Vets World Cup - Hong Kong 2008

Day One
As Robin Williams said in Good Morning Vietnam, "It's hot, damn hot!" It's also 80% humidity which makes you embarrassingly moist all the time.Arrived at midnight to a spectacular show of lights and cityscape - just the normal Hong Kong and Kowloon. We have had a training session for two hours today which was a bit different from Bella on a Saturday afternoon - which I am missing by the way!I hope to keep you up-to-date with our results, no matter how bad they are, over the next ten days. Our first game is against the 2006 World Champions, the Germans - who have been here for a week already at a training camp. We had heard that the English are doing altitude training but then discovered that they were on the 52nd floor in their hotel.The Sports Complex, which includes a racecourse, rubgy pitches, football pitches, hockey pitches, etc, is called Happy Valley - a good name for a place for the over 60s and over 65s, don't you think?Some of our squad have still to arrive - our first game isn't until Saturday. They'll find it hard to acclimatise in a day, but here's hoping. Speak to you soon.Alan Bryce