Come on the Lilywhites....!!
The Abraham brothers decided to jump ship at this point and take a detour via train and hire car to rendezvous with their father in Valkeakoski (Finland) to watch Rhyl crash out of the UEFA Cup against FC Haka on away goals.
By the way if you are ever thinking of making a detour to Valkeakoski don’t bother unless you absolutely love the smell of paper.
Lenin was a left-handed middle-order slogger right?
The rest of the group spent the day enjoying the sights and sounds of St Petersburg. Clearly not enough cricket on this tour (mental note for next time) as an impromptu knockabout took place outside the Winter Palace.
The Bolsheviks had ushered in an era of communsim in the October revolution of 1917 with their assault on the Palace. Just under 90 years later the square was witnessing Andy Pierce’s cut shot off Tom Horne’s bowling – what would Lenin have made of it all? Billy Bowden refused to see him lying in state in Moscow, I know that much…..
Faganov picka pochksit orrr twoo
Never once on the trip had the group felt threatened by the criminal element of Russia but we had been made aware of gangs of pickpockets operating on the metro system. Roddy “the Rodweiler” Brooks is also not the kind of guy you mess with. But a group of theives on the St Petersburg metro surrounded him and stole the big fella’s wallet.
Australian have-a-go hero Matt Somerford almost got trapped between the metro car and the tracks attempting to fend off the attackers.
Unfortunately all Roddy’s cards and cash were in his wallet but luckily he was able to cancel the cards before further damage could be done.
The group then caught the overnight train from St Petersburg to Moscow, not before a minor panic as Tom Horne and Gaz Roberts cut it fine with the departure while searching for food while the Abraham brothers spent a civil night in a Helsinki Holiday Inn.
The Abraham brothers decided to jump ship at this point and take a detour via train and hire car to rendezvous with their father in Valkeakoski (Finland) to watch Rhyl crash out of the UEFA Cup against FC Haka on away goals.
By the way if you are ever thinking of making a detour to Valkeakoski don’t bother unless you absolutely love the smell of paper.
Lenin was a left-handed middle-order slogger right?The rest of the group spent the day enjoying the sights and sounds of St Petersburg. Clearly not enough cricket on this tour (mental note for next time) as an impromptu knockabout took place outside the Winter Palace.
The Bolsheviks had ushered in an era of communsim in the October revolution of 1917 with their assault on the Palace. Just under 90 years later the square was witnessing Andy Pierce’s cut shot off Tom Horne’s bowling – what would Lenin have made of it all? Billy Bowden refused to see him lying in state in Moscow, I know that much…..
Faganov picka pochksit orrr twoo
Never once on the trip had the group felt threatened by the criminal element of Russia but we had been made aware of gangs of pickpockets operating on the metro system. Roddy “the Rodweiler” Brooks is also not the kind of guy you mess with. But a group of theives on the St Petersburg metro surrounded him and stole the big fella’s wallet.
Australian have-a-go hero Matt Somerford almost got trapped between the metro car and the tracks attempting to fend off the attackers.
Unfortunately all Roddy’s cards and cash were in his wallet but luckily he was able to cancel the cards before further damage could be done.The group then caught the overnight train from St Petersburg to Moscow, not before a minor panic as Tom Horne and Gaz Roberts cut it fine with the departure while searching for food while the Abraham brothers spent a civil night in a Helsinki Holiday Inn.
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