Having booked our flights to Riga back in November our trip East seemed to come around incredibly quickly after our last jaunt to Krakow. The usual silly o'clock start that we have become so used to saw us arriving in Riga without any problems, and a first for boys club - a taxi driver from the airport that didn't want to either rip us off massively or try and kill us with his dodgy driving. Result! We were booked into the comically named Friendly Fun Franks hostel which proved to be an absolute winner - arranging a couple of great trips [View Full Entry]

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The plan was to have a uni reunion, a road trip and a skiing holiday all rolled into one. It sounded like a great idea, but it rested heavily on Mama and Papa Freitag's generosity as they provided not only the use of their chalet but also their car with winter tyres in order to help us get down there! Six of us, James, Sarah and Steve to complete the uni reunion along with my sis and her boyfriend Nigel, met up in Faversham and headed down to Dover to take the ferry across to France. Saturday morning saw an early [View Full Entry]

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January saw an ambitious boys club, as rather than making a break for sunnier climes we were going to take on Poland...in January! We knew that it might be a tad chilly, but luckily the weather held as well as we could expect and it hardly rained at all! However, I think I was the only one that had brought a brolly and the light drizzle when we arrived meant that we made some Polish market vendors day as four umbrellas were snapped up in double quick time without a hint of negotiation! The quality wasn't the best either, as Shaun [View Full Entry]

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Early October saw our next stop on the Boys Club European Tour and this time our numbers had swelled to 9 - our biggest outing to date, though with Rachel and Michelle joining the ranks for the first time it wasn't strictly boys club! We had also split into three groups who would be arriving at different times. Matich, Nug and Shaun were the first ones off to Spain, heading out on the Wednesday morning. I flew out with the rest of the boys on Friday morning to meet up with them on the terrace of our rather swanky hostel. As [View Full Entry]

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Early September saw me join the Rollesby Cricket Club boys on their annual cricket tour, this time they were pushing the boundaries with their first international effort and we were winging our way to Dublin. I had got myself a dawn flight out from Bristol and, travelling light, I had soon made my way into the city centre in order to start exploring. Blessed with good weather I was able to take in O'Connell Street and its giant spire, wander through Trinity College and then chill out in St Stephens Park. In the early afternoon I headed over to our hotel [View Full Entry]

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Boys club were heading off for another holiday, and this one was going to be the most ambitious one so far with a five day road trip across Northern Spain in the offing. Our flight was the usual crack of dawn affair and took us to Bilbao. At the airport the comedy started pre-dawn as Moss had managed to leave his Sun-tan lotion in his hand luggage. This was soon confiscated and in the process Moss had all his belongings stripped out of his bag, revealing to us all the worst pair of shoes ever inflicted on the world - immediately [View Full Entry]

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Way back on April 1st, while I was swanning off to Bristol for a 5 a-side footy tourney, a military operation was being conducted back home by the Baso boys which led to us snaffling 7 prized tickets for Glastonbury. I say military operation, but as Gent and Emily will testify, any plan which involves Nug and a bit of organising is always going to be fraught with danger! When the festival rolled round and we tried to head off, we found that space was at a real premium and that the journey there was not going to be a pleasant [View Full Entry]

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One of the things people who meet me travelling need to be well aware of is that the passing comment of “if you’re ever in the area get in touch and I’ll put you up”, will be taken very seriously!! As was the case when my travelling companion Sky, who lives in Dinkytown, Minnesota, (wow, that place has such a cool name), who I met in Santiago mentioned that she was set to be studying for one semester of her masters in Vienna!! Seeing as Vienna is only a short hop from London, I had soon booked up a flight [View Full Entry]

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At Barclays we’ve got a regular Tuesday lunchtime 5 a-side slot, and quite a few of the players, (not myself obviously!), play to a very high standard. Thus whenin the springtime Barcalsy began to advertise their “Global 5 a-side football tournament” with a grand final to be played at the Emirates tadium we pricked up our ears! To get through to the grand final you had to come in the top 2 at one of the six regional finals. Twelve British based teams would make it through to the Emirates from the heats,to be joined by a further twelve team [View Full Entry]

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Bank holidays are so precious these days, and so when a promising weather forecast was combined with Mandi Mason’s offer of a reunion with the guys from Nottingham Uni based upon a long weekend of banter and boating on the Trent and Mersey canal, I jumped at the chance! We assembled at Mandi’s house in the mighty Stone, and after only the briefest of delays to ride the cool model railway thing that runs through her parent’s back garden we set off to Morrisons to get hold of 3 days worth of supplies for our boating extravaganza. Suitably prepared, we [View Full Entry]

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