PAYING OUR RESPECTS IN FRANCE
TRAVEL 1998 When Rod Jennings found the grave of his uncle, killed in the trench warfare of World War 1, it was hard not to become emotional, as the former […]
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TREATED LIKE VIPS IN FRANCE
TRAVEL Louis Bonnery was National Technical Director of the French Rugby League and coach of the National Universities Rugby League side when my Kangaroo Supporters’ Tour group arrived in his […]
TOO MANY ONE NIGHT STANDS
TRAVEL The traffic at the Arc de Triomphe roundabout in Paris parted like the Red Sea, as I made a dash to return my hire car, before office closing time. […]
MY SECOND KANGAROO SUPPORTERS TOUR
TRAVEL Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not […]
MY FIRST KANGAROO SUPPORTERS TOUR
TRAVEL Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not […]
LIKE A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
TRAVEL VALENTINE LAMB looked me in the eye and said: “I can probably spare time for one Guinness. I have a paper to get out”. Val was editor of the […]
RING! RING! WHY DON’T YOU GIVE ME A CALL
“That’ll be the phone”, Rod Jennings said, barely able to suppress his laughter. There was a bloke, at the bar of the Swansea Rugby Union Social Club, who could perfectly […]
THE DELIGHTS OF TUSCANY
It took only 10 minutes for our guide to realise we were not connoisseurs, as he took us through the impressive Ricasoli Wine complex in the hills of Tuscany, in […]
CAN I HAVE ICE WITH THAT?
As my 1990 Kangaroo Supporters’ Tour, ‘Regis’ coach pulled up outside the Hindhead Hotel in Surrey, England, I reinforced to my 33 loyal ‘subjects’, that ‘When in Rome, do as […]
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