King's Lynn man David Blackmore shares his journey to Frankfurt for the Euros 2024
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00:00At that point I realised it was going to be mission impossible to make it to that England
00:06Denmark game.
00:07Hey everyone.
00:08I do not know where to begin with the drama that I had to endure yesterday.
00:15It's quite a story.
00:16It starts unsurprisingly with the Flixbus which left an hour later than it should have
00:21done which meant that we missed our ferry which meant that we had to wait three hours
00:27at Dover for the ferry to Calais.
00:31Nightmare start.
00:32This meant instead of arriving in Frankfurt at 1.40pm which would have given me plenty
00:36of time before the England Denmark kick off it meant at one stage our estimated arrival
00:42time was 5.40pm which would have given me 20 minutes to get into Frankfurt, drop off
00:49my bag and get to the stadium but then I had an idea.
00:52All of these bus stops between London and Frankfurt were all stopping off by major train
00:58stations.
00:59Could I buy a train ticket to Frankfurt?
01:02The only option I had along the whole route was from Leeds which would have got me a train
01:08into Frankfurt at 3.30pm.
01:10Genius.
01:11Brilliant.
01:12So I go to book the train, can't book it I'm afraid, computer says no, no reserved seats
01:18available on this service.
01:20Absolute nightmare.
01:22But then I have another genius idea.
01:24What if I bought two train tickets just to try and break it up and see if the computer
01:29would say yes to that which it did!
01:31Get in!
01:32I'm gonna make the game.
01:33But going up the escalator to the platform I feel my pocket with my phone go somewhat
01:38light.
01:39Oh!
01:40I thought my phone's fallen out of my pocket.
01:42But no.
01:43As I turn around I see a young lad putting my phone into his pocket to which I went absolutely
01:53berserk at him.
01:54I was thinking after everything that I've been through today you are not taking my phone
01:59off me.
02:00So after a delayed coach, a missed ferry, trouble booking train tickets and then being
02:06pickpocketed surely there could be nothing else that went wrong.
02:10And then I watched England play.
02:13What an absolute disaster that was.
02:16It just topped off a really really cruddy day.
02:20But thank you for tuning in for another story time with David Blackmore.
02:23I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have sharing it with you.