June 2014 - Euro 2024 fever... In Prague
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
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🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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I'm in Prague, having flown in last night with a lot of Scotland football fans who were finding a roundabout route to reach Munich for the opening match in the Euro 2024 tournament tonight. Want to experience the atmosphere? Wait till the knock-out stages. Meanwhile, travel and accommodation for the Paris 2024 Olympics are wide open.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder. |
| 0:05.8 | It's Friday the 14th of June and I'm speaking to you just a few hours ahead of the kickoff of Euro 2024. |
| 0:14.8 | Yes, at 8pm British time, Scotland will take on Germany in the very first group match of this great tournament. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm speaking to you actually, and you can possibly hear the background from beautiful Prague in the Czech Republic. |
| 0:32.6 | But that's actually highly relevant in terms of the subject of today, which is if you suddenly decide that |
| 0:42.1 | you want to travel out and support England or support Scotland, or indeed just take in the |
| 0:48.5 | atmosphere, can you do it? Well, I've been looking at this indeed on my flight from Manchester to Prague yesterday |
| 0:57.9 | evening about half the passengers were Scotland fans and you might be thinking, well, why on earth |
| 1:04.5 | would they travel by that route? Very simple. Price. There was, for example, flights from Edinburgh to Munich where the game is taking place. |
| 1:15.6 | This morning, they were into the many hundreds of pounds, and as a result, people found their own ways around it. |
| 1:23.6 | And travelling to England before flying to the Czech Republic was actually going to save people |
| 1:29.9 | quite a lot of money and of course they were celebrating on Wenceslas Square quite late into the |
| 1:35.4 | evening last night before travelling on to Munich a matter of about four hours or so today. |
| 1:42.1 | So that was a good move by them judging by the fairs and the bookings, |
| 1:48.6 | they're going to be quite a lot of people flying back by the same route on Sunday. We have, |
| 1:54.6 | though, got many exciting matches coming up. England kickoff against Gelsenkirken against Serbia and Gelsenkirken on Sunday. |
| 2:04.8 | The nearest airport is Dusseldorf and tomorrow the last few seats on BA from Heathrow to Dusseldorf |
| 2:13.9 | are selling it almost £500 for a flight of barely an hour. Against Switzerland in |
| 2:20.8 | Cologne on Wednesday, that's Scotland's second match. A flight for Medinburgh is £350. And if your |
| 2:27.7 | credit car can stand that strain, well finding a hotel room is going to be tricky. I think because of the very good cheap rail travel in Germany, |
| 2:37.9 | you could even base yourself across the border in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, |
| 2:42.8 | travel on from there. |
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