On Sunday we went to a rugby match

A scrum very close to us

The local team Stade La Rochelle were hosting Stade Francais and we bought a couple of tickets online so as to add a new expereince to our french sojourn. SOR has been to many a rugby match but Peter had never (ever) been to one. Indeed he has only (ever) watched rugby on the telly when SOR was so engaged an he couldn't be bothered leaving the room!

Lots of standing around!

 

The only tickets we could get were "ground" tickets that basically meant we were standing on the level ground behind one of the goal posts. The match did not start until 4.30pm and so it was getting  bit gloomy for the very old digtal camera we keep here in Nantilly to take any sort of a photo.

As best as we could see it was quite an exciting game and there was a great atmosphere with very vocal local supporters chanting "Ici, ici, c'est La Rochelle" but quite why I just don't know. The final score was 26- 26 so a bit of a disappointment for La Rochelle as they were the only team to have the lead at anytime in the match, but then again La Rochelle are bottom of the league so I suppose some points would have been very welcome to them.