keeping Yates from buying every piece of memorabilia available.

We have worked out how to get around the city and have purchased our WM Rail Passes to allow us to travel to games in other cities. As you can see we now have our tickets for the games and are on the lookout for more if we can find them. It would appear that we are amongst the lucky ones to actually have any tickets at all, there seems to be a lot of people with none at all.
We have found a great bar with a dozen big plasma screens where we will base ourselves for those game we wish to watch on TV. Not only has this bar, (called 'Sam's Bar'), got the TV's, the main guy behind the bar speaks good English and will reserve us a good table for the games, and one of the waitresses is from the USA..! The food looks good as well and it's only a short walk from our apartments, who could ask for more...??

In addition to Sam's Bar, we have the option to go to the main Fan Fest area where there is a huge floating TV screen moored in the middle of the Main river...!! Set up on each bank are terraces of seating which is free on match days. We are planning to go and watch the opening game between Germany and Costa Rica at this unique Fan Fest arena, and soak up as much of the atmosphere as possible... Go Costa Rica...!!
Just 2 days to go....