China - Day 678

Full day at work on Saturday - very cold - traveled between 4 different schools today. Stayed up really late last night to see the World Cup draw, so suffered a bit partly as a result. We knew we had two pairs of tickets but we didnt know which teams we would be seeing. Now know that we will be at the Germany v Mexico game in Moscow June 17th soon after the tournament opens before taking the train a couple of days later to Kazan for the Spain v Iran game June 20th. Then we will fly back to Harbin (with airport-based stopovers in Dubai and Beijing). Staying 6 nights in Russia in total so we will be able to see the opening England game on the TV while we are still in Moscow. There is a possibility we could get to see that game in Volgograd but it is 12 hours away from Moscow by train and we will have to see if we can get tickets........