Lyon

So a quick update. Quick, not one of these long posts I have been writing lately, we shall try to keep this to one page... allready I have started verbosely.

Anyways, Lyon, somewhere in the middle right of France on the map, we left Paris on Thursday and Rhyso had his first experience driving the rig, naturlly we other RWC tourists huddled in the back of the bus in fear. We got into town ahead of the flood of Aussies who are here to support the wallaby tilt which meant we got a decent camp site.

Lyon is a very nice town, a lot like Geneva, with two rivers coursing threw the centre of town it makes for a picturesque setting. It also is blessed with a particullarly fantastic Australian pub called the Ayers Rock- il est tres bon. Anyways, Friday we did some touristing and then went to the big square in the centre of town where they were showing the big France game vs the mighty Puma's. Long story shorter I was vindicated in my complete writing off of the Frenchies. The atmosphere on the square was fairly special, Aussies and Frogs mixing as one, that is until the end when they realised most of us where cheering for los puma. The roar of the crowd every time Chabal got on the screen was incredible- that kid will be a superstar by the end of this cup. Afterwards we spent muchus time in the Ayers Rock, dawn found BA, BT and Duggan extending international relations with a couple of young local lady's.

A few hours later we were back in town for the big game, which is when we were approached by a local journalist we had met the day before. Take that Poundster.com, we made the Le Reporter, the Rhone Alps daily, and we got a photo- Messy Dayz Rulz. The game was a lot of fun, first the wallabies killed it, and second the atmosphere was spectacular- good times. Whenever the Lotus Blossom's did anything at all the crowd went mad.

There are a lot of ugly Australian's on this trip (6 of them living in the Messy Dayz Express) but overall this is coming together just as we planned it.

PS- the wallabies to win the world's cup.