Andrew Penman says: Time to get a little carried away as Wales take Euro 2016 by storm

The prospect of trips to Accrington and Grimsby, though not without their own charms, just can’t quite match up to Bordeaux and Toulouse.

Yes, two weeks in, I’m fully immersed in the Euro 2016 bubble and quite happy to stay here for another fortnight thank you very much.

Monday night in Toulouse was one of those occasions where you had to keep reminding yourself to take it all in, savour every moment and really revel in a truly magnificent performance from Wales.

It really was a privilege to be inside the Stadium de Toulouse to witness what was surely one of the greatest nights in Welsh football history.

For once, when it really mattered on the biggest stage with the pressure on, Wales delivered as near to a perfect performance as you’re ever likely to see.

Admittedly Russia were pretty poor and it’s tempting to think that County – even with only half a squad – would have given them a good game.

But let’s not take anything away from Chris Coleman and his team – they’ve done the nation proud.

It was the kind of night where everything went right and it reminded me of the way England dismantled Holland at Euro ’96.

Younger readers may need to ask their dad about that game or possibly use Germany’s demolition of Brazil at the 2014 World Cup as a more recent point of reference.

England’s mauling of the Dutch was 20 years ago but there are certainly parallels.

An inspired Aaron Ramsey filled the Paul Gascoigne role, complete with the same bleached-blond hair, and Gareth Bale matched Alan Shearer’s feat of scoring in each of the three group games.

But England didn’t have a Neil Taylor moment – imagine Gary or Phil Neville scoring a goal as good as Taylor’s the other night, albeit at the second attempt.

Who knows? Maybe Wales could also get to experience the agony of a semi-final penalty shootout defeat to the Germans, or possibly hosts France in this instance.

Any football fan will know the temptation to get the wallchart out and start plotting who could beat who and who would face who in the coming weeks is almost impossible to resist.

We shouldn’t get too far ahead of ourselves – Wales could so easily crash out to Northern Ireland, Turkey or even Albania in Paris on Saturday.

But we can allow ourselves to get just a little bit carried away after Monday night.

That is what these big international tournaments are all about and it’s a feeling that we’ve been waiting 58 years to experience. We have to enjoy every moment.

Coleman’s men are now just one win away from matching the feats of Jimmy Murphy’s squad at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden.

Back then a little-known Brazilian kid called Pele sent Wales home in the quarter-finals, although there were only 16 teams to start with all those years ago.

If you’d offered Welsh fans an exit at the last-eight stage at the start of this tournament I guess most would have been more than happy with that.

But, after turning in the best display by any team in the tournament so far, this set of players have got the supporters dreaming of much more than that.

Thousands will be heading to Paris expecting another triumph and with Bale, Ramsey and Joe Allen in such fine form their team is capable of beating almost anyone on their day.

I’m certainly not predicting that Ashley Williams will be back in the capital lifting the trophy on July 10 but, after so many years of hurt, what’s the harm in dreaming?

The fans, who have charmed the locals in the streets, cafés and bars, and inspired their team so superbly inside the stadiums, deserve their moment in the sun.

And, whatever happens from now on, they’ll always have that perfect night in Toulouse.