Wrote by Tristane on Friday, September 21st 2007 at 2:50 pm

Last Sunday, for a brief moment, I thought that rugby fever had got me! After leaving my humble abode at nine in the morning, France Inter (radio station) had already mentioned three times the sporting event that’s making Paris (what am I talking about, I mean France, the world even!) buzz at the moment. So, after half an hour of listening to talk about an oval-shaped ball, I was passing in front of the Eiffel Tower when I saw, in the middle, a huge rugby ball - normal, it’s the rugby world cup after all!

When I got to Marne la Vallée, the car next to me was sporting the Springboks’ colours. So here I was, pursued by a competition about which I had only managed to note one thing: France wasn’t likely to win! So, put yourself in my shoes - when I got to the Resort and I saw seventeen of the South African rugby team’s players, I almost called my shrink for hallucinating!

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