Dan Moss popping the question to his beloved girlfriend Rachel meant that a joyous occasion would soon be upon us.....another stag do! Dan took the lead in organising this (and as Rach says she wishes he put half as much effort into organising the actual wedding day!) and we're massively grateful as it turned out to be the best trip away yet! A week of skiing and snow-boarding in Chamonix all the while holed up in a luxury chalet complete with WI-FI, jacuzzi,sky tv and even better a dishwasher! This was taking boys club up a notch! The usual dawn start [View Full Entry]

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One of Chris Alger's wily investments had seen him purchase a one bedroom apartment in the Bulgarian ski resort of Bansko. So what better way to enjoy this than to cram six of us into the apartment for a 6 day skiing holiday - and as we drew straws for the beds, Chris ended up sharing a futon in the lounge of the apartment that he actually owned! Getting there had been the usual "no-queuing" affair that is always a regular feature with Alger Jnr at the helm. This time we were cutting it so fine to get to the airport [View Full Entry]

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What better way to beat the Autumn blues in London than a cheeky holiday in Thailand for 12 days to top up the tan, get the feeling of sand between my toes and touch briefly on the traveller lifestyle of a few years ago. Sky and Matt, two American friends who I had met in Santiago, were doing an even better job than I had done of procrastinating getting into the real world and getting "one of those career things" and were teaching English in Thailand for a year. As usual I needed no second invitation to book a plane ticket [View Full Entry]

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Amsterdam...blur of scrambled memories....arrival....welcome to the flying pig....cafe....how do you set up a backgammon board??...drinks...cafe....drinks....I guess there was a meal in there somewhere - probably an Italian knowing us....drinks...vibes... head to Leidesplein....more vibes and that's Friday. Another full English for breakfast - we are good tourists....drinks...cafe....watch the football just for Shaun - some great kicks in there....'shrooms.....park....any chance of a conversation.....silence.....darkness.....fear.....paranoia......tram rollercoaster ride.....back to flying [View Full Entry]

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After Lawrence popped the question to Danielle most of us were only thinking one thing....stag do!! Best man Adam duly came up with the goods, hiring a pair of cottages down in Ashcombe, Devon that were complete with swimming pool, a games barn and no neighbours to complain about the noise and mayhem created by the frivolities that go along with a stag do. We managed to assemble down in Ashcombe in good time on Friday and after the Tesco delivery man had done us proud by turning up on time with a weekend's worth of food and booze we were [View Full Entry]

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Amongst other things the solemn promise of 80 degree sunshine and cloudless skies every day lured me out to Minneapolis to visit Sky, a friend met travelling back in Santiago. Unfortunately, (especially given my frailties and love of hot weather) I arrived during the middle of an unusually cold snap with temperatures virtually identical to those I had left behind in England! If the weather wasn't quite what I was hoping for the rest of the holiday certainly was! I found it a fantastic experience to be visiting a "real" part of the USA, rather than the frequently touristed areas of [View Full Entry]

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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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