St Patrick's Weekend

We hung a tricolour (Irish Flag) from our balconey for the weekend. Friday was St.Patrick's Day and Alan went to work as normal...We took it easy enough that night knowing what was in store. Saturday was the England v. Ireland rugby game in Twickenham. We went to McKibbens, an Irish pub, where they have the satellite channel Setanta, which was showing the match. See below for ice sculptire outside the pub. It was a great match and Ireland narrowly won, in the last two minutes. Heady stuff. The rest of the day was a write-off with drinking and revelery continuing into the night.

On Sunday we went to the St. Patrick's Parade in downtown. It snowed, inevitably and despite the cold, the crowd was large and the atmosphere good.




























The last photo is the float from the Winston Churchill pub...unbelievable!!