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Did the coffee and internet thing. Put loads more pictures on my flickr site. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubbers/sets/.

Met up with the boys at the Mad Mongoose. They had been drinking rum (when in Rome) and coke all day watching the cricket on tv. They have found out why the local rum and cokes are so murderously strong. Coke is imported. But rum is made locally and as such is much cheaper. I joined the ride which ended up with me crawling in around 5am.

This morsel of information came form a local bar girl that self confessed ladies man, Runty, has been working his magic on. The other night he was at the bar and the publican asked him what he wanted. With his usual charm he loudly proclaimed that he wanted to be served by the hot bar girl. To which the barman replied “Do you mean my daughter?”

The nicknames of the crew are changing. Woza is now being referred to as Woza the Joke Murderer. No joke is so funny that Woza can’t murder it when he is on the rums. Judge had been through a couple of changes. He quit his bank manager job a few weeks prior to departure to prepare himself for the long days doing nothing. As a result he is extremely brown. I am trying to get his name changed to Judge Patel. He is angling for Jamal which he thinks has a more west indian feel. Some of the other boys want his nickname changed to The Hoff after it was discovered that he boasted to a local paper in New Zealand that he was the strongest swimmer in the group and his job was to save anyone who went overboard. Beige the big guy of the group is being called The Belly and his nickname has been incorporated into one of our regular songs. The original song goes something like this:

There is only one (insert name of cricket player who has just done something good)
There is only one (same name)
He’s walking along, singing a song in a Kiwi wonderland.

Beige’s version goes:

There is only two Fat Bellies
There is only two Fat Bellies
One is Runty’s bar in Hamilton
The other is a person with feelings

If you don’t find this funny now have a few stiff rums and I swear you will be in fits of laughter.

The guys with girlfriends on the trip are all missing their partners. The single boys on the trip have a different problem altogether. You see the cricket world cup hasn’t attracted many women to Antigua. Also the vast majority of crew on the expensive yachts here are men. This has earned the island the long held nickname of Mantigua.

Rum will also make you breath fire. Hummus met the local fire breathing nutters on the way to the club. He convinced them that they should give him a go. I’ll put the video on my revver site in the next few days.

Rum can also get you wedding invites. An English couple we met last night invited us to Jolly Beach for their wedding on Sunday. For some unexplainable reason Runty swapped his grubby backpackers shirt with the English guys expensive branded shirt. Runty plans to wear his nice new shirt to the wedding.

Rum will also make you send inapropriate texts. Runty was so smashed when he got home last night he sent the following text to every female in his phone: what are you wearing? please send photos. His mum was not impressed, she told him to stop drinking so much and behaving like and idiot. The bad news for me is I have been using his phone since mine unexpectedly stopped working in the first week on tour. This means that either my girlfriend or my mum (Runty wasn’t sure which) will have received this text. Mum if you are reading this and you got Runty’s text, don’t send him any photos, he is up to no good.

Is there anything rum can’t do?

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