WC98logA.gif (1251 bytes)How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Day 5  WC98logA.gif (1251 bytes)

Tuesday June 23,1998

A subgroup of  us went down to St.Denis to try to score some tickets to the aut-name.gif (673 bytes)AUT_flag.gif (363 bytes) - ita-name.gif (570 bytes)ITA_flag.gif (537 bytes) match at the Stade de France.

Austrian Fan

 About half of us got in.  Larry and I weaseled some kid down to  700 franks some tickets that had 138 face value on them.  The scalpers were everwhere and they all seemed to want at least 1000 franks for tickets that cost them anywhere from 38 to 200 franks.  But the seats were well worth the monopoly money and haggling with the French was fun.

 Austrian  Fans are a proud bunch.  Italian fans are much more sedate.The game was a bit slow compared to the Germany - Yugoslavia game, but the result made my pisan Larry happy.

St.Denis and Me    This stadium is awesome Bill!Stdedge1.jpg (8447 bytes)

Stade de France. Cool Field.

 

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