A happy-go-lucky English rambler dude goes to New Zealand for a year. Here he interfaces with some of those he left behind and details his nefarious activities. Or summat.
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Friday, July 26, 2002
Well i'm still sat in the same internet bar only a day later. Had a quiet night in last night, with Emma and Phoebe, watching the Footy show in preparation for my trip to see my first Aussie Rules game this saturday, Hawthorn vs Brisbane.
I've spent the day looking round the venue for the game too, the MCG. The tram i was on going into town passed right by it, so i hopped off for a quick look round, and accidentally ended up on a tour of the stadium. As well as nosing round the various museums & halls of fame afterwards.
It's an impressive sight, although oddly doesn't look quite as big as you'd think for a ground that has a seated capacity of 97,000 (Cor). The tour was super-duper - we got onto the pitch, the commentators boxes, changing rooms and best of all, the little room all the England Cricket players get filmed in looking grumpy after having been got out during test matches. Foolishly i admitted being English, and the guide constantly reeled off anecdotes about how "We beat England by 45 runs in that year and oddly enough the same score 50 years later too", yadda yadda yadda. Not to mention loads of Bodyline stuff, "There's two side out there, and only one of them's playing Cricket!" - Oddly enough, a quote that could be applied to most of my own indoor cricket matches :o(
