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Dear Ben
FAN: 55457
Ballot Reference Number: 2581
England v Brazil Friday 1st June 2007 Wembley Stadium Kick Off: 20.00
We are delighted to confirm you have been allocated a ticket for the above match. Tickets for the match are priced at £60, £50, £40, £30 and are subject to availability at these prices.

Yep off to see England play Brazil at Wembley in the first match England will play at the 1.3 billon pound, 90,000 capacity stadium. Should be alrite eh? . OK it nots the world cup or anything, but it is history in the making and in 50 years time, we (Prob just me, Kat is only a little bit excited) will be able bore anyone that whats to listen about how we were there to watch England play the new wembley for the first time against Brazil.

M for massive.

3 Months or 3 Weeks

3 months have past since we left NZ, and to be honest it seems more like three weeks and we are well and truly at home in at the center of London.

You know you are getting used to living in London when.....

I) You see 100 police officers at the train station and are more concerned with whats for breakfast. (London Police do things en masse without exception, it is not unusual for up to a 100 boys in blue to be waiting for a train to pull in, so they can escort football fans to a ground so they don't cause trouble)


II) You are catching the tube, and you are gutted that you just missed one and you are going to have to wait two minutes for the next

III) You can't remember a single week that you have not been to the pub on multiple occasions for a few 'quiets'

It is starting to get into summer now the last week has average +20 and Monday is forecast to be 23+, no wind and nothing but sunshine. Bring on Paris at the weekend. It must have been the sunny weather but we went a bit crazy and booked another couple of Holidays, so to recap...

1st May Bank - Paris
2nd May Bank - Bruges
2nd week June - Amsterdam
3rd week June - Glasgow for Kat with Mel
Mid July - Copenhagen
August Bank - Rome
and a weekish long holiday on the coast of Spain or somewhere equally as exciting in August with a group of friends.

its a tough life, but someones gotta do it.

The Premiership

Another tick in the box. Went to Fulham v Blackburn on Saturday. Full house at Craven Cottage in glorious sunshine Our seats were ridiculously good in row 1 behind the goal just to the right. The atmosphere was fantastic, blew away any AB's game that i have been to. The football itself was OK. Nice to see NZ's only regular premiership player R. Nelsen dominate the back four for blackburn. Fulham look like they are going down tho, not good as they are one of the only clubs that it is easy to score tickets 2.

Holidays

Just planned our May bank Holidays. 5th of May we head to Paris and 25th of May we are off to Bruges in Belgium. Meeting Tim and Emma in Paris as they start their tour of duty, so should be good times. There is also talk of hiring a house in Spain for a week in July which would be excellent. In other exciting news off to the premiership on Saturday to see the mighty Fulham take on the av-er-age Blackburn, on Sunday we are going to watch the London Marathon and consider if we can be arsed fund raising to do it next year (me anyway, Kat is fast enough to qualify in the challenge with people that run fast)

Bladers

One of the weirdest things about London so far is the craze of roller blading, i thought it is an 80's things, apparently not. 'bladers' are every where. So much so that on Sunday about 1000 of them went out and about around hyde park. They are most annoying when running as they all think they are speed skaters and try and do tricks.

7-1 and sunshine

After experiencing snow and super cold temperatures upon our wake-up arrival in London, while nz was experiencing (finally!) the sunshine we missed during 'summer' before we left, we have overtaken nz with our current temperatures reaching the 20's , the past four days have been +25 degrees, the best thing tho is ... no wind.. Kat has just bought a new bike and can't wait to go rid'in in the sun.


7 -1. What a result, managed to watch the game in Leeds (for work) in a random pub full on Roma supporters, awesome.

Good Things TakeTime

Today represents the start of a new beginning. After months of false starts, different sites and reading random blogs I decided to do it and start a blog of what we have been up to. The motivation probably comes from the vodka, lime and soda that Kat and I are currently enjoying on our 'quiet' night in. 10 weeks later we find ourselves in April and well and truly living and loving it on the other side of the world in the myriad that is Lon-don.

Looking forward we have Paris to look forward to on the first May bank holiday and we are currently planning a week in Mallorca in June. Photos below are the Oxford/Cambridge boat race on the Thames today. We got there late and didn't get to see much, but still pretty crazy experience having 500k people watching a couple of row boats hammering it down the river.

In sad'er news man u lost 2-1 today to Portmouths meaning the gap closed to 3 points. Which brings me to another point about London, Super 14 is Super zero over here, it mars well be school boy rugby. Viva the football.