SALOU!!!!!! Not the French greeting, but the place to be over the Easter break.

With no basketball in Rimini this year, the men’s and women’s teams headed to the south east coast of Spain.

With only 5 players, the men’s team along with Gloucester were the only two teams not playing seriously out of nine.

Playing in fancy dress and often drunk, they somehow finished seventh, managing just one victory which happened to be against undefeated St. Mary’s, to deafening chants of “giant killers la la la”.

The girls faired better, winning three games including a one point victory over Scumhampton, but only finished fourth out of five!

With our care free attitude, constant chanting and loveable characters, everyone soon loved us and were chanting “We love you POMPEY, We do, OH POMPEY we love you!!” and also led to us being awarded the coveted “SUPER TEAM OF TOUR” trophy! The coach journey there was shared with Solent netball - Scummers, maybe; Hotties, definitely!

Rob Bassham and Yiannis made it their goal to seduce as many of them as possible!

The first night was a sailors fancy dress theme and by the end of it they had already gone through a third of them! Rob Pollard was also getting in on the action, holding hands in bed all night, with a MAN!

The 2nd night was an animal fancy dress theme with costumes such as a lady bird (Becky Lush), shark (Anthony “Jill” Mullins), frog (Julie Cheek) and turtle (Tash “The Cavern” Taylor).

A Leeds Met lacrosse player had an early night when being asked to be shark attacked by Jill, which ended in 3 stitches and blood everywhere.

The third night was tour t-shirts night, and was where we received our trophy, and the fourth night was a “Where’s Wally?” theme which seemed to go to people’s heads making them think they were actually hard to see: in the club, Rodders and Franzi could both be seen doing things they shouldn’t! All in all a great, unforgettable tour and bring on Tour ‘09!