Gareth has left us once again, after 5 erm… typically Gareth type days. I think I escaped lightly but top marks to Philippe who kept up and managed to go to work everyday. So what happened? Well, if you’ve been reading, you’ll see that we had a steak last Wednesday. Thursday we went down to Kitty of Shays to watch the England v Trinidad game. A much more entertaining game than England’s first, and quite tense until (the aptly named) Crouch finally put one away. There were a fair few of us there, including a couple of random English lads we got talking to and three Bristolian girls who Gareth met on the plane. I’ll leave you to read Philippe’s comments about them…
Starting at 6pm, the England victory and the afore mentioned random chap buying a round of whiskey shots ensured that the night ended up quite messy. We moved onto the bar where Ana works after Kitty’s where Ana supplied us with some great tapas, chocolate and of course several more cañas.
A tough day in the office followed on Friday. Thankfully James offered to covered my dreaded LCT shift leaving me to take it nice and easy. Philippe nursed his head by configuring his web sites to be updatable via his mobile while I read up about the Indian Caste system and continued to work on the Rickshaw Run website. That’s the joy of working in support. Some days everything happens and you don’t stop for a minute. Other days you have next to no work.
A siesta in the afternoon saw me in a better state and ready to go an meet up with the others for the customary curry in the Taj. We had a good turn out with 12 people turning up to see Gareth.
I found myself discussing our round the world route with him and ended up being given a very thorough run down of what to see in Australia and when. He even drew me a fantastic map (on the back of the menu) as a reference. This left Espe and I even more excited about the trip… Time to buy those tickets.
Saturday was a bit of a write off. I was very tired and for some reason my head hurt somewhat. We cleaned up the flat and watched a bit of TV. I ended up watching a program about the 9/11 terrorist attacks arguing that everything that happened was carried out by the American government. It seems a bit too much to be believable, but I must say it was very, very convincing. Take a look for yourself if you’ve got the bandwidth and an hour to spare:
Loose Change 9-11 : Alex Jones Conspiracy
The football theme, understandably, continued. We had Brazil v Australia on Sunday. Most of us siding with Australia due to Gareth’s current residence and the fact that the final score line didn’t reflect how well the Aussies played.
Monday saw a group of us meet up in Chill bill for Gareth’s last night and the Spain v Tunisia game. A great result for Spain at 3-1, but it was very tense as Tunisia scored first and it took a very long time for Spain to equalise.
With Espe happy with Monday’s result, it was down to Jon and I to fight it out on Tuesday in the England v Sweden game. As it happens a good game to watch and a nice final result for both teams. 2 – 2. We both go through, and we (England) don’t have to play the Germans… yet.
Anyway, that’s about the end of this big post, representative of rather a big weekend. Check out the photos on Philippe’s site!