Category: Europe
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Toulon Take Two
There are possibly very few that would land from a holiday the other side of the world in polar opposite conditions to the UK on a Monday evening and even contemplate recovering from a sleepless flight, jet lag & post amazing holiday blues to be up at 2am to shower and be in a taxi…
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Reminiscing THE Toulouse weekend of 2008
Last time I was here in the pink city I was with a whole bunch of friends. The memories I hold dearly as it was, in my book, my favourite foreign Bath Rugby away trip to date. Sadly so many of us have not travelled en masse since. Life has moved on, priorities have changed…
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ROAD TRIP! Transalpina way
A short trip back to Romania to visit the friends and family over there led to a road trip with one of my greatest friends, Ileana, and 6 of her friends up to the mountains for a couple of days. I’m not sure that the idea of sitting in a car for so long in…
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Venice: Balls, budgies & BIKEs
Venice is perhaps not the first place you think of as the destination for a rugby match. However, such is the beauty of the European destinations that we seem to end up in on our Challenge Cup away weekends! A small price to pay for not being in the Heineken Cup! Hotel prices in the…
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Tenerife Sept 2012
• Elderly Europeans seem to like nothing better than strolling up and down the beach in their swimwear. • At an all inclusive resort it amazes me how much people eat! Who wants hot soup for lunch in 32 degree heat? • It’s not a hippo on the neighbouring balcony but an oversized Russian clearly…
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Rugby World Cup Final Weekend Paris 2007
It’s Wednesday before the match and it feels like everyone I know is getting tickets and so on for the final. With each person that admits their guilt (that they are going without me) my jealousy pangs get worse. Thursday evening and a text comes through from Louisa. It went along the lines of Paddy…
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Lapland and the Ice Hotel Feb 2007
So after a night in the Thistle Hotel just near Heathrow we headed to the airport at 5.15 am to a rather large queue at check in and an even longer queue at security with only 7 mins to go before the flight left we managed to queue barge but yet more waiting when I…
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Easter in Romania – Joint email 2005
Anca Tanasescu wrote: Please forward to anyone else whose email address is not above Dear All, It’s a verrrry long time since I haven’t heard from you. Faithful Emma who has really become part of our family, is with us and I’ve tried to catch up with news about you but she doesn’ know very much…
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Prague: 20th February 2005
I woke up and had a shower5 and jumped on my bag to try and get it to shut. The taxi turned up on time and I went to the airport in plenty of time and I checked in and got fags and booze and a guide book picture thingy of Prague. I sat and…
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Prague: 19th of February 2005
I had a lovely long sleep this morning which I guess I wont get again until next weekend now as I have quite an early start for the airport tomorrow morning. Weird to think that I am going already when it feels like I have only just arrived! I did my Literacy Planning and finished…
Escapisms 