We beat the Aussies and Auckland goes mad!

"The best moment of my life" was how one of our guests, 69 years of age, described our great win over Australia.For all of us fortunate to be there it was simply one of those matches we will never forget.You have never seen anything like it. The stadium was heaving with well over half supporting the Irish thanks to the Kiwis desire to see...

New Plymouth Hangover

New Plymouth didn't know what hit it. Thousands of fans painted the town green and drank it dry!Our tour group met up for lunch in a local bar then headed up by coach to the match with a great sing song on the way! Conditions at the match were terrible so we all had to head to a nice warm bar afterwards to dry off. The general consensus was...

Opening Ceremony - Party Time!

The start of RWC was a brilliant time to be in Auckland as every Kiwi was mad for a party! Despite the long flight all our tour party arrived in that morning, showered and headed for "party central". Over 100,000 people were down on the waterfront soaking up the great sunshine and of course the beer! A huge firework display took place off...

Our tour begins!

I thought we would start this blog with the bleeding obvious - it takes ages to get to NZ! My business partner Mark just rang me to let me know!! He is now in Sydney waiting for his three hour flight onto Auckland and has had enough of flying already! He also sent me the worlds most boring photo! I promise that these will improve!Apparently...