In common with one or two recent threads on the forum this one has strayed off topic here and there. The original topic ought to have been opened on the Overseas Touring message board to be strictly accurate but if I start moving everything around because the contributors have strayed off topic or had some sort of conversation amongst themselves then confusion would reign supreme and forum users would soon get fed up of it.
To be fair to those who introduced a small diversion, although they did hijack the thread a wee bit at least they apologised, other forum members had something to puzzle over and discuss on a cold winters evening and in the great scheme of things no harm was done.
No doubt other threads will stray off topic from time to time in spite of my requests to stick to the matter in hand but hey ho, that's internet forums for you, you just can't stop these pesky forumites from communicating with each other.