Being in Portugal for Euro 2016 Part I: A Welshman in Lisbon for Portugal vs Wales, the Semi Final.
Six months ago I booked tickets to the NOS Alive festival Lisbon for July, and I'd scheduled it so we'd arrive in Lisbon a day early so we could actually see some of the city before the festival started. As it turned out Wales, incredibly, had got through to the Euro 2016 semi-final! And it would take place on our first night in Lisbon... against, you guessed it, Portugal! I could not have planned it any better if I'd tried...