Louisa and Tim scored us free tickets (usually £30 each!) to go to the New Zealand day of the 3 day toast festival which is held annually in London - celebrating Australia, New Zealand and South Africa over a 3 day weekend. Wasn't our usual "full" crew, with Toni still trecking around Europe and Pam in the States (oh the glamorous lives we lead!) but Gina made the treck up from Isle of Wight to join us (YaY!) and we had a great day. Basically it's held in a massive hall with many sta
lls selling kiwi food and products like t-shirts, greenstone, buzzy bee etc and of course beer & wine; also recruitment agencies, shipping companies - anything that your average antipodean would be interested in! We were lucky to arrive early enough to snag a table and guarded it for the rest of the day, taking turns to grab beer/wine and munching out on everything we miss from home - rashuns, mince pie, L&P, chocolate and taking some home too (just don't convert into kiwi $$'s!).
The day was opened by a maori culture group which was wicked - you don't realise how much you miss that stuff! Daniel Carter and Zin Zan Brooke were in the sports section and took time to sign a few autographs etc. OpShop and Supergroove played later 
in the afternoon/evening and got the crowd pumping. It was a pretty good day but really not worth the ticket price so super glad it was FREE hehe, lovely to get a wee New Zealand fix, even though I know we're home soon.
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