There’s Hollywood too. Anthony Quinn stares at a camera, a guest of Le Negresco while filming Zorba The Greek in 1964. An early, handsome Richard Burton also looks straight to the camera lens sometime before the booze consumed his features. The caption explains it is an early photograph. ‘Before Elizabeth Taylor,’ it says.On a trip to Toulon on Tuesday we landed in the Springboks’ hotel. Hands down, the defending champions won the accommodation lottery.
On the wall at reception a television is programmed for a video loop of various members of the staff passing a World Cup Rugby ball to each other throughout the hotel. It begins with a high shot of a drone sweeping in from the bay and over the sprawling old doll of a property before the ball goes through the kitchens, gym, pool, lobby and finally planted in front of the camera with the logo “Springboks Welcome”.
In the cafes along the Esplanade Henri Boeuf adjacent to the hotel there are other reminders, a Bok poster with all the names beside the player photographs courtesy of Creperie Les Deux Freres.There is a thread of a history of rugby in the region. Stade Niçois, a French amateur rugby club based in Nice, was founded in 2012. It currently operates in Nationale, one division below the French professional Top14 and Pro D2 leagues.
Had it been held only in and around Paris, the presence would have been more intense but Paris acting as host for a Rugby World Cup this year and the Olympic Games next year would have chimed badly outside the capital.
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