We met up with Pri, Gabs and Anil one day at Oktoberfest (Munich beer festival) and Des, Loz and Mel the next. Needless to say many steins of beer were consumed with lots of general silliness and singing of German songs we didn’t know the words to. We are still feeling the effects a week later.
We then detoxed for a couple of days in the Swiss Alps, of which we have a new appreciation for after reading ‘Touching the Void’ (cheers Ed.)
(and now for Viens rant…)
We popped into the only English pub in Interlaken. It was pretty small with a few swiss locals, a group of frenchies and a couple of aussies. The aussies told us about their loss earlier in the day which we were sympathetic with but were really thinking ‘wohoo! You guys are outta here, suckers!’ A few hours later we were suckers too. I couldn’t believe we were out of the world cup and it was all due to that scummy ref! First he sent McAlister off for nothing (after which it was 14 vs 16) and the French scored, then he started to think he was in the NFL cos the Hail Mary used to score the next try was ridiculous!!! Yes I’m still not over it yet because we had tickets to the semis!!! I then had to suffer the indignity of reading clause 3 “In the event that your team does not qualify…” and England got through, great…oh and did I mention we’re now starting our month long stint in France (sigh)?
