Are you 'avin a laugh?

After having bought the tickets to the show months ago we this week headed to Hammersmith in London to see Ricky Gervais, aka David Brent from The Office and Andy Millman from Extras. His new show ‘Fame’ is now the biggest selling stand up show in British history. His current tour sold out months ago but due to popular demand he added extra dates to the itinerary – lucky for us.

You may remember our post months back telling you that we’d happened to stumble across tickets for a Wednesday evening show being advertised at £3.00 a ticket – what a bargain! We bought three. Sure enough a week before the gig the ticket company came back to us claiming the face value is £30.00 and they want the extra dosh back. I wrote a letter back to them telling them several reasons why they shouldn’t want their money back, and I never heard back!

Seeing as we had the spare ticket we decided to take my cousin Mark up from Bournemouth. He’s only 17 but they didn’t check for I.D on the door so we were sweet. The show was excellent although if you were easily offended this probably wouldn’t be for you. He ripped it out of anybody and everybody. A great night out though and I was impressed with the fact he was on stage for 90 minutes straight, plus 30 minutes from a warm up act.

This Sunday we fly out from Bournemouth to Barcelona to meet up with Tim & Dunc. Those guys are over this side after watching the AB’s demolish a sorry Scotland side up in Edinburgh before hiring some wheels in Paris and hitting the road. Right now they’re probably quaffing back a Spanish red in a vineyard in somewhere in La Mancha! Good on ya guys.

As for what we’re doing when we join them, well the plans are casual but by Saturday we should be somewhere near the west coast of Italy. Along the way we’ll pass through Marseille and the Cote D’Azur before making our way to Dunc’s sister’s place somewhere just outside of Rome.

It’s actually been a busy week for us booking trips away. We’ve just guaranteed our place up in Edinburgh for New Years Eve in a hotel 5 miles out from the city centre, and just across from Murrayfield rugby ground. We’ll be up there for all four days and nights of the official Edinburgh Hogmanay festival before possibly shooting across to Glasgow to pay a visit to Nikki & Craig.

I know I mentioned it to the UK crew earlier this year but if you guys are reading this and fancy joining us for an Edinburgh NYE the offer is still there.

We also booked our flights home this week. Not for another eight or so months yet mind but Air New Zealand was having a sale with deals that looked too good to turn down. We managed to pick up a one way flight home via LA for £450 including taxes. That’s the best part of £200 cheaper than I’ve seen anywhere else.

It’ll be a sad day on Wednesday 11th June next year when we end our OE, arriving in the wee hours two days later in Auckland, but these things don’t last forever.

There’s still plenty more we want to do before we leave yet – we hope there’s still plenty more good times and great memories to come.