Rugby

So, I went to see Harlequins versus Gloucester yesterday evening.  I had suggested this as something to do after Christmas whilst I was back home, and didn't think any more of it.  Two fairly mediocre sides in the top tier of English rugby with a few players good enough to play internationally - I wasn't particularly expecting much.  So imagine my surprise to find out that instead of the game being played at The Stoop - Harlequin's home ground with a capacity of 15,000 - the game was actually played at Twickenham in front of a crowd of nearly 78,000!  Didn't even realize all this until after the game - we had just followed the rest of the fans out of the train station to the ground (in retrospect, it was a huge crowd and didn't acknowledge the fact that it was actually Twickenham - despite all the signs indicating it as the home of world and English rugby).  As for the game itself - after a fairly forgettable scoreless opening 30 minutes, the game got a lot more interesting with quite a few tries and Harlequins managing to hold on for a tight win.  Squeezed into our seats, we were a bit unlucky to be seated in the corner where not a lot of the action took place - but still good to go and watch a top tier club rugby game for the first time in nearly 20 years.