Sydney (Australia)
27 March 2015
27 March 2015
El treinta y cuarenta es un sencillo juego de casino muy popular
en Francia, pero poco conocido fuera de ese país.
In 2005 Australia qualified for
the World Cup for the second time in their history, the wait since the last
occasion had been a long 32 years. There were many times during that period
when all of us despaired at the qualifying path that would be dealt to us in each
four year cycle. There were nights of anguish and cruelty, there were nights
of hopelessness, but, on one particular November evening in 2005, John Aloisi
struck the ball into the bottom right hand corner of the net and the 80,000+
parochial Australian crowed erupted in a manner I had never experienced before
or since. The words that rang true on that evening, ring
true as equally today, ‘You can never say
never’. Life at times can seem to be so predictable, so straight forward but in a
short half breath, the ground beneath your feet gives way and you’re left in
altogether different reality. Sometimes the opportunities that this presents
amounts to possibilities that you could never have fathomed in the second
before the event took place.
So now, in the tradition of all
my other kick-off write ups such as ‘Life in a year full of Saturdays’, ‘The wingand a prayer tour’, ‘Don’t call this a comeback’, ’43: The tour of awesome’, ‘Argentina– The two-timer tour’, I give you ‘Trienta y cuarenta’ – the tour of never say
never!
Part of this write up also needs
to be dedicated to the continuation of an epic story in the making. For those
of you who have missed ‘Riga – Latvian Nightmoves’
and ‘Paris: Who the hell saw that coming’, you would know that Inga and I met in Riga, had our first date in
Paris and now, effectively, we’ll be having our second date in Buenos Aires…but of course, how in the
world would you ever follow up an epic first date like Paris. For those of you
that want to know, the city of good air will resolve your dilemma!
3 months in South America with
two major birthday milestones, 30 & 40, time to get started!
