So, that was a brilliant game of football last night. Australia beat Canada 4-0 and proceed to the knockout rounds of the Women’s World Cup in top position in their group. This means we most likely avoid the strong England team in the first knockout game.
It was an amazing game, against one of the strongest teams in world football, as Canada are the reigning Olympic champions. It could have been 5-0 too, with another goal being overturned by one of the silliest applications of the offside rule ever seen.
The next game, probably against Denmark, is on Monday next week. That should be one to watch too.
Today, I finished off my class plan for the new ethics week, on alternate history.
And I ticked off a major thing: booking flights to Rome in November. My wife and I have looked at the options to visit Helsinki for the ISO Photography standards meeting there. We want to extend the trip to have a vacation too, and thought Rome would be suitable, as we like Italy, and it won’t be as cold as northern Europe in November. I checked flight costs for trips:
- Sydney-Singapore-Helsinki; Helsinki-Rome; Rome-Singapore-Sydney
- Sydney-Singapore-Rome; Rome-Helsinki; Helsinki-Singapore-Sydney
- Sydney-Singapore-Rome; Rome-Helsinki; Helsinki-Rome; Rome-Singapore-Sydney
The first two are triangular options, while the last one we basically just get a return ticket to Rome, and then book a return flight from Rome to Helsinki. The way the dates work out we could have two nights in Rome before going on to Helsinki, and then a week in Rome after leaving Finland. It turns out that although this is more flights, it’s actually about 20% cheaper, because of the way that return tickets are costed cheaper than two one-way fares. So that’s what we went with, and I booked the Sydney-Rome and return legs tonight. Tomorrow I’ll look at booking the Finland flights.
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Yeah, those were brilliant goals. I only watched the review of the game as the games are now during my workday as my vacation ended, and I don’t really feel like watching the games at work.
Let’s see how Australia does in the knockout games! I haven’t watched the games that much but I’m kind of cheering for Japan – they finished the group phase with three wins and eleven goals scored to zero against them. The 4-0 win of the Spain match was brilliant.