Roy Hodgson looked like any other tourist when he took a luxury cruise down the River Seine.
England manager Hodgson and his assistant Ray Lewington enjoyed in the scenery, gazing up at the Eiffel Tower on a gloriously hot day in Paris.
All very nice, but elsewhere last Wednesday afternoon in the French capital, Iceland - potentially the Three Lions ' next opponents in the last-16 round of the Euros - were playing.
Their match against Austria was beamed into the England team hotel and Hodgson returned in time from his day trip to watch it. But it is hardly the same.
Sadly, that just about summed up Hodgson’s Euro 2016 - a comedy of errors ending in English football’s most humiliating result of all time . And that from a man who had overseen the nation's worst World Cup finals campaign two years ago.
After restoring some pride by leading England to ten straight wins in qualifying, Hodgson fell into familiar traps.
From picking half-fit players to ridiculous pampering at the team hotel, even giving their silly lion mascot its own accreditation, it shows Hodgson lost sight of what got them there in the first place.
While Hodgson and Lewington were on their cruise, five other members of England staff - including Gary Neville and technical scout Andy Scoulding - did go to the Stade de France to watch Iceland play .
And Neville’s reaction to their last-kick winner told its own story.
He jumped to his feet and celebrated wildly, punching the air, believing England's place in the quarter-finals was secure as Iceland were easier opponents than the other possibility, Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal.
The scouting report compiled by Neville and the rest focused on the Icelandic full-backs being major weaknesses.
But their joint boss Lars Lagerback laughed when he heard and said: “That’s what Portugal thought.” (Iceland drew 1-1 with Portugal in their first group game).
Going into the tournament, England's goal-scoring was a reason for optimism. That turned out to be an illusion.
Hodgson's plans were thrown into disarray after losing Arsenal forward Danny Welbeck to injury shortly before the squad was due to be named.
He never really found the right balance or a replacement to make his favoured 4-3-3 system work.
And in one training session, his players managed just nine goals from 47 attempts.
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Harry Kane had gone from Premier League Golden Boot winner just weeks before to not being able to hit a barn-door.
England's players complained the training in Chantilly was dull and Hodgson’s use of shadow play in sessions was repetitive - and it wasn't solving that goal-scoring problem either.
There was resentment that, despite his woeful form at the finals, Kane seemed to escape criticism while Raheem Sterling was singled out for stick from the fans.
When Sterling was brought back into the starting XI for the Iceland game, a question to Wayne Rooney was planted in his pre-match press conference to encourage the England captain to talk up the Manchester City forward, because other members of the squad feared the his confidence was shot.
Hodgson had vowed not to pick half-fit players when it came to naming his squad. But then did it anyway.
He turned to Jack Wilshere at half-time against Iceland, but the Arsenal midfielder was miles away from being match-fit after missing nearly all of this past season through injury. Kane again looked fatigued.
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And the veteran manager's team selections were all over the place.
When he made six changes for the final group game against Slovakia, captain Rooney only discovered he had been rested when the team was read out. The record goal-scorer had been desperate to play every game.
Similarly, Hodgson looked surprised when Rooney started taking corners rather than Kane.
The manager was infuriated every time he was asked why the Spurs centre-forward was taking the set-pieces. But it seems the players disagreed with his choice as well.
Off the pitch, too, there were bizarre issues arising.
Some players were prevented from talking publicly when they specifically wanted to.
Dele Alli, for example, enjoys engaging with the media but was gagged.
Sterling did not speak at a press conference either.
And in keeping with the paranoia, those players who did talk were banned from discussing the games of darts they used to pass time at their luxury hotel hotel — a place where some members of FA staff were not even allowed to eat with the squad.
There were petty rules for hotel employees too — they were only permitted to work at the hotel during the Euros if they had been part of its staff for at least a year.
But ultimately, all those issues would have been forgiven had England succeeded on the pitch.
Instead, the pressure had been mounting on Hodgson from the FA hierarchy, not least after the six changes made for the critical group clash with Slovakia.
Pre-preparing his resignation statement - as had obviously been done - ahead of the knockout game with Iceland suggested that they feared the worst.
At least on that occasion, Hodgson was well prepared.