>Big event at the moment is the European Football Championships (rest of the world read: soccer) being jointly hosted by Switzerland and Austria.

They don’t have a chance of winning, but it appears to have been their turn. (Good at skiing, though).

Germany played Poland last night and the local business people here in the rural metropolis that is Klein-Winternheim got together and sponsored a big truck with a thumping great screen which was parked on the Andreas Square between the Town Hall and the church last night.

Klaus Hafner, the stadium announcer for Mainz 05, the local professional team, turned up to do the MC honours and the evening turned out very nicely, with Germany stuffing beating the Poles 2:0.

And a good time was had by all.

Apart from the Poles, that is…

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