We have a few match free days as we head south again and are looking forward to some time when we are not in the BBT, but are lying in the sun instead. Our 1st stop was a lovely hotel in Beziers, with a pool, air-conditioning and another fridge full of wine. What’s not to…
Wales v Fiji Just what you need when you wake up after not enough sleep and probably a little too much to drink – a 650km drive to your next destination, but what’s 6 hours in the car between friends. We roused the troops and packed them off to their own accommodation and then set…
ENGLAND v ARGENTINA A day that did not start or end quite as planned. We waved goodbye to Avignon, Florian, and his lovely wife and headed south to Marseille for our 1st game of the RWC 2023 (Catering had finally recovered from the fact that I had booked a smart, non-cancellable dinner on the Friday…
The original plan after wine country was to head straight to Marseille and spend 2 -3 days there ahead of our 1st match. I was supremely smug having booked well in advance a lovely looking apartment overlooking the Old Port. Then 6 months ago they cancelled my booking, apparently having sold the building – I…
I blame our route to Marseille entirely on one of Catering’s friends, who gave him a book to read in hospital & while recovering. Catering, not being a great reader of historical fact, carried said book with him on our last trip abroad, but favoured the latest Robert Harris offering, while I, having powered through…
If anyone had asked me 30 years ago, how did I imagine I would spend my the night of my 60th birthday, I’m not sure I would have ever come up with, having a fish dinner overlooking the sea in Folkestone followed by a hot & sweaty night (not in a good way) in a…
Packing for any break is a major exercise in the Spicer household (we have previously explored my inability to grasp the “packing light” concept), let alone packing for a 5-week trip. This is not helped by my need to return to a tidy(ish) house and clean beds. To make matters slightly more complicated I also…
I have been talking about being 60 for quite a while. The bells of Big Ben had just fallen silent after ushering in 2022 when I announced “I’ll be 60 next year!” Catering was less than amused by my premature adoption of the big SIX 0 as he worries that people will assume we are…
It is no secret that I will shortly be celebrating a significant birthday (one with a zero at the end of it). In fact Catering is completely fed up with me announcing “I am 60 this year” to anyone willing to listen, partly because everyone assumes, wrongly, he is the same age or older than…
I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since we travelled to Japan for the RWC 2019. So much has happened since then: So here we are in 2023 and the RWC has rolled round again. We had such a great time in Japan that we decided to do it again, this time in France. I…
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