Saturday night with Monkey and the Vets

Having watched England get humped by the All Blacks, the logical thing to do was to carry share a drink or 2 with the Budapest Exiles - namely a certain gentleman called Monkey - he is a Hungarian prop about 1.5m in all 3 dimensions and as he decided I look like a prop, we have become drinking buddies even though he speaks about 3 words of English and my Hungarian is still not what it should be! Post match sessions could require a taxi on stand by for a quick get away every once in a while

Later on the evening, we found ourselves in Bar Instant with some of the other Exiles players who also happen to be Vets and their Vet friends - now here, language was a problem mainly as they were all Irish and had had rather a good afternoon of it - especially as England had lost. By all accounts, there is only one college in Ireland that offers veterinary science and it is very difficult to get into and also a little pricey so the sensible thing to do is come and study here as the course is in english at a fraction of a price - I thought I might meet some interesting expats here but didn't imagine that I would find a colony of Irish Doc Dolittles and James Herriots. As the evening got later, the accents got harder to understand and the potential usage of the horse tranquilisers got more bizarre

Unfortunately the rest of the weekend was a right off - due in part to a fragile constitution and also to the weather - it hadn't rained here for the first 4 weeks I had been here but it sure made up for it this weekend!!