By way of an update from your correspondent in Turkey. I have had several beers tonight and some cocktails of various descriptions and I DID NOT bump into him at any point so I suspect that picture is a fake and he is in Brighton.
I happened to wake up at 6.15 local time so got up and put the towels out. A few lengths of the pool and now heading off for breakfast waiting for England to wake up so I can start winding up my best mate who is a Leeds fan who loves rutter.
My grandad was from near Lviv which was in Poland at the time but after the war went into what is now Ukraine as part of the deal with Stalin. Maybe I should get into a debate with them about whether my grandad was in more danger when he fled the Nazis or the soviets (he spoke a few languages so...
I am currently in Turkey. I have not understood a word anyone has said about anything really so I have nothing to add apart from last years Albion + towel looks nice if I manage to beat the Russians to a sun bed.