Hev on tour is back, making an almighty comeback for the UEFA Women's Championships in the Netherlands.
// day one
That's me, on a bike.
I could hardly sleep on Friday night, the night before travelling I can never sleep and with having to be up for 3:30am sleep was impossible.
I tried but at best probably got around an hour of sleep in total before the alarm was blaring and it was time to head to the airport.
Our Jan dropped me off, we left in plenty of time yet of course she panicked every time we hit a red light. Despite there being no traffic on the road whatsoever she took each red light as if I was going to miss my flight.
To no one's surprise, I made my flight. In plenty of time in fact, with absolutely no queues at the airport - a first - and meeting Ley and Oonagh for breakfast at Frankie & Benny's!
I've never flown to Amsterdam before and all my emails from Easyjet were on about it being a 90-minute flight, so I'd downloaded a couple of TV shows to watch. I'm not kidding, we got up in the air, I took my laptop out, pressed play and no more than five minutes later we were about to land. It took 45-minutes in total from Liverpool to Amsterdam.
So we landed in Amsterdam, met Deb and collected my luggage - which I had a brief panic about as I couldn't remember what it looked like.
Within no time at all we were on the train to Utrecht - our first stop on our European adventure. On this first part of my trip I'll be taking in six group games of the championships, before flying back out in August for the final.
Upon arrival in Utrecht, there was a stall set up with all kinds of Euros freebies so of course I picked up one of everything, and then we headed to our hotel.
Our hotel by the way.. well hostel.. is right on the square where the fanzone is. I mean right on it, overlooking it, just have to cross a small road and you're there on the square. Couldn't be better placed.
We had a quick bite to eat before we could check in, I ate nachos that were deceivingly spicy, drank a few beers and then basically slept for about three hours to catch up on sleep.
When I woke up I had a craving for Chinese food so Ley and Oonagh kindly googled a few places, and we went to the closest one - which, was amazing. Good decision by me, I must say.
Still pretty tired we found a local gay bar, drank a few more beers - I made friends outside from Paris and Brussels who were very amused by my accent - had a little dance, it felt like Popworld and then called it a night.
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