Wales part 3 day 2 at last the game

We are in the stadium, jam packed with Irish and a few French making up the 745000 crowd, roof closed and lots of noise.

two teams onto the field and off we go - it was a good match, first score in about four minutes then it all settled down, pretty exciting.

Graham had brought a tray of beers which he put on the seat between us which was free - so of course the seat being spring loaded, when Munster scored and we jumped up - so did the beer!!! - back to the bar.

Anyway the games was exciting, especially the last ten minutes when Munster were 3 points in the lead, which they managed to hold onto to eventually win the game. The blokes next to me were extatic - in tears and so so happy - prizegiving ceremony was good especially when they put out the lights , lit up the stage and set off the fireworks.

As soon as we could after the game we headed out and round to the massive Heiniken tent which had been erected in the grounds of the original Cardiff Arms Park, it was really plush with fancy loos, and LOTS of beer, cans, bottles and draught - for two hours. There was also a live band "Love Shack" playing and I am sure the girl singer had a wee thing for me so I ended up on the stage , just to show how it should be done !!!

When the "party" stopped we went with some friends to a nearby hotel where dinner was prebooked, a sort of slow and casual event which took us up till 12 m.n. to finish.

We then headed off through streets packed with folks enjoying themselves, long queues waiting to get into clubs and waded through tons of litter, it was like a bomb site, and by comparison Edinburgh is dull and boring , and clean!! and reached the railway station where we discovered that our information about the trains was a load of nonsense - there were no more trains to Swansea.

Spoke with rail staff and the Police and the advice was get a taxi - so whilst haggling over the ridiculous fares being charged we met up with another bloke going to our hotel so that helped a bit when we could divide the fare by three, and the bonus was that Graham had found a driver who would knock £10 off the price. So about 45 minutes later - and a lot of laughter as the driver and Graham had some banter going, we made it back to the Swansea Marriot where after yet another pint we collapsed into bed. To be continued --