Places

Rome

First Time I ever went abroad, was on a school Cruise on SS Uganda when I was 10. It was with Blue Coat Juniors and we flew to Rome and had a day trip around the sites including Trevi fountain, St ...

Tunis

First stop from Rome on SS Uganda. It was a third world country then, managed to buy a tom tom drum off one of the local traders for 1000 lira which sounded good to the bloke but was intact worth a...

Spain

The 3rd destination of our school cruise - Don't remember and awful lot about this visit to be honest apart from falling head over heels with Danielle Malbourne and having my heart broken when she ...

Lisbon Portugal

Lisbon to be exact. The 4th and final leg of our school cruise. It resembled a bit of a building site to be honest from what I remember. I was ready to go home now as I had the most violent project...

Isle of Mann Judo Tour

Visited the Isle of Mann Judo association with the BJC MAC national team. Beat my counterpart in a tough tandoori session

Pamplona Spain

International Judo competition - unfortunately they held it in the evening. I say that because in the afternoon, our hosts took us into town plied us with drink and made us run with the bulls. The ...

Honeymoon in Paris

Honeymoon in 1990 was paid for by the Express and star who I worked for and they unknowingly financed a telephone bill that myself and a colleague ran up trying to win a premium rate telephone comp...

Belfast - Chris Evans lookalike

Galway work visit to Slendertone

UEFA Championship Charleroi

England game vs Romania with my mate Bill Rogers. Last minute decision saw us travel over business class on swiss air. We lost a terrible game, and ended up sleeping on the luggage travellator in ...

Eindhoven International Judo

BJC MAC National squad travelled to Eindhoven - I was older than some of the coaches, and although I came away with no silverware, I won 3 fights by clean ippons before being dispatched by highly t...

Rugby World Cup Final 2003

Spent 24 hours in Sydney - arrived Friday evening flew out early hours of Sunday morning. And in between we saw England's greatest achievement beating the Australians in the dying seconds 20-17 wit...

Edinburgh to London on a bike

The end of the inaugural Ride of Britain, Edinburgh to London 2011 for SSAFA. 500 miles in 5 days was immensely satisfying - all in aid of SAFA, which is an ex forces charity

Brescia finish for Giro d'Italia

Travelled for a long weekend with my Martha and Karen to see the final day of the Giro. It was here in Brescia that Mark Cavendish needed to win t secure the sprinters red jersey and he did it with...

Moscow for Glenns 50th

Cycled Across Ireland

From Dublin to Puk Fair Aug 2016. Bren Purdey Chris Purdey , John Moorston and myself. Chris was driving support van and the rest of us cycling, although Bren and John spent more time in the van th...

Undercover trip to Perth

My sister needed some moral and physical support during her family court case. So I nipped over to Western Australia for a week and gave evidence, although I did manage to get a days sight seeing i...