City & Blue Brazil
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Late 1970s, coach from social club around midnight down to dover then ferry over to Ostende then onto Eindhoven, dropped bag in the hotel and local pub for a few hours then coach over the border to monchengladbach, few beers outside and met a few soldiers who had come from a local barracks to support us, lost game 3-1, back to Eindhoven for midnight, taxi into town to a street full of bars, around 6 in the morning remembered coach left at 7 but couldn't remember name of hotel, rung police who were very nice but couldn't help and eventually fell lucky flagging a taxi down who recognised hotel from description, grabbed bags and back on coach with minutes to spare , couple of hours to kill so off in a bar having changed guilders for francs, bar on boat, had to carry mate to duty free to buy vodka as couldn't walk, back at Dover and had lost passport but let in, helped customs were on strike, coach back to Manchester from where mate drove us home!! Some trip that.