My other football team

For the final time we wind our way down the hill from our eyrie in Brasov to the station. As you can see, the trains are a bargain at about 5.50 lei to the £, and are built sometimes for comfort but never for speed. At Bucharest we evade the posse of taxi drivers who refuse to use their meters and walk a couple of blocks to find an honest one. There are alternative forms of transport and while the underpass looks like a metro station it is what it is, an underpass with shops.

The balmy weather has returned but it's always a bittersweet feeling to be back in a place we like but knowing it's our last full day. There's an open-air World Press Photo exhibition, which is studiously ignored. And little corners of the city show contrasting places of worship: the predominant Orthodox practice and the surviving Jewish community.

Eleven days past and time to get back to Stansted. But the good news is that in the days to come, Romania win their first Euros 2024 match 3-0!Read more