Australia vs Wales

I caught up with Ems, Solveig at Sydney central station, on Saturday, for a small Acacia tour reunion with the warm & sunny Darling harbour playing back drop to the initial part of our day.

Ems set about her day’s mission “to find a Welsh flag or rugby shirt,” for the evening’s international game, by dropping into umpteen shops & kiosks. A few hours later we’d had no luck, so we scoffed some lunch down & jumped on a train bound for the Olympic stadium hoping to find something there.

There had been lots of marketing hype to sell match tickets but the 44,000 people that came to watch only half filled the huge stadium.

Not to be deterred by the semi vacuous venue the Welsh fired up their side with a rousing national anthem. Despite the initial part of the game being full of mistakes, the final minutes were hugely exciting as the Ozzies pounded the Welsh line, finally breaching it in the closing seconds to win the thrilling game.

The painful end to the game (well for Ems) was mirrored by her excitement to be give a Welsh flag to wave at half time.

We returned to the city & set about commiserating in true Welsh fashion, with a few beers & a post match autopsy!!