Quite a day Tuesday - it went from dodging one bullet and being faced with another straight away, here's how the day went.

Tuesday 22nd May - journey Leigh Sinton - Birmingham Airport - Munich - Trieste - Ljubljana - Novo Mesto - Ljubljana

Estimated journey time : 20 hours

Alarm rang at 4.15am, get up, grab the lunch pack from the fridge and head to the airport. Big accident on the M5, 'luckily' South-bound so I was OK to drive to the airport. BULLET 1 DODGED!!

Get in to the bag drop queue - cheery Lufthansa person stands there to check my boarding pass and says 'You are OK to go' - next person is not so lucky as the flight to Frankfurt has been cancelled, mine to Munich is OK. BULLET 2 DODGED!!

Two and half hours to 'kill' at Munich Airport - comfortable benches so I lay down and catch some rest. Flight seems to be on time and we board the coach to take us to the plane, but we stand there for no reason for over 30 minutes - before getting to the plane which had just passed an un-scheduled check on something. BULLET 3 DODGED!!

Get the rental car, buy a Slovenian 'vignette' and drive to the hotel in Ljubljana - needed to call the owner to let me in the room/get the key. Took a good while as their mobile didn't work - wasted 20 minutes!!

Game in Novo Mesto starts in little over an hour - drive should take 35 minutes, except that my little rental car can't really cope with the 80 mile speed limit :-) All goes well and I should arrive with 25 minutes to spare - but disaster, on the narrow roads a big accident earlier and traffic grinds to a stand-still. Time wasted 23 minutes.. still BULLET 4 DODGED!!

Sat-Nav is being kind and the address is correct for the venue in Novo Mesto - but parking is a nightmare. I end up parking in someones back garden .. but seems like everyone else is doing likewise. Run through the pouring rain, friendly and helpful door-staff direct me in and I get the cameras out and start shooting - with 15 seconds to go until the game tips-off! BULLET 5 DODGED!!

Rest of the day goes well - photographing the game is great, catch up with Sasu Salin after the game, drive back to Ljubljana and finish editing the videos/pictures. Clock passes midnight - I've been awake for 20 hours, WITHOUT energy drinks and crash down to get some sleep.. Good day of work behind me and couple of thousand miles travelled and one game photographed.. it's all in the days work for me!