Sunday, 7 October 2007

another short vid

video from "the game"

More vids from the day

more vids from the day

video from before and durinfg the

Quarter finals




The big part of coming to London in Oct was to see the All Blacks hopefully bring home the World Cup.
Not since 1987 had we managed to do it, and this year looked like the time.
I went to Cardiff and met up with Zane, we had a great beginning to the day as we watched the brits defeat the Aussies (working on the assumption that playing Aussie in the Semi was harder than the Brits, you know what they say about making assumptions...... you make an ass out of u and mption)



The city was incredibly filled with thousands of French and Kiwi supporters all making noise and chanting, the streets closed to traffic as the punters all made there way towards the Millenium Stadium.
I had always thought the Caketin was well placed for the Wellington public to access, but the stadium in Cardiff is superb, it is an easy walk from almost any part of the city and is amazing to sit in.
The atmosphere and noise inside the stadium was incredible. `the roof fully closes and the sound reverberates back and forth.

I was sitting almost at the halfway, about two metres from the all black subs! Surrounded by crazy French chanting "Alle le Bleu"
The game is a blur, you watched the action almost like it was on super slo motion, the unravelling of the plan, the missed tackles, the mistakes. It was as if it didnt matter what the AB's tried nothing could deny the French today.
In the end a very sad end to the World Cup for our team, a sad evening in Wales on what should have been a step towards something greater.

Now to support anyone against England!!!!!

Tuesday, 2 October 2007

How many days has it been?

I can only say sorry if you have been to this site over the last month hoping to hear/see where ive been next.
Im not going to bore you with the reasons why i havent updated it but i will give a precis of what has gone on.
Phew
Since Sept 9th
I stayed in PP until the 14th Sept (leaving was much harder than i had thought it would be and Cambodia is very present inmy thinking each day)
I arrived in Bangkok on the 15thg after a crazy 13hr ride on a clapped out bus! (you would have assumed after travelling all over SE Asia for nearly six months i would have understood the difficulties in bussing from PP to Bangkok, but no!)
The flight which was available $100 compared to the bus$15 seemed any easy choice at the end of travelling, but..... the flight took 40 minutes! something i didnt think to hard over! Doh!
With no small bills (in the provinces $20 US is a note that causes problems when you try to but water and food!)
So i was on a bus for too many hours, tired and sore as we rolled into Bangkok in the middle of a tropical monsoon.
Spent 4 days in Bangkok
Have to say i enjoyed the city more this time (culture shock seems to have wiped me out when i arrived here at the start of my trip!)
Bartered for clothes, got staunch with a tuktuk as he tried to rip me off,it ws all fun as i approached the next part of my trip....So on the 18th i left and caught a longhaul flight to `london........and the World Cup