If I don't blog it, will it still happen?
Here's something I haven't blogged. Bern is one of the host cities for the Euro2008 (that's the European Football [aka soccer] Championships). I can't begin to express the many ways in which this does not excite me, but I'll try:- I'm not a football fan. I didn't grow up playing it, I didn't grow up watching it, and I'm too old and too busy to get interested in a new sport now.
- I don't like crowds. When I lived in Washington, DC, inauguration day was a nightmare. Protest times were a nightmare. Heck, high tourist season was a nightmare. People lost, taking up tables at my favorite restaurants, crowding the Metro, people standing still on the left-hand side of of escalators! Ack.
- I don't like drunken crowds.
- I hate lines.
- The Old Town is being converted into a fan-zone.
- I have to cut through the Old Town to get to several of my old stand-by playgrounds and other interesting Smal Boy places.
- Plus, I just like to hang out in the Old Town.
- The stadium is on the same tram line as Dr. Norwegian (our pediatrician).
- The most convenient grocery store to shop in with two small children is directly next to the stadium.
- There are, apparantly, fears of a Wurst shortage! (link via This Non-American Life)
- The camp ground that has apparantly been booked out by the Dutch is on the same tram line as our Tagesmutter.
- The camp ground that has apparantly been booked out by the Dutch is just upstream from one of my Small Boy hangouts.
- Half of the games start at 8:45 pm and will end around 10:30; so the horn-honking car brigades will roll from 10:30 until....?
- The Euro2008 will last for three weeks.
- R will be gone for those exact three weeks: 1 week in Zurich (also a host city) and two weeks in the United States!
- Could there be a worse overlap?
Seriously. If I ignore this, will it go away?
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