UK, Singapore & Home

Friday 10th Nov - Home Sweet Home, even though it is 2:30am!










HSH



Wed 8th Nov: Arrived in Singapore around 2:30pm after a 13 hour flight from London, having to be at Heathrow 3 hours before the flight, we travelled for about 18 hours! We were pretty knackered but Bruce caught up with Simon at Clarke Quay and Brenda slept..

Tomorrow we fly to Perth, HSH, it will only be 8 hours of travel.

This is what the street looks like from the 53rd story at our hotel, Swissotel the Stamford.

Check out the topless bather in the swimming pool!










Tues 7th Nov: Spent the morning doing some last minute sight seeing before leaving London for Heathrow. Dropped in to see Liz & Phil at Buck House, but they had visitors and we couldn't wait so she missed out. Should get a note from her soon thanking us for the jar of Vegemite. Nice house though. Earles Court for lunch. Once your out of the city, food prices drop dramatically, by about 150% Our last day in UK, off to the airport at around 2:30pm to fly to Singapore. To our relief Singapore Airlines didn't slug us for excess, even though we had 61Kg's!

Mon 6th Nov: Sight seeing again, travelled around London on the "Tube" (Underground). It is an amazing service and most stations are located at all the tourist spots. During the day the wait for any train was only a couple of minutes.

Also visited the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, to witness the Harrison Clocks (H1-4) still ticking away is one of the highlights. The H1 clock sailed with Captain Cook, he's stopped, but not the H1.

You can travel from East to West in less than a second!

This is what it looks like on top of the London Eye, about 200m from the ground. In the evening, we had dinner in Piccadilly Circus and went to a West End theatre to enjoy Mumma Mia at the Prince of Wales Theatre. DC Rod Skase (Iain Fletcher) from the Bill played the leading part in the story - great show.

Sun 5th Nov: Spent the day on the hop on hop off bus, so far the weather has been clear, but VERY cold. Your shadow is about 4 metres at 1:00pm, the sun is setting around 4:30pm, so by about 2:00pm we were in the bottom of the bus out of the cold. Saw heaps though, all the usual tourist spots, Big Ben, House of Parliment, Buck Palace, Westminster Cathederal (ABC), Tower of London, Harrods (yep - got the tea towel and Harrods bag!) and Madame Tussauds - you just gota go!

Here we are in Baker Street with Sherlock, Madame Tussauds is the green dome in the background.

Sat 4th Nov: Not much happened today, drove from our hotel in Hayes to London which took about 4 hours, we were only 40Km's from the city but kept getting lost. The GPS didn't work to well in London. Arranged to drop the car off in London, but nobody told me that it had to be back by 1:oopm, so had to drive all the way back to Heathrow to drop it off. Not happy Jan.

Fri 3rd Nov: Left Bath after a quick tour and headed off the Hayes via Stonehenge.

We were aiming to get to Hayes before 5:00pm to airfrieght our extra case back. At this stage our three siutcases weighed 94 Kg's and excess baggage will cost us $AU40 per Kg. Sent 35Kg's

Managed to make it, but I nearly fell over when they gave me the bill - $AU409.00 bugger.

Rocks!

Thu 2 Nov: Left Plymouth late in the afternoon after meeting up with Wayne's aunty and headed for Bath. Bath is about the only city in England that didn't get the crap bombed out of them, so it was interesting to see buildings 500 to 600 years old. Bath was built by the Romans around 1200AD and gets it name from the Roman Bath built there over a hot spring.

Check out the low denisty housing! There's 15 chimneys on each stack.

Touring Ireland

Mon 23rd - Spent most off the day on the Hop on Hop off tour of Dublin with the mandatory stop at the Guniness Brewery - an wonderful experience, they brew 3 million pints of Guniness per day and export 70% of that! Weather fantastic but very cold, today's top 12 deg C......



Tomorrow we head to Northern Ireland then back to the south of Ireland.

Tues 24th - started to pack up for the rest of the tour of Ireland – the inevitable – we had to buy another suitcase for all the souvenirs!!! Went to pick up the car at Dublin airport and tried to give us a Corolla even though we had paid for a bigger car. The only other car was this flash all singing, all dancing new black sports Volvo, but had to knock it back because the cigarette lighter didn’t work, which was needed for our SatNav – bugger. Finally settled for a Ford Mondeo Station Wagon, how boring…..

Drove up to Northern Ireland for lunch at Enniskellin, checked out the broken castle and headed off to Sligo. The Irish scenery was really nice, helped by a fine day. Sligo is a post war town with no attractions at all, not even a B&B, and found this great little B&B (Crockets Inn) on the river at Ballina in Killah Bay next to the Black & White Pub which is around 350 years old, used to be a coach house.




Wed 25th – Full Irish breakfast and sat with an Irish travelling salesman (batteries) had had a great conversation. Checked out the ABC (Another Bloody Castle) and the sites and off to Castlebar and Westport. Tried to visit Galway, but the traffic was horrendous, U Turn & off to Limerick. On the way, stopped at a Inn in the middle of nowhere for quick cup coffee and tea, and chatted to the landlord, Jim. We asked him why the Northern Ireland & the Irish are separate – well, we really pushed his button. After about 40 minutes we made our excuses and left.



Jims Pub

Shortly after leaving Jim, still chatting away, now with himself, down came the rain, it bucketed down non stop and the viability down to a few hundred metres. Many parts of southern Ireland had severe flooding and brought most of the traffic on the motorways to a crawl. Abandoned our plans to visit Limerick and stayed at the Ach Na Sheen B&B in Tipperary, took us a LONG time to get there…..

Thu 26th – The Landlady from last nights B&B mapped out a route for us through some wonderful villages and scenery, then spending four hours driving through Kerry’s Ring (Ring of Kerry to the local’s), one of the highlights, stopping at a B&B in Killorglin. The room was huge, the landlord brought us cake and tea on arrival and was very keen to relieve me of my WCE shirt as he had connections in Perth and was familiar with the AFL code.
We dropped into the Manor House hotel on the way to dinner, 5 patrons in side, a bloke was by himself in the adjoining bar, wheezing, coughing and we think dying, and I’m sure one of the blokes at our bar was dead, didn’t move for 20 minutes! We renamed it High Care Hotel.



Ladies View around Kerry's Ring

Fri 27th – After breakfast, the Landlady, like yesterday, mapped out another tourist drive for us, through a mountain pass called Conner Pass, guaranteed that the views from the top would be breathtaking. Well the weather came in and when we were about 100m above ground level, we were in thick, thick, thick fog, and unable to turn around on the narrow track (called a road in Ireland), didn’t see a bloody thing. Finally arrived at a fishing village for lunch before heading off to Cork for the Jazz. The rain started again about one hour from Cork.



View from Conners Pass - FANTASTIC!

We arrived at the Rochester Park Hotel in Cork, best hotel so far, 4 star, huge place, 600 hundred odd rooms and all full because of the Jazz Festival. Decided to get some take away (or “take out” for the locals) for dinner – BIG mistake. Here we are in a strange place, it’s raining cats & dogs, traffic horrendous and it’s dark. We drove around for over and hour and a half, finally finding a fish & chip shop 1100 metres from the hotel. We ordered a fish and chip supper, thinking fish, chips, prawns etc, but what we got was quite different. The fish was put onto a piece of paper, covered in chips and then I reckon they pored half a litre of revolting mushy peas over the lot – yuk! Again, most of it ended up in the bin (read dunny) – tip – when in Ireland – DON’T order a F&C supper….

Sat 28th – Off to the Blarney Castle (ABC) to kiss the Blarney Stone. Gave the kissing a miss, but got to the top which was quite an effort! It was worth the climb to the top through the narrow circular staircases.



Blarney Stone is where the two bloke are

Spent the rest of the day at the Cork Jazz Festival in town, some great Big Bands, Jazz & Blues, all free and the Guinness at 4 euros a pint – bargain. In the evening, went to the local bar to watch the Gaelic football match between Australia & Ireland. All was going well until the last 90 seconds, so we slowly rolled up our Aussie flags and headed back to the hotel.



Cork Jazz Festival Program

Sun 29th – Woke up to rain and fog – well it is summer…. Dropped the car off at the airport but the flight from Cork to Bristol was delayed due to the fog, and this is at 3 in the afternoon! However, there was a Jazz Band playing at the airport. Rang Deric for his 25th birthday from the airport. At Bristol, we were picked up by Brian & Maureen (Wayne’s folk’s) and headed back to Plymouth where we arrived safely at around 7:30pm.

Mon 30th – At Brian & Maureen’s, finally a rest day – done nothing!, however, Bruce broke the bath – another story.

Touring the UK

Well - Internet sites are few and far between, especially in the places we've being staying in - so this is a catch up of our trip in the UK

Mon 16th - picked up the hire car - pretty flashy, a near new Toyota Avensis. Headed off to Aldergavenny in Wales, sightseeing on the way. Nice little place, bought 7 DVD's off T, a series called Sharpe, couldn't pronounce his name in Welsh, hence Mr T. We were pretty knackered after the weekend in Plymouth, and we both slept for 12 hours! We asked around if anybody knew where Llanndewi Breffi (I'm the only gay in the village you know) and where told to head north, which we did.





Tue 17th - Early start, off to Chester via Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow & Shrewsbury, getting to Chester around 5, back in the UK. Once we hit town, the traffic was so bad, it was a car park, still don't know why... it took nearly an hour to travel 2 Km's into town, so when we hit the roundabout, we turned around and headed for Ellesmere Port, which was full due to conferences and we were told to try the local golf club, it turned out to be pretty flash, but bloody expensive!



Golf Club, used to be a Mansion for some rich person...

Wed 18th - Finally found out where Llanndewi Breffi was, and headed south. Stopped at what we thought was the Pub where the series was filmed (Little Britain), only to be told that the actual Pub was in Buckingham Shire - Bugger! Anyway, had lunch and a long conversation with the Landlady. We then headed off to the Yorkshire Dales well - absolutely stunning! The scenery is unbelievable, the dry stone walls that divided the fields, the mountains, the green fields and the different livestock, fantastic, overnighted at Skipton.





Thu 19th - On the way to our overnight stop at Leyburn, we stopped at Askrigg and checked out the backdrops for the series of All Creatures Great and Small, Siegfried’s house and the Drovers Arms etc.



Siegfrieds House, All Creachers Great & Small


Also visited the RAF museum as Cosford - pretty impressive....



Me-613B - First Jet Fighter WW2

Fri 20th - Headed of to Thirsk to see the Herriot Museum (All Creatures Great and Small fame) where all the inside sets have been donated from the BBC and recreated - top stuff.



Mrs Pumphery & Tricky Woo

At Newcastle, we went to the Catherine Cookson Museum at South Shields, went through the Tyne tunnel, toured Newcastle and headed of to Haltwhistle after visiting Hadrian’s Wall - now in Scotland. Visited the residence of Queen Mary of Scots.



I Lived Here - MQoS

Sat 21st - Arrived early in Edinburgh, drove around site seeing and spent some hours at the Edinburgh Castle - worth seeing, best castle so far (ABC!) Took Brenda on a mini pub crawl that night.



Sun 22nd - Packed our bags and headed to the airport - the security was very strict to the point of being ridiculous, we could only carry one bag to the cabin and no liquids (including water), so we had to repack our suitcases, tranfer our booze into plastic bottles and post a very expensive bottle of perfume (Brend'a - not mine!!!) back to the UK. One young girl had been to Scotland to buy her wedding dresses and accessories and had about 5 shopping bags and had to squeeze all of the expensive clothing into her tiny suitcase..... Finally arrived in Dublin, love it - and we were blessed with great weather. Our hotel is right in the middle of the Temple Bar, a square Km of hotels, bars and restaurants - so many pubs and so little time.....

Devon, Cornwall & Doc Martin

Doc's not in.....

Sun 15th Oct: Headed of to the village of Port Isaac where the BBC series of Doc Martin was filmed, the weather was perfect!


Port Isaacs

Dropped in to Padstow for lunch before heading back to Plymouth for a carvery dinner at the Freeman's local pub. They actually sell beer there without bubbles, oh dear, will have to avoid that for the next two weeks.....



On Monday, we pick up another hire car and head north, this time on the correct side of the road!!!!!!!!!

UK and Freeman's

A Plymouth Welcome.

Arrived at the Plymouth ferry terminal with cries from the assembled of Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! At last - people that spoke English!

Sat 14th Oct.

Brian and Maureen (Waynes folks) took us on a cooks tour of Plymouth - geez it was cold! When I get cold, it's COLD! Visited the site where the pilgrims left for the America's, where Sir Francis Drake was playing bowls before the invasion and lotsa other places.



Saturday night was a dinner with Wayne's family

Roscoff and UK

Sunrise from our hotel window in Roscoff. Last night, we met up with an elderly Frenchman (80 odd years old) who was a young boy during the occupation and told us some of the stories about that time - very interesting conversation.

Friday 13th: We prepared for the trip to the UK by converting about 11 pieces of luggage into 5 for the trip to the UK. The ferry was due to depart at 3:30pm local and I had to drop the car of in Brest, some 60 Km's away. I dropped Brenda off at the ferry terminal with the luggage and headed of to Brest, arriving at about 11:30, hoping to catch a taxi back.

No joy, taxi companies wouldn't accept the fare. So here I am, 60 Km's from Roscoff and no way to return. The hire car people rang the bus terminal and discovered that a bus departed Brest for Roscoff at 1:15pm, a 50 minute ride - NA, try two hours. Arrived at the ferry terminal at 3:17pm, with the staff poised to process our paper work and we got on board at 3:25, the warfies removing the ramp as we stepped on board! - close......



England here we come!!!!!

Normandy

Arromanches, where the whole street is lined with USA, British, Canadian and French flags


Thur 12th Oct, Normandy. This is one place they don't want to forget the war. We visited Gold (English) & Omaha (USA) beaches and Arromanches (where the floating harbour was towed to from Portsmouth and enabled huge quantities of supplies to be landed in the first few weeks of the invasion) . We drove down along the coast road where all the landings took place on D Day, a drive of about 70 Km's, where gun bunkers still stand, machine gun nests, artillary sites and abandoned tanks and other machinery.






This is the path that leads to the memorial to the USA soldiers who died on Omaha beach, you may recognise this as the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan.

Now off to Roscof to catch the ferry to the UK.

Dunkirk, Calais & The Somme

Wed 10th Oct: Left Paris and headed for Dunerque. The drive out in the Paris morning traffic was indeed an experience! Lots of horn blowing, swerving and avoiding other cars - CRAZY.

Had lunch on the Dunkirk beach, Dunkirk was pretty drab and looks like they are trying to forget the war. Dunkirk was all but flattened in 1944 and the buildings erected during the reconstuction is probably the worst example of 50's & 60's European architecture. The anti-boat defences can still be seen in the water.


Calis Ferry Terminal West Mole

Left Dunkirk for Calis hopefully to see the white cliffs of Dover. Unlucky - overcast and misty, a bit disappointing. On the West Mole, there must have been over 100 fishing lines in the water, and for the half hour or so we were there, I did not see one fish caught!

Next planned stop was Rouen, home of Jules Vern and the city where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. This took us through the Somme where over a million soldiers died in a 5 month battle where the allies drove the enemy back by about 16 Km's. Works out around 63,000 soldiers per Km - war is so silly......

Just after arriving at Rouen, an enormous storm hit the city, torrential rain and lotsa lightning, went on for hours. We couldn't find accommodation in Rouen and headed out of town and booked into an Ibis hotel in Barentin a few scary Km's down the track. After booking in, and again to the amusment of the locals, we tried to order dinner. With the aid of the hotels English/French dictionary, some progress was made, however there was one dish they couldn't translate (Lamb) and the waitress in frustration loudly cried baaaaaa! - we ordered lamb.

Paris

What a city - spent all day on the Hop on Hop off buses, it is the only way to see Paris. You would not believe how heavy the traffic is, and they are CRAZY drivers with NO manners, peak hour is unblievable.



Did all the touristy things, Effiel Tower, Arc de Triumph, Notre Dame, the square where all the beheadings took place including Marie Antonette. At it's peak, 2500 people were beheaded in one day, and the guide said that there was so much blood on the ground that the horses pulling the carts and people where slipping over - nasty.

In the evening we went to the Effiel Tower for Dinner. One trick we've learnt is that if you think you hear an Aussie you loudly go "Aussie Aussie Aussie" and if there is a response (Oi Oi Oi), you meet up and have a chat. This we did on the bus going to the Tower and teamed up with a couple from Sydney ( had to mention the Eagles) and a mother and daughter from Perth. How creepy is this, the mother was a retired hairdresser who knew Sieg & Marj (Bruce's parents) from their Zecks salon in Hay Street Perth and their reputation of Sieg's wig making days & Miss Australia gala's in the 1960's!



The dinner and views of course was spectacular. Then we did a boat cruise down the river and off to the Moulin Rouge show which started at 11:30pm. Well what a show!, all the girls were aboslutley gourgeous, most of them danced topless and the costumes were stunning. The show lasted just on two hours and included dancing, gymnastics, magic, animals, comedy and of course the Can Can.



Got back to our hotel after 2:00am, but there was no sleep-in as the hotel is quite noisy in the mornings. Today we will do more Hop on Hop off (only did half yesterday) and will have an early start tomorrow and off to Dunkirk.

Mt Palatis (Zurich), Verdun & Paris

Thu 5th Oct: Arrived in Zurich safe and well after a few hours stop in Liechenstein. Found our room in the Montana Hotel, small but nice, parked the car, did our washing in the bath, booked the trip for Mt Pilatus at the Hotel and headed off to the Cafe strip for dinner. It's like Northbridge, but four time as big, with resturants of every food imaginable. Given our disaster for a spag bog lunch in Italy, we settled for an Italian meal, after mortaging the house with a local broker, it is unbelievable how expensive Switzerland is, food & drink prices are roughly FIVE times in Aussie dollars!!!! Early night for the trip to Mt Pilatis.

Fri 6th Oct - 27th Wedding Anniversary, weather perfect: Arrived at the tour bus only to find that the Hotel had booked the wrong tour and the one we were supposed to be on left 15 minutes ago - NOT happy Jan! We managed to board a bus with a tour similar to the one we had planned since February, a welcome drop in Bruce's blood pressure followed!


Well - what a trip. After arriving in Lucerne, we boarded a cable car to get near the top of the mountain, this took 2 changes of cable car and got us to around 1700m. The next was on a 40 passenger gondolier which took us to 2200m in a climb of 60 odd degrees, little bit nervous with that leg of the journey.... The view from the top was SPECTACULAR. Met a couple of Sybils friends.



After a walk around, photo's and lunch, boardered a cogwheel train down the entire mountain side at a slope of 47 degrees, the highest inclined cogwheel train in the world! Then a cruise on Lake Lucerne back to the bus and back to Zurich. We met and joined up with an Idian couple on their honeymoon.

That evening, being a little tired, we bought some chinese food takeaway, I use the term "food" loosely, 2 dishes, 4 spring rolls and 2 prawns, $AU58.00, flushed it down the loo - CRAP, we are spoilt in Perth....


Sat 7th Oct: Left Zurich on route to Paris, it was to be a 550Km drive, so we opted to overnight around 200Km's from Paris. The dart landed at a village called Verdun, which turned out to be a very good choice, stopping and touring Nancy on the way. Verdun was the area of huge battles during WWI & WWII and is rich in military history. We checked out several American and French war memorials and grave yards with 1000's of soldiers buried. War is so silly.....

Arrived in Paris around 1:00pm, after a lovely drive through French villages, only been travelling on the Autobahns about 50% of the time. Booked into the hotel and went straight down to the Louvre, a ten minute walk from the hotel, checked out Mona Lisa, Venus, Pan, Julius Caeser and lots of other stuff. Words cannot describe the Louvre......



Compared to the other countries we've been to, jeez, the French are an unhappy and miserable lot, in Paris anyway, see what tommorow brings. Had dinner at the Chez Flottes Brasserie, and would you believe, sat down next to a couple from Perth who were Eagles supporters - had lots to gloat about.

Tomorrow, we do the Paris Hop on Hop off tour and then to the Effiel Tower for Dinner, River Cruise and Moulen Rouge.

All for now - Bruce & Brenda

PS - forgot to mention we went to Dachau concentration Camp Memorial after leaving Munich - very depressing, more on that later.

Switzerland

Tues: Left Berchtesgarden to travel to Salzburg. It would be the most unfriendly tourist place so far, Couldn't even find the tourist bureau, so we checked out Mozart's house, just another house, and carried onto Innsbruk. On the way, as we are using the backroads, we went through some amazing villages, the ambience and character is indescribable. The train to Vienna was a 5.5 hour trip (500Kms) so we gave that a miss and stayed in Innsbruk - nice place. The tourist bureau booked us into a Zimmer (B&B), the room was creepy, smelly and 4 flights of stairs, cancelled the booking and went to the Zillerton Apartments which were very cosy. Visited several touist spots including the 1972 winter olympics ski jump (Bergisel) - amazing!



Wed: We revised our plan of attack and decided to go to Italy for lunch - BIG mistake!!!! Nobody told us we had to go over a mountain pass, 2211 m at the highest point. Got stuck in a snow storm, the roads were winding, windy & scary, car and trucks sliding down the slopes, one truck missed us by a bees dick....



We travelled from Austria, to Italy and ended up in Switzerland, travelled 220Km.s and took us 6 hours, ave less than 40 Km/H and it rained all day. Finally arrived in a village called Staila, about 1800 m ASL, which is in the heart of the ski area of Switzerland, not far away from Klosters. It wasn.t cheap, cost us 300 swiss francs for dinner, bed & breakfast, (about 290 aus dollars), but the scenery from our window was worth every cent, surrounded by huge snowcapped mountains.



Thu: The roads over the pass to get to Liechenstein were closed due snow, so the hotel manager suggested we put the car on the train and go under the pass, this we did, 18 swiss franc, the tunnel was 17Km.s long and saved us about 80 Km and 2 hours of winding snow covered roads. Had lunch at Liechenstein, guess where - McDonalds, two chicken burgers and medium drinks - 28 dollars AU! It.s 3:00pm local, now heading off to Zurich and Mount Palatis.

Dacau & Austria

One of the 4 crematoria ovens.....

We visited the Dacau concentration camp 30Km's from Berlin. It was so depressing and sad, nearly 250,000 souls we murdered during the 10 odd years the camp operated, enough said...


Hitlers Tea House, above the Eagles Nest

Berchestgarden, famous for being the home of Adolf Hitler, it's one of the best parts of the trip so far, it is so beautiful here, we went up to Hitlers Tea Rooms on the top of one of the highest mountains in Germany, it is exactly preserved as it was in 1938, built for Hitlers 50th birthday. The views were breathtaking, and it was one of the few days it was relatively clear, only had the clouds come in for a short time. The Eagles Nest, from which Hitler planned most of his war stratagies is about 200 metres below, but all but one of the 80 buildings wre detroyed after the war.

We stopped at lovely little place last night called Roseheim and stayed at a lovely guest house with a little verandah and had a good rest.

Dropped into a pretty village called Fucking, tried to pinch the sign, but we were being watched by the Fucking police, Fucking garage owner across the road and a lot of other Fucking towns people, next time maybe. Still havent made Salzberg yet. Seen a lot of Smart cars and Yaris cars in Germany. Still meeting lots of lovely people on our travels, and the locals are pleasant. We're staying in the small villages on the trip, hence many of the locals don.t speak English, but we're coping. Tomorrow we will try Innsbruck and maybe do a train trip to Vienna to sight see.
Then we will be off to Lichenstein and then to Switzerland by the 5 October. We are having a ball, and glad that things are going ok, looking forward to the UK.

Octoberfest

Friday - only one way to describe the Octoberfest - WOW, makes our Royal Show look like a country fair! We journeyed by foot, about 1Km from our hotel (taxi home though!) along with 799,998 other people, with 2 million people expected over the weekend! We went on a quite day.... One good thing it wasn.t a rip off, 6.50 Eu for a litre of beer, and the food was cheap as well. It.s difficult to describe the place and the fantastic atmophere, we met loads of other visitors at the beer halls, sang *ein prosit* countless times and even Brenda had a beer, albiet a sip! We managed to visit 6 out of the 9 halls, each hall could fit a Boeing 747 with room for a couple of cessna.s! - got some great photos.



The weather so far has been incredible, mid to high 20s, but high humidity, Berlin was 30 when we got there very few places has aircon, only heating, so some nights have been uncomfortable. We had one wet day so far, the day we drove Berlin - Nuremberg.


The moment of the Eagles Victory!

Saturday morning - up at 0400 to go to the Arc bar in Munich for the live coverage of the Eagles v Swans. The place was quite small, in a basement and probably fit 100 pepole comfotably, but I rekon there was twice that, and it was like being in an oven. It the first AFL GF watched in a hotel and not been able to get to the bar for a beer! The crowd was all aussies with about 60% backing the WCE, great atmosphere, great game!

We.re off to the famous Hoffbrause for dinner and then to Austria tomorrow. We have named our GPS map Erica, she has been fantastic getting us around. When we get to Wayne.s place, we can put some more photo.s on the page.