Ragin' Jackson

INTERNATIONAL TRIPS

Dec 1999 - Jan 2000

"Grand Slam" Rugby Union tour with Ipswich Grammar School

• Caerphilly, Wales
• First game. Very cold and muddy.
• Billeted
• Cork, Ireland
• Replacement game after our host school qualified for national championships and could no longer play. Horizontal sleet.
• Hostel.
• Dublin, Ireland
• Fair weather.
• Billeted
• Edinburgh, Scotland
• -10 degrees. Played second half but had to come off soon after with numb hands.
• Cold shower in full kit to defrost.
• Billeted.
• Derbyshire?, England
• No memory of this leg, but it happened...
• Played a curtain-raiser to the local senior men's team. They deemed the pitch unsafe after our game because of sharp ice on the ground.
• Leominster, England
• Game cancelled with snow.
• Billeted.
• London, England
• Christmas.
• Played London Irish under lights and won.
• Hotel lost power for most of Boxing Day.
• Paris, France
• Hotel in red light district.
• Most of the city closed/flooded after a storm the previuos day.
• San Francisco, USA
• Hotel in Novato, over the Golden Gate.
• New Years Eve.

Jun - Jul 2010

European Music Festivals with Nat & Rhys

• Berlin, Germany
• Pearl Jam
• supported by Ben Harper & Relentless 7
• Met Maayke & Erik
• Gdynia, Polan
• Heinekin Open'er
• Pearl Jam, Ben Harper & Relentless 7, The Kills, Cypress Hill
• Lisbon, Portugal
• Optimus Alive!
• Pearl Jam, Gomez, Florence + The Machine
• Madrid, Spain
Bar crawl with Nat. Sangria, Tapas, etc
Reina Sofia, del Prado

Jun 2013

New Zealand to visit Rhys & Snare

• Auckland
• Rotorua

Oct 2014

USA with Rhys & Nat

• San Francisco
• Treasure Island
• The New Pornographers, Janelle Monae
• Denver
• Pearl Jam
• Denver Broncos
• Boulder
• New Orleans
• Voodoo Experience
• Death From Above 1979, John Butler Trio, Foo Fighters

Mar 2016

USA for Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

• Boston
• NBA - Celtics
• NHL - Bruins

Oct 2016

Austin, TX and Europe with Krystle

• Austin, USA
• Copenhagen, Denmark
• Den Hague, Netherlands
• Sappemeer, Netherlands
• Cardiff, Wales
• London, England

Jun - Jul 2017

Europe for MathSport Conference

• Florence, Italy
• Padua, Italy
• Milan, Italy
• Werchter, Belgium
• Middelkerke, Belgium

Jun 2018

Malaysia for Pam & Pat's Wedding

• Penang
• We got engaged! At the Tropical Spice Garden.
• Kuala Lumpur

Oct 2018

USA with Lilli

• Seattle
• Napa
• San Francisco
• New York (L.E.S.)
• Washington, DC
• New York (Brooklyn)
• Los Angeles

Nov 2018

English Premier League presentation with Champion Data

• London

Jul 2019

European Honeymoon with Lilli

• Brussels, Belgium
• Werchter, Belgium
• Dusseldorf, Germany
• Koln, Germany
• Nice, France
• Aix-en-Provence, France
• Den Hague, Netherlands
• Cardiff, Wales
• Stockholm, Sweden

Sep 2019

Cardiff for Nat's wedding and Japan for Maur's 70th with Lilli

• Cardiff, Wales
• Shinagawa, Japan
• Kyoto, Japan
• Kanazawa, Japan
• Tokyo, Japan