Chapter 64 - La Belle Alliance

The evening after the biffo was to be their last night in Brisbane before heading north to Hervey Bay. It was to prove to be far and away the best night of the stop. Before delving into this it is key to recall that there have been 7 lads together in Brisbane without any females to keep them in check for the last few days and they have become, how can we put this, rather feral.

Fortunately 5 of the girls they have met on their trip north caught up with them and so they were dragged back towards something like civilised behaviour for this final hurrah. The night was punctuated by rounds of Sambucas. Now it is very difficult to deliver a round of 20 Sambucas in small shot glasses without spilling a fair percentage. We are glad to report that none however was wasted as our hero downed all of the trays as well as his share of the shots.

The end of the night is a touch on the hazy side even for your normally teetotal correspondent.

Now it is perhaps appropriate to paint a picture of this entourage of women they have now acquired to help our gentle readers gain a fair grasp of how he is setting about meeting up with people of diverse backgrounds. They have all just left boarding school - Uppingham - and the least posh one's father is an MFH. Good to see he is mixing with the common man.