I've arrived in Denmark! Had an interesting journey, leaving home at 4am on Thursday morning to meet at gatwick at 6. Our flight was a short one of 90mins. We arrived in Billund and then the adventure started. As all the countries were coming into different airports the tournament had only organised pick ups from the train station in Odense so we had to get there by public transport. First mode was a bus for about 40mins, then a train which was so busy we had to stand with our cases in the aisle. I was so glad our balls had been driven over by van, we would not have managed with all our balls!We finally arrived at Odense and were picked up and taken to the hotel. We decided to go to the bowl to have a look and some of us wanted to bowl a little, just to get used to the centre. I had drilled 2 new balls at the last minute so wanted to bowl with them. When we got to the centre the lanes had been dressed with the tournament patterns. We bowled for about and hour then had some dinner and went back to the hotel to get some rest ready for official practise.
Practise went really well for all of us. Due to the training camps we have had this year we are all far more prepared for this tournament than any other previously. We really benefitted from the practise time due to the skills we had learnt on the camps.
The doubles pairings are Jenny and Nicki in squad 1, Jemma and Jo in 2 and Lisa and I in 3.
I will let you know how the pairings finished up in the next post!
Zara
