The day after the day after July 11, 2006

In all I went to 22 matches, including the first game and the Final and all England’s games. I photographed 27 of the 32 nations in action at all 12 venues. I saw yet more games ‘live’ in the big screens that complemented the Fans Fest programme (THE great success of Germany 2006). I made two picture montages for the BBC, did a picture-essay for Four Four Two magazine, made a documentary film with a crew from Cumbria, visited Austria, France and Belgium as well as driving 7,000 miles around Germany. I visited 3 concentration camps: Belsen, Dachau and Buchenwald as well as Luchenwald prisoner-of war camp where my (R.A.F.) uncle and 150,000 other Europeans were held until war’s end. I made friends and fell in love with Germany.