\n But after finally catching up on England\u2019s World Cup win over Croatia it was off to the airport I went, only to be stuck in the longest security queue I\u2019ve ever seen.\n<\/p>\n
\n After finally locating the Bulls players, I got hold of poor Phoenix Steinwede, who had not only never seen me in his life, but was also still reeling from finding out the card machine at Starbucks was broken.\n<\/p>\n
\n Into the departure lounge after speaking to the Aussie then, and a sea of red, amber and black awaited, caffeinating, boozing, scranning, certainly enough for me to locate some travelling Bradford fans to talk about the trip.\n<\/p>\n
\n On the plane, you had the Bulls squad playing cards up at the front, screaming babies all around and me trying to write a 500-word article with 15 per cent laptop battery.\n<\/p>\n
\n After being stood outside in the baking heat upon arrival, I at least got to enjoy a natter with Bulls\u2019 commercial manager Ian Stafford and shared a taxi with CEO Jason Hirst to Perpignan city centre.\n<\/p>\n
\n Now, the real French adventure awaits\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But after finally catching up on England\u2019s World Cup win over Croatia it was off to the airport…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}