Very boring true story: I was on a drinking week in Lanzarote with a couple of mates in October 2007 and Des McAlea, one of the survivors of the Miami Showband massacre, owned the apartment next to the one in which we were staying.
We had a good chat with Des and asked him where would be a good pub to watch the following day’s Rugby World Cup final between South Africa and England.
Des helpfully gave us directions to “the Tapestry” - “there should be a good crowd of English in there watching it”, said Des.
We followed Des’s directions to the Tapestry the next evening before the match and eventually found “the Tapas Tree”.
It would have been a better story had he bought us shots.
Sadly he didn’t buy us anything - he said he might be there for the match but he wasn’t, and we were heading home in the wee hours of the next morning so that was the last we saw of Des.
I see they were charging $36 for people to walk past Elvis’s grave yesterday at Graceland. 50000 people there apparently and not happy about the fee, which is fair bad.
