Don't want to go home - in Bruges
Don't want to go home, indeed.
As the song says, this is certainly the 'best trip'.
It was not just the result in Bruges, but the whole shebang.
It's doubtful we shall see it's like again, or at least for a very long time.
Speaking to some fans afterwards, they were equating it to Wembley and the Carling Cup final up there in the ranks of fondest Blues memories.
I wouldn't go that far personally, but I get the drift.
Before the football, let's deal with the other stuff.
Undoubtedly there was plenty of trepidation about Birmingham City's visit to Bruges among the Belgians.
With 5,450 tickets sold and probably another 2,000 or so as it turned out milling around the medieval city and beyond, just to be part of the occasion, they feared carnage.
The front page of one local newspaper carried a picture of a water cannon with a headline to the effect 'Zulu Army, we are ready for you' the day before the Europa League tie.
At the pre-match media conference I was asked by Belgian television to do an interview and the third question I was asked was would the people of Bruges be safe?
I replied that with so many people flocking to a city there would inevitably be some incidents caused by drink - like on any Saturday night down Broad Street, for example - but to suggest full scale riots, looting and pillaging was incorrect.
Blues fans, I explained, had waited 50 years to follow their team in Europe and were coming for the experience, the football and to make friends.
The policing was sensible and so were the bar owners. Respect works both ways and the scenes in the Market Square on match day, where most fans congregated, were good-natured.
There was an impromptu game of keep-uppy/head tennis when someone lobbed a football into the masses and even when the ball pinged off the top of the stature of Jan Breydel and Pieter de Coninck, Bruges' revered freedom-fighters of the 14th century, the police just smiled.
In fact, there was one funny incident when the ball bounced over to where the horse and carriages, that ferry tourists around, were stationed.
One of the lady drivers was a bit miffed and handed the ball straight to a policeman in expectation that he would administer a ticking off.
Instead, he looked down at the ball, shrugged and volleyed it back into the crowd to great cheers - 'ave it!
Around the ground itself it was lockdown. There were roadblocks, riot vans, water cannons, horses and police in full battle dress.
When Tim Easthope - our award-winning photographer who took the pictures on this blog - and I drove down the main road towards the Jay Breydel Stadion, we were pulled over by one officer, who spotted the British number plate.
'Don't go down there, there's a hooligan pub and they will smash your car up, even if you are driving by'. Lovely.
Inside the ground, the atmosphere was electric.
In about 25 years of doing this job, I have never heard such a relentless noise from an away Blues following than I did in that first-half.
It was incessant, with absolutely no let up.
When the 23rd minute came, the applause for Francois Sterchele, the Bruges favourite who died in a car crash in 2008, was moving.
Belgians around where I was sitting in the press box nodded their heads in approval and clapped the Blues fans - and it was the whole section - for taking part.
Because of the way the match panned out as well, and the dramatic climax of Chris Wood's winning goal in the 10th minute of stoppage-time, I said to my friends afterwards that it was the kind of occasion all those Blues fans could have done with sitting where I was to see and hear themselves and it was the kind of occasion I wished I was sitting where they were.
To the football, and another away game - and another come from behind win.
Make no mistake, this was a fantastic result, and deserved.
Bruges had lost just one of 17 games this season, no English club had defeated them at their ground and there were unbeaten in 14 at home.
Chris Hughton got a fair bit of stick on Twitter for making six changes. Some felt he had 'disrespected' the travelling support.
It's a tough one for Hughton as he is trying to juggle the demands of the Championship and Europe as evenhandedly as possible.
He said afterwards: "I was very comfortable making the changes and I didn't feel in any way that it lessened the quality that we had in the side. I knew they could do a good job."
Although the way Blues began, the alterations did seem to have an affect as Blues just were not with it. They were slow to settle and find their feet. They were too passive and allowed Bruges to play all too easily.
It was important that they didn't crumble after Joseph Akpala opened the scoring in the third minute and gradually they recovered.
Keith Fahey and Guirane N'Daw got a foothold, and the latter grew in stature as it went on.
Chris Burke caused problems on the right - Bruges ended up substituting their left-back and left winger - and Wade Elliott was a firefly menace.
With the ceaseless backing from the away end (and this should not be underestimated for the extra lift it provides) Blues did what they often do under Hughton: they took the game to the opposition, and had them on the back foot.
After David Murphy scored a poacher's goal, sneaking in on the blind side of a dozing defence, Bruges were rattled.
Other opportunities went begging and although the second-half was more even, Nikola Zigic headed wide when unmarked in the 59th minute.
The horrible injury to Pablo Ibanez could easily have thrown Blues off focus.
Akpala headed his cheek with a real thump and Pablo was unconscious before he hit the floor, his head landing hard against the turf.
It took so long to remove him from the pitch because Blues medical team, led by physio George Cooper and club doctor Mike Stone, insisted that correct procedure was followed.
Cooper lay prone behind Pablo and dug his thumbs underneath his jaw to ensure his tongue, that was to the back of his throat, was moved forward and didn't obstruct breathing. Pablo was making a snoring sound when Cooper got there.
Bruges wanted to hoist Pablo onto a stretcher but Blues insisted on their own spinal board and the Spaniard, thankfully, was well enough to fly home on the same evening without hospital treatment.
N'Daw in particular was affected by the sight of Pablo's motionless body, the oxygen mask and neck brace.
He may be a big brute of a man, but he is an emotional character and when I spoke to him afterwards he admitted he was in shock and thought the injury more serious.
I think most of us expected the game to peter out in the seven minutes plus stoppage-time that remained after such a disturbing scene.
But no. Blues don't do it that way under Hughton. They have been strong finishers, they are programmed to go forward.
Elliott whistled a shot just wide and then Marlon King turned provider for Wood to dart quickly in front of his marker to bash the ball into the roof of the net.
What a moment and what a reaction. The Blues end exploded in incredulous joy.
They had done it again in Europe after Maribor and now qualification to the knock-out phase has become a distinct possibility.
Should Blues achieve that feat, then it would represent one of the football stories of the season considering all that has gone on since the Carling Cup final.
The players were buzzing as much as the fans as they made their way to the coach for the flight home.
Europe, and the enthusiastic backing, tends to get their juices going. Everyone has bought into it and is enjoying the best trip they have ever been on.
Blues kitman, Denis Butler, a lifelong Blues follower who has endured too many club lows he cares to remember, summed up the feeling as he wandered past the mixed zone, where the media wait to collar players for interviews: 'One of the great nights', he said, shaking his head as he went.
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Colin Tattum - Mail man Colin Tattum's view of what's going on at Birmingham City FC.
Great to see and hear that people enjoyed their Bruge trip.
I do wonder how many of our supporters went who, last year, took the "hope we get knocked out" attitude against Rochadale. I hope plenty did because perhaps they'll finally learn that trips like last week's start there.
Countless times we've thrown away our cup games for want of a better attitude on and off the pitch. So come on folks, when F.A. Cup 3rd round comes it's not a waste of time, it could be the first step to another adventure!
partly agree Maureen, but staying in the prem was the goal especially in early rounds of the cups, which i think was realistic considering i have waited since 1967 (1st match) to see us win something and seen many disappointing semi's and 1/4's and even a final loss on pens.
so you can't say we haven't tried in the past but we have always been let down.
though now you can stuff the league (as long as we stay up) let's go for it in europe at least till xmas and see how far we can go and have no regrets that we put out a weak squad.