These will be a random collection of stories and events of my travels with no particular meaning or generally no reason– just observations or actual (mostly un-exciting) events and general dross.
The first leg of the trip has taken in London-Edinburgh-London-(#thelinkup)
This will be by far the ‘nerdiest’ of my posts as in Edinburgh occurred the Touch Football World Cup. I am not shy to say I am a touch head, but a mate, Chris Loth, was playing for the Australian Men’s 30’s and I went and watched a lot of his games as well as a few others. All a bit of a laugh. More to come on this later.
Before Edinburgh, the 23 hour transit with 6 hours sleep is a slog – especially when the (plumpish) lady next to you drains 5 double whiskys in the first 2 hours, steals the drains a bottle from a passing cart, has another double and then promptly passes out. Immovable and in fly catching position. Lucky I was able to control my bladder for the duration otherwise she would’ve copped a Bruce Lee knee to the throat as I clambered over her.
Rendezvous with #dicksahoy (Fen and Tone), Edo and Anna Mac and Griff in a pub for a froff, who was kind enough to come up and hang out with me for the couple of days and show me some London.
We did all the touristy things in London – Big Ben, Parliament, Westminster, Buckingham Palace (underwhelming) and the bottom of several pint glasses (a frequent occurrence over the next few months) and Stamford Bridge, the home of Chelsea FC – an interesting tour where Griff managed to get interviewed by a Portugese TV crew AND a British radio program on the fortunes of (see photo)
Managed to luckily get found by my Spanish mamacita and massive lad C.Pring which turned into a good night in Picadilly Circus before leaving shortly after for Edinburgh. The fact the tube doesn’t run past 12 is probably a good thing as it ends nights pretty early.
The weirdest thing about the UK/Edinburgh is adjusting to the light. Sunrise during summer 4.15am, Sunset around 11pm. Sleeping mask is essential. I shudder to think how average it would be during winter here. The weather is also bloody average (reminds me of Tasmania, except worse) but I did manage to get pretty badly sunburnt on my last day here. Stay sunsafe kids. Slip slop slap.
Edinburgh as a city is pretty cool - heaps of old buildings and cobblestone streets. But I am of the belief that if you think you want to see it, don’t read about it online, get out and do it for yourself. There won’t be a lot of ‘this is what this place is like’ just, if I thought it was cool, maybe some highlights, maybe some stories, and that’s it.
Having said that, the castle was cool and definitely worth a look, but after a couple of hours of looking at war museums (I think there were 3 or 4 in there) it all seemed the same. Mark Lutwyche would’ve been in his element.
Touch World Cup
Throughout the week saw some good quality (mainly on finals day) and some sub-standard touch and a good chance to see Edinburgh and do a bit of travel Jason DeRulo style (ridin’ solo for those not familiar with modern pop hits) Having seen the quality of touch offered aroud the world I have come to the conclusion that the RMIT Touch team is at least the 13th best mixed team in the world and Take A Dump the top 15 mens teams. If you also like touch, have a listen to the FIT Anthem that they revealed at the game. Pretty ridiculous. If I can find a youtube of it or something, I’ll post it out. A disbelieving chuckle went through the crowd when it was played though.
Finals day was awesome, except when Australia lost. The Mixed open and Men’s open finals were both really good, close games with some quality touch being played. Certainly got my fix. Lothy represented the occasionals and got it done. (see below)
From Edinburgh: Shout out to Laura (the American Nanny from Holland) who is going to play for the USA in touch one day, I’ve got faith (if she steers clear of a bloke her best mate Sander) and the 2 WA lads, and lads they were – plenty of Alf Stewart quotes and general shenanigans (beer throwing) doing the round that night. Went out with them and a crew and got kaboshed entry into a nightclub (probably because one dude we were with was wearing a space invaders tshirt and had a photocopy of his passport as ID - idiot)
Anyway, now back to London for #thelinkup where the lads had been at The Church all morning and one, who I will not name here, had gone MIA, passed out mega early, naked, with 4 blueberry muffins and a bag of twix strewn across his bed. Well played sir.
It is finally hot in London and did some serios walking from London Eye to Tower Bridge but will be a couple of pretty quiet days I think here with prep being done for Rock Werchter, a massive festival we’re heading to in Belgium hosting the likes of Kings of Leon, Coldplay, TV on the Radio, Jimmy Eat World, Ke$ha, My Chemical Romance and many more. Fingers crossed for fine weather and good times.
After months of anticipation #thelinkup is complete, #thelegionofreptiles has assembled and we’re ready to unleash for a couple of weeks
Until you hear from me next, Go and get someone up for me.
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