Wellington and our first match - Wellington et notre premier match

Our day started with a visit to Wellington; the city centre and then up to Mount Victoria for of course a team photo' you can see Paul on the left:

Notre journee a commence avec une visite a Wellington, la ville et puis nous sommes montes au summet a Mont Victoria pour une photo de l'equipe - Paul est a gauche.







From here we could see all of Wellington including the airport and the stadium for tonights match:

Depuis ici on pouvait voir toute la ville de Wellington avec l'aeroport et le stade pour le match ce soir.

First visit was to Te Papa; the National Museum, for a concert of Maori dancing and singing together with an explanation the Haka and the Maori nose touching ''hello''.....we even had the chance of performing the Haka!

Premiere visite au musee Te Papa, pour un concert de danse et chansons des Maoris, avec une explication du Haka et le touche de "nez" - hello!

Te Papa had also organised a Welsh day with ladies dressed vin traditional clothes, Welsh Dragons etc.

C'etait une journee galloise au musee, avec les femmes en costumes traditionelles, les dragons gallois, etc...

The city was buzzing with rugby supporters for Wales and South Africa with an area set aside specifically for the Springbok and other visitors....France had the chance to meet an amerous lion!

La ville etait plein de supporteurs de rugby gallois et sud-africaines;  France a meme recontre un lion amoureux.

Some time was spent in the bar watching Australia v Italy with the obvious outcome but only in the second half. Good to meet up with friends from Hong Kong and Adrian, Richards nephew, over an excellent meal in the restuarant; Pravda.

On a regarde le match Australie contre Italie dans un bar, puis on a rencontre Adrian, le neveu de Richard et des amis de Hong Kong - geniale!   On etait 14 pour diner dans un bon resto, le Pravda, a Wellington avant le match.

 It was then off to the Stadium in full uniform....dragon hats which caused some humour!

Puis nous sommes partis au stade deguises en dragons

The Welsh team, shown below just prior to the match, performed well and deserved to win with just one point difference to South Africa. An exciting match with Wales falling just short of a victory.

L'equipe galloise, ici juste avant le match, a bien joue et ils auraient merite de gagner.
Monsieur Barnes - Aveugle????

Our dragon hats were appreciated by many as we left the stadium with many supporters of all teams stopping to talk to us

Tout le monde nous a parlait apres le match, grace a notre tenue ridicule!