Quiet January and Waitangi Day Pub Crawl

Sorry to the 3 people that actually read this blog; I’m fat and lazy to give updates. January has been very low key, I managed to detox for 22 days without drinking a single drop of alcohol. It was probably the hardest time in my life.
It snowed in London last week. It was the biggest snowfall in 18 years. London is so dependant on its public transport system that the whole city came to a halt. Buses were not running, tubes were down and even the overland was having difficulties. No one was able to get to work and for the few that actually got to work, they had to leave or they wouldn’t have been able to make it home.

McLaren and Walker were down in London last weekend and it was perfectly timed as the 2009 Waitangi Day Pub Crawl was about to kick off. We arrived in Notting Hill Gate at 11:00am and cracked open uor first beer. Due to the sheer madness, it was virtually impossible to get into any pubs. There were people everywhere causing havoc to London; traffic came to a standstill!
People were dressed up and having a good time. There were people dressed as the iconic bumble bee, sheep’s, cricket and rugby teams. Streets were getting blocked off to play a bit of cricket and rugby balls were getting kicked around without care of their surroundings. Tumeke!

I did not get to see the haka as it was totally packed at Westminster Square. That’s all for now. I’m off to Bath/Bristol this weekend so will hopefully be able to take some nice photos.
Google won't allow me to upload video's to my web album so I had to upload to their version of youtube.
Waitangi Day gallery can be viewed here

Snow in London – 4.8 MB
Waitangi Day Part 1 – 4.9 MB
Waitangi Day Part 2 – 4.5 MB
Waitangi Day Part 3 – 4.8 MB

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McLaren and Walker








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