What are your best tour memories?

Maybe it was your teams annual urine up or a warm weather training session you had in France or Spain. What are the funny stories you remember from rugby tours you've had and where are your favourite places to take your teams.

oops I just realised this is a thread for people who've played

I actually really miss touring. I've only been on two playing tours. Australia and NZ in 99 with my college which was amazing and America with Risca Youth in 2000.

Australia and NZ was more like an old fashioned tour as we could drink and we still had to train. USA we didn't train and couldn't really drink. It was also nice to have to be put up by different families.

My best memory was seeing a form of a Haka before we played a college in NZ and in America was getting to play in my dream position of ten (after our meaningful game had finished, we had an extra runaround). Also the party a few of us boys got invited to in Greenwich, USA and the hot tub hotties there will live long in the memory.

Rev, that sounds UNREAL!! Especially hot tub hotties

School tour to the States before Central Park was "cleaned up". First day 40 players plus coaches go for a run through the park. 2 cocky wingers sprint ahead racing towards an underpass and disappear out of sight.

The muggers who thought they had an easy target got the shock of their lives when the rest of the squad entered the tunnel Apparently this incident was scarier than trying to tackle Jonah Lomu.


Most amazing tour was to Argentina - the size and intensity of the crowd at Rovigo, for a students game was amazing. Spine-tingling is an understatement.


Best tours for off-field exploits - Easter tours to Wales. Great club houses, great drinking, great singing, great girls.

Wort tours on the field - Easter tours to Wales. Dirty, dirty bar stewards they were.

Cari wrote:oops I just realised this is a thread for people who've played

No not necessarily. Any type of tour really. Why not. Put back up your Tommy bowe memory.

have to say my most receant tour last easter to ireland with my u16's team was a laugh.

there was this bus stop outside our hotel and it was where all the girls aged like 16/17 would meet to go to a party, so obviously we introduced ourselves and everyone seemed to have a good time, then one of the irish girls asked what we in wales called a french kiss, so we replied a snog, and fair play to one of my mates he took the opportunity and asked this girl what is a french kiss and well she showed him (she had had half a bottle of vodka so...)

not really a great story but was just a general good laugh. oh and a pube sandwich forfeit...

I never went on any tours, there was one for Tondu to Holland just before I retired but I missed it sadly.

Played italy U21 in Sicily. I was tight head...their scrum half was bigger.

Scotland v Ireland - Edinburgh 1979. 1sts played Heriot Watt Univ. in a serious game. The rest played Heriots 2nd team and I was roped in at the last minute and still under the influence. We had a guy playing out-half who was miles better than anyone else on our team and he chose to pass the ball to me on the wing at every opportunity. The students from Heriot Watt had a field day

Malta 2008 - I woke up naked from the waist down after being put to bed the night before by the police, being as I was incapable of getting to bed myself.

Tour to Holland, had the entire team go down the waterslides in file in the afternoon following a morning practice urine up in the holiday village bar. The staff weren't happy and were thrown in the pool before we were thrown out.