It's a small world

[Juan]

We "found" a couple of Kiwi's in a pub just round the corner from our house during practice week... we tried to direct them to a camp site but in the end they stayed with us for the duration of their stay......

Now the scary bit.... we were talking on their last night about allsorts and the conversation turned to jobs.... Steve one told us he worked for NZ telecom, I said " Oh Lisa (Slim) who we stayed with in NZ worked for them"............... He then told me he knew Lisa.... FFS 4.5 million people live in NZ(so i'm told) and we pick up two random strangers and they know someone in NZ we stayed with !!!! Freaky with beer !!!:yes: :yes:

[Dooly]

We're all related here too mate.

[Juan]

We're all related here too mate.

LOL...... Dad?

[Blackbird]

Haha! I met Slim on the Cambridge-Hamilton Toy Run a couple of years ago, then her husband at the Okoroire pub a few weeks later! Small world indeed.

[Macktheknife]

LOL...... Dad?

Don't you mean Uncle Dad?

[bistard]

Juan,yes its a small world,on the oposite side of things I was walkng down the main street in Paeroa(where on of our big street races are held)bumped into a guy got talking with him,had a very broad Irish accent & turned out to be the one & only Seamus Greene,he came back & stayed a week with us in Wellington,lent him some riding gear & a VTR1000 & pointed him towards the Rimutakas,great bike road
I have kept in touch up untill his accident,any idea how he is??
Regards
Barry

[Juan]

Juan,yes its a small world,on the oposite side of things I was walkng down the main street in Paeroa(where on of our big street races are held)bumped into a guy got talking with him,had a very broad Irish accent & turned out to be the one & only Seamus Greene,he came back & stayed a week with us in Wellington,lent him some riding gear & a VTR1000 & pointed him towards the Rimutakas,great bike road
I have kept in touch up untill his accident,any idea how he is??
Regards
Barry

Sorry I don't, his family I belive have asked for privacy.... not too sure if that is even correct.... Sad day that one....

One of the guys we found had a Paeroa t-shirt on , that's why we started talking to them !!

[bistard]

Sorry I don't, his family I belive have asked for privacy.... not too sure if that is even correct.... Sad day that one....

Yes,Bloody neat guy!!Damn shame
Man did he enjoy a beer & a yarn,but show me an Irishman that doesnt
Hahaha

[Juan]

Yes,Bloody neat guy!!Damn shame
Man did he enjoy a beer & a yarn,but show me an Irishman that doesnt
Hahaha

Indeed.... nearly as bad as you guys !!!:innocent:

[bistard]

Indeed.... nearly as bad as you guys !!!:innocent:

Yup!!
But thats because most of our ancestors came from over there anyway
I can trace both Irish & Scotish heritage

[Crisis management]

Reminds me of my OE (several centuries ago now..) slight exageration but 1979 which feels like several centuries ago now.


My second day in San Francisco and I bump into a guy that lived around the corner from me in Auckland.....we had never met before and both end up travelling 10,000km's to meet!

In Israel, the next year, while I'm chasing cows on a kibbutz and watching the artillery in the Golan heights I stumbled across another local (auckland) biker in a neighbouring kibbutz. There weren't too many bikes available so it was camel racing and really crappy bicycles to tell lies about.

There's Kiwi's everywhere....