Since our last update we've had a very mixed experience. After our last blog, Andrew spent the day walking around Dusseldorf, and Jamie spent the day in bed as she wasn't feeling well. That night we had a quiet one, watched some football and had a few beers at the camping ground "stadium" that they had set up. It was made from wooden pallets stacked high and covered in floodlights, beer signs and a massive TV. Pretty cool.. Sunday was the BIG day... we left our campsite at around midday and found a really nice bar down on the river in the centre of Dusseldorf. We met some really nice German guys who we sat with and watched the first two games for the day in lead up to the big one, AUSTRALIA Vs GERMANY! The whole day was full of Germans giving us shit for wearing our Australian gear. Obviously this stirred us on even more and we pulled out the Australian flag and gave it back to them (obviously we didn't know what was coming that night). We met a group of lads that were wearing all Australian gear and decided to go and sit with them. They were the loudest guys in the whole bar which was brilliant. So here we are sitting in a group of 10 Aussies, or so we thought... it turns out that all of these "Aussie" guys we met were actually from Switzerland! They had once visited Australia and liked it so much that they all bought Aussie soccer shirts and travelled to Germany to watch the game. That... and they hate the Germans! (from their mouth) HAHA! These wonderful lads shouted us drinks for most of the night because we're Aussies and we had a great time with them. That was where the night went down hill, not only the four goal trashing that we coped by the German team, but we also met some rather arrogant Germans who insisted on giving us a hard time about even being in their country. Wonderful sports hey....At this point Jamie wanted to get out of Germany alltogether!!
The following day was spent very quietly around the camping ground waiting for the mechanic to turn up and have a look at our mate Callum. This was a pretty special day of the trip.... Not one beer between us. Thats right, neither of us had a beers ALL DAY! Ended up the mechanic didn't show up as they were too busy..
Today started very saddly, but turned out to be OK... We started the day by seeing Callum loaded onto the back of a truck and taken away from us, which was more emotional than you would think... We saw our home being taken away from us and all we had was two small bags, a jar of garlic and a jar of green curry paste (stuff we had to take out of the fridge..). We went to the airport in the hope to pick up a cheap flight to Berlin to check it out, but it was going to cost 200 euro each so we didn't bother. We went back into town to watch the NZ game at an Irish bar (NZ JUST SCORED A GOAL!!!) and have a couple of pints. On pint number 2, the mechanic called and advised that the repair job will be 550 Euro and will be ready by tomorrow! We're stoked! To celebrate, we're off to a nice hotel tonight to unwind and get back into it.
Tomorrow - Moselle Valley (depending what time we get the big man back...)
A&J
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- Andrew and Jamie Griffioen
- Andrew and Jamie are a married couple from Brisbane, Australia. We have embarked on an overseas adventure for 6 months leaving in April and returning in October. We plan to cover the UK and a lot of Europe. To see more details, check out our posts below.
Wow what a sensational experience to be in Germany for that game! Its a shame a few locals had to ruin it but it sounds like most people were cool. I'm so glad callum won't take much to fix - just what your airfares to Berlin were going to cost. Brilliant! Were missing u guys heaps and I'm loving reading about your adventures. Keep an eye out this weekend for your surprise!
ReplyDeleteFantastic news darlings. Glad you enjoyed the football even though the result was devastating. Football fanatics sometimes get nasty even when their team wins. There are wankers everywhere. Holland is going well so perhaps they might take some wind out of the Germans sails if and when they meet. Enjoy the Mozelle Valley and don't forget to visit Cochem. Stay safe. Love U both
ReplyDeleteSeeing Germany were beaten last night keep your fingers crossed and hope AUS beats Ghana tonite. That will throw the group wide open. Sorry to hear about Callum - hope he is now running a lot better.
ReplyDeletePeter Griff.