A Day for the parents

We left the coaches to it today and most of the supporters took the train to Genoa.  A lovely historic city with many alleyways, bars, shops and historic buildings.   We are still having problems with our mobile phones in that those of us on Vodafone are unable to ring out.  The vodafone shop in Italy was very unhelpful - thinking of taking this us with the European Court of Human Rights as this is interferring with our "right to family life" in that we cannot contact our two sons to see if they are coping with the strain of having no parental influence in their lives!!!!!  The other countries teams are now arriving in our hotel - Canada, Italy and South Africa have entered the building and our poor little Italian waiter, and Russian waitress are run even more ragged.  Tomorrow is the opening ceremony and we understand that at the swimming pool the decorations and flags are going up.