BBC here for the World Cup in big double decker bus

The BBC is using a white double decker bus to help bring its coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa to life.

BBC television, radio and online journalists are travelling up to 4,000 miles on the bus across South Africa - finding out what the tournament means to South Africans and visiting tourist destinations and unusual locations along the way.

While the BBC’s Match of The Day team is based in Cape Town, the bus aims to travel via every World Cup venue city during its journey - visiting each host city on a match day to immerse itself in the live 2010 FIFA World Cup experience.

The bus departed from Cape Town on the opening day of the World Cup on 11 June and after travelling the length and breadth of the country – will arrive in Johannesburg for the final one month later. Equipped with a mobile television studio on the top deck, the bus will enable the journalists on board to broadcast into programme highlights and at half-time during live games from a range of interesting locations. Dan Walker, who presents the BBC’s Saturday lunchtime football show Football Focus, and TV presenter Rob Walker are on the bus presenting for television, while Scottish journalist and broadcaster Colin Paterson will report for Radio 5 Live.

The bus has been showcasing many of South Africa’s stunning sights and tourist attractions. With Hermanus being one of it's many high-lights, by going and viewing Great White Shark cage diving, Whale watching and enjoying wine tasting at the Hermanus Wine Valley.

Earlier this week Dan Walker visited Addo Elephant National Park, near Port Elizabeth - a popular tourist attraction in the Eastern Cape. Home to more than 450 elephants, the park boasts one of the densest African elephant populations on earth.

BBC sports journalist Paul Fletcher, who is also travelling on the bus, said: “From influential charity projects, regenerated townships and out-of-the way villages to wildlife parks, sites of historical importance and FIFA fan fests, the bus will enable us to search for the soul of the nation as Africa hosts its first World Cup.”

Courtesy of Percy Tours - www.percytours.com

and it's associated sites - www.hermanusactivities.net / and www.xploratours.co.za

World Cup - what a fab first few days of action :-))

The excitement just keeps getting bigger and bigger by the day (if thats possible, cos i thought it was already at fever-pitch :-))))

Yes, ladies and gents South Africa is completely boiling over with football excitement

The first 3 days have been amazing and a huge carnival atmosphere has gripped the whole country - the opening music festival on the 10th June was enjoyed and attended by over 30,000 people, while being broadcast live on SA tv; the opening scenes and match have been very positively reported in the SA media (and I hope the same is true for the worlds media :-))

South Africa (Bafana Bafana) against Mexico was a rip roarer - with SA scoring the 1st goal after 59 minutes and what a screamingly excellent goal is was too; we thought we had it in the bag, with loads of JOY, but Mexico came back with an equaliser after about 79 minutes; the rest of the game was frantic, with each team trying to get another goal - but it ended up 1-1.

France vs. Uruguay game was a non-event and ended 0-0; which places both SA and Mexico TOP of this group - interesting.....Korea did a great job of beating Greece 2-0; Argentina gave Nigeria the run-around winning 1-0; meaning Korea are top of this group, Argentina are 2nd

England started very fast against USA but were unlucky to draw after a silly goaly fluffer 1-1.

Slovenia beat Algeria 1-0 in a good paced match; Ghana beat Serbia 1-0, meaning that Ghana are the only African country to have won their 1st match (Cameroon play against Japan on 14th June, so lets see what happens there) - and Germany gave Australia a right royal whopping, by winning 4-0.

FAMOUS people arriving in SA to watch the football grows by the minute - reportedly here already are - Roman Abramovich, Donald Trump, Prince Albert of Monaco, Naomi Campbell and John Travolta jetted here in his own 747 with wife Kelly Preston.

More World Cup info, when we have it - enjoy the games......we sure are :-))

Cheers - Percy and Ronel from Percy Tours - www.percytours.com - Designer Tours of Hermanus, Cape Town and the Western Cape province, South Africa.

Schedule of ALL the World Cup matches

Here is the list of ALL the football games for the World Cup, when, where and who -

Happy reading and enjoy every second of it - we will be :-)))

1 -11-06 16:00 - Johannesburg - Soccer City Stadium - South Africa v Mexico
2 -11-06 20:30 - Cape Town - Green Point Stadium - Uruguay v France
3 -12-06 16:00 - Johannesburg - Ellis Park Stadium - Argentina v Nigeria
4 - 12-06 13:30 - Nelson Mandela Bay - Port Elizabeth - Korea Republic v Greece
5 - 12-06 20:30 - Rustenburg - Royal Bafokeng Stadium - England v USA
6 - 13-06 13:30 - Polokwane - Peter Mokaba Stadium - Algeria v Slovenia
7 - 13-06 20:30 - Durban - Durban Stadium - Germany v Australia
8 - 13-06 16:00 - Tshwane / Pretoria - Loftus Versfeld - Serbia v Ghana
9 - 14-06 13:30 - Johannesburg - Soccer City Stadium - Netherlands v Denmark
10 - 14-06 16:00 - Mangaung / Bloemfontein - Free State - Japan v Cameroon
11 - 14-06 20:30 - Cape Town - Green Point Stadium - Italy v Paraguay
12 - 15-06 13:30 - Rustenburg - Royal Bafokeng Stadium - New Zealand v Slovakia
13 - 15-06 16:00 - Nelson Mandela Bay / Port Elizabeth - Côte d Ivoire v Portugal
14 - 15-06 20:30 - Johannesburg - Ellis Park Stadium - Brazil v Korea DPR
15 - 16-06 13:30 - Nelspruit - Mbombela Stadium - Honduras v Chile
16 - 16-06 16:00 - Durban - Durban Stadium - Spain v Switzerland
17 - 16-06 20:30 - Tshwane / Pretoria - Loftus Versfeld - South Africa v Uruguay
18 - 17-06 20:30 - Polokwane - Peter Mokaba Stadium - France v Mexico
19 - 17-06 16:00 - Mangaung / Bloemfontein - Free State - Greece v Nigeria
20 - 17-06 13:30 - Johannesburg - Soccer City Stadium - Argentina v Korea Republic
21 - 18-06 13:30 - Nelson Mandela Bay / Port Elizabeth - Germany v Serbia
22 - 18-06 16:00 - Johannesburg - Ellis Park Stadium - Slovenia v USA
23 - 18-06 20:30 - Cape Town - Green Point Stadium - England v Algeria
24 - 19-06 16:00 - Rustenburg - Royal Bafokeng Stadium - Ghana v Australia
25 - 19-06 13:30 - Durban - Durban Stadium - Netherlands v Japan
26 - 19-06 20:30 - Tshwane / Pretoria - Loftus Versfeld - Cameroon v Denmark
27 - 20-06 13:30 - Mangaung / Bloemfontein - Free State - Slovakia v Paraguay
28 - 20-06 16:00 - Nelspruit - Mbombela Stadium - Italy v New Zealand
29 - 20-06 20:30 - Johannesburg - Soccer City Stadium - Brazil v Côte d Ivoire
30 - 21-06 13:30 - Cape Town - Green Point Stadium - Portugal v Korea DPR
31 - 21-06 16:00 - Nelson Mandela Bay / Port Elizabeth - Chile v Switzerland
32 - 21-06 20:30 - Johannesburg - Ellis Park Stadium - Spain v Honduras
33 - 22-06 16:00 - Rustenburg - Royal Bafokeng Stadium - Mexico v Uruguay
34 - 22-06 16:00 - Mangaung / Bloemfontein - Free State - France v South Africa
35 - 22-06 20:30 - Durban - Durban Stadium - Nigeria v Korea Republic
36 - 22-06 20:30 - Polokwane - Peter Mokaba Stadium - Greece v Argentina
37 - 23-06 16:00 - Nelson Mandela Bay / Port Elizabeth - Slovenia v England
38 - 23-06 16:00 - Tshwane / Pretoria - Loftus Versfeld - USA v Algeria
39 - 23-06 20:30 - Johannesburg - Soccer City Stadium - Ghana v Germany
40 - 23-06 20:30 - Nelspruit - Mbombela Stadium - Australia v Serbia
41 - 24-06 16:00 - Johannesburg - Ellis Park Stadium - Slovakia v Italy
42 - 24-06 16:00 - Polokwane - Peter Mokaba Stadium - Paraguay v New Zealand
43 - 24-06 20:30 - Rustenburg - Royal Bafokeng Stadium - Denmark v Japan
44 - 24-06 20:30 - Cape Town - Green Point Stadium - Cameroon v Netherlands
45 - 25-06 16:00 - Durban - Durban Stadium - Portugal v Brazil
46 - 25-06 16:00 - Nelspruit - Mbombela Stadium - Korea DPR v Côte d Ivoire
47 - 25-06 20:30 - Tshwane / Pretoria - Loftus Versfeld - Chile v Spain
48 - 25-06 20:30 - Mangaung / Bloemfontein - Free State - Switzerland v Honduras

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49 - 26-06 16:00 - Nelson Mandela Bay / Port Elizabeth - R16 - 1A v 2B
50 - 26-06 20:30 - Rustenburg - Royal Bafokeng Stadium - R16 - 1C v 2D
51 - 27-06 16:00 - Mangaung / Bloemfontein - Free State - R16 - 1D v 2C
52 - 27-06 20:30 - Johannesburg - Soccer City Stadium - R16 - 1B v 2A
53 - 28-06 16:00 - Durban - Durban Stadium - R16 - 1E v 2F
54 - 28-06 20:30 - Johannesburg - Ellis Park Stadium - R16 - 1G v 2H
55 - 29-06 16:00 - Tshwane / Pretoria - Loftus Versfeld - R16 - 1F v 2E
56 - 29-06 20:30 - Cape Town - Green Point Stadium - R16 - 1H v 2G

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57 - 02-07 16:00 - Nelson Mandela Bay / Port Elizabeth - QF - W53 v W54
58 - 02-07 20:30 - Johannesburg - Soccer City Stadium - QF - W49 v W50
59 - 03-07 16:00 - Cape Town - Green Point Stadium - QF - W52 v W51
60 - 03-07 20:30 - Johannesburg - Ellis Park Stadium - QF - W55 v W56

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61 - 06-07 20:30 - Cape Town - Green Point Stadium - SF- W58 v W57
62 - 07-07 20:30 - Durban - Durban Stadium - SF - W59 v W60

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63 - 10-07 20:30 - Nelson Mandela Bay / Port Elizabeth - 3rd/4th Place

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64 - 11-07 20:30 - Johannesburg - Soccer City Stadium - Final

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Arrivals for the World Cup 2010 South Africa

Today - 3rd June 2010

Arriving today, are the England national football side for their Rustenberg base-camp for the World Cup.

They are, so far, the 8th national team to arrive in South Africa.

More info when we have it :-)) :-)))