On Saturday (3rd feb) we went to watch the haka for Waitangi day which is 
on Tuesday 6th Feb. This day is a national holiday in NZ it was when the Waitangi treaty was singed between the crown and the Maori people. What they do over here is have a pub crawl for it called the circle line pub crawl. There are 27 tube stops on the circle line most people never finish all of them. Most only 
ever stopping at temple. It starts at Paddington at 10 am. There are a few rules if you want to partake in the tube ride you are not allowed to sit down or hold on. Pretty much you have to train surf the whole way. Last year we heard there were over 8000 kiwis taking park.
We decided not to do the circle line crawl instead we went to Westminster square to watch the haka at 4pm. We got there around 3pm it started at 4. Cracked open a few beers just to fit in of course and then enjoyed watching all the drunken crazy people. There was a massive crowed, all of a sudden the crowed just started moving. We had no idea what they were doing as we
thought the haka would be taking place on the grass. It turns out they were doing it on the road that had been blocked off. I went down with the crowed to try and get some video footage of the haka . As there were so many people and even with my height I could hardly see anything.
We were all a bit disappointed. Left the square headed out for some macacs starving by that time. Then headed off to a pub where there ended up being heaps of kiwis. The normal punters had no idea what was going on. It was towards the end of our night when we met up with some other friends of Mels. We met this kiwi guy Lindsay who was drunk and the girls ended up getting him to do the haka for us as we didn’t get to see earlier that day.
That was on Saturday on Tuesday (6/2/07) we went to the kiwi kitchen with Jen (housemate) and her kiwi friends for a meal out. It was an expensive meal but I had a delicious steak for main cooked perfectly, with soft shelled battered crab from entrée and a pudding for dinner it was delish. Kieran had soup for entrée, lamb shanks for main and of course ice cream for dessert it was hokey pokey. The whole night dinner cost us 65 pounds together. Expensive meal but was good food.
Here is the Waitangi Day on video as best I could record it (file size: 15mb).
on Tuesday 6th Feb. This day is a national holiday in NZ it was when the Waitangi treaty was singed between the crown and the Maori people. What they do over here is have a pub crawl for it called the circle line pub crawl. There are 27 tube stops on the circle line most people never finish all of them. Most only 
ever stopping at temple. It starts at Paddington at 10 am. There are a few rules if you want to partake in the tube ride you are not allowed to sit down or hold on. Pretty much you have to train surf the whole way. Last year we heard there were over 8000 kiwis taking park.We decided not to do the circle line crawl instead we went to Westminster square to watch the haka at 4pm. We got there around 3pm it started at 4. Cracked open a few beers just to fit in of course and then enjoyed watching all the drunken crazy people. There was a massive crowed, all of a sudden the crowed just started moving. We had no idea what they were doing as we
thought the haka would be taking place on the grass. It turns out they were doing it on the road that had been blocked off. I went down with the crowed to try and get some video footage of the haka . As there were so many people and even with my height I could hardly see anything.
We were all a bit disappointed. Left the square headed out for some macacs starving by that time. Then headed off to a pub where there ended up being heaps of kiwis. The normal punters had no idea what was going on. It was towards the end of our night when we met up with some other friends of Mels. We met this kiwi guy Lindsay who was drunk and the girls ended up getting him to do the haka for us as we didn’t get to see earlier that day.
That was on Saturday on Tuesday (6/2/07) we went to the kiwi kitchen with Jen (housemate) and her kiwi friends for a meal out. It was an expensive meal but I had a delicious steak for main cooked perfectly, with soft shelled battered crab from entrée and a pudding for dinner it was delish. Kieran had soup for entrée, lamb shanks for main and of course ice cream for dessert it was hokey pokey. The whole night dinner cost us 65 pounds together. Expensive meal but was good food.
Here is the Waitangi Day on video as best I could record it (file size: 15mb).
1 comment:
... mmm ... pub crawl. Jealous! Hahaha.
Sounds like you're having a blast.
I got back from Bali a few weeks back, and off to Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong (yeah, Disneyland, woohoo!) in two weeks.
So there, haha! It will be a well deserved break from CGU. Well, it will be a break anyway!
Ciao dude.
Mikey.
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