WELLINGTON - NAPIER

Arrived mid afternoon in Napier and checked into Wally's hostel run by a fella from Darlington who looked like Steve McClaren and had a similar mental state as him. He was proper loco man, he just kept talking and seemed to know everything about everything. I kept expecting him to turn on a Dutch accent like McClaren did after being in Holland for a week talking to the British press. After an hour of listening to his ramblings he gave us the key.

Wandered round Napier, one of the largest Art Deco towns in the world, dead pretty!!

Went for a drink in the evening and turned into a pretty eventful night!!

Met a very drunk Kiwi guy in a bar who we got chatting to, who phoned his mate to come down. Had a good laugh with them two, Sam the drunk one, had a marker pen and liked to draw willy's of everything. At one point he came back from the toilet and said to me 'Ive drawn you a picture in there' It was a four foot willy drawn on one of the walls. The bar staff and bouncers were very tolerable of him as they didnt kick him out. It was a water soluable pen so they just kept wiping away his artwork off all the surfaces he could get his pen near. He was a good laugh like! He's big into fly fishing so we had plenty to talk about, His mate, Nathan, was a fishing guide and a hunter - he'd shot a deer that morning!!! We got talking to these Ozzy girls and the alds offered to take us all fishing the next morning. Sam in his drunken state txted his boss saying ' NOT COMIN IN TOMORROW TAKING THE ENGLISH FISHING' He wrote his number on my forearm which his marker then got it took off him by the bouncer.

Now the bouncer is another set of stories all together, he was the size of Hulk Hogan but had the face of some one who was bullied alot as a kid - he showed me a scar on his Bicep where he'd ripped it open punching someone!!

Higlight of the evening: Sam got his fly rod out of his Eute (which he planned to drive home even though he'd already lost his licence for drink driving) loaded the rod with line and was showing the girls how to cast in the middle of the road. Nathan then grabs the end of the line and said 'this is what a trout does' and then legged it full pelt down the road for about a block and a half with Sam trying to reel him in!!!! Proper nutters but well funny!!!!