The Rugby World Cup is over - and we won! How cool is that!? We were watching the matches in a Bar just down the road from where we're renting our flat here in Boltaña. The Bar opens at 10am "Spanish Time" which means anywhere between 10:15 and 10:25ish depending on "how late the guy worked the night before". Consequently we missed a couple of minutes of some of the games, but never mind - we were just very grateful that we could see them at all because they weren't on normal TV here and anyway we did get to see one full match - including the SA national anthem :-) When SA played Japan we arrived at the Bar with friends, bought ourselves drinks, sat down to watch . . . and the power went off! FOR AN HOUR!!! We joked that you couldn't get a more authentic feeling of being back in SA than by watching Rugby in a Pub and the power goes off. The power came back on with 10 minutes to go, so we saw the end of the game. Meanwhile we hadn't even been able to check the score on-line because cell phone coverage went down with the power. That's the first power cut we've seen in all the time we've lived here. How weird is that? Maybe I asked for it when I replied to a South African friend on Facebook who asked me if the bar we were going to had a generator and I replied "hey, we're a long way from ESKOM over here buddy!" Now we're enjoying the post competition humour on-line . . . . and hoping that the good feeling we have now lasts for a little while . . . . Well done to everyone. Tony & Andrea
