Where others go to train...

Teams train in all sorts of cold, muddy locations - the training pitch is not normally the one with the best facilities or resources (like, for instance, at Letchworth where grass is at a premium for most of the year!).

The Cayman Island national women's team have similar problems as they prepare for the Caribbean & Central American Sevens championships, starting in Mexico next month. As you see (right) they have no grass at all, and distinctly damp underfoot. Not that we can have too much sympathy for them...

But this is a brilliant photo, don't you think? Not only are the props in the picture doing some pretty impressive lifting, there's a good high catch from the second row, all in a perfect setting - the sun behind them as they stand on their Caribbean beach. You wonder if this was just chance, or whether it was staged... and if so how many attempts it took. And that is before you get to questions like how you lift someone wearing only a swimsuit!

It also shows how wide and varied the rugby world can be. From beach rugby in the Caribbean to lumirugbya in Finland (left) to the mud of Hertfordshire (give it a few more weeks!).

I know where I'd prefer to be, though...