Where's Rhodes now?

thompete6

Nov 27, 2021

1 min read

Looking at that hotly worded email from Rhodes, about the sports pages, it occurs to me he might be in-country! Not in one of those awful backwaters he favors. #Rhodes-to-Hell.

The kind of place he sometimes gets trapped in, desolate mountain villages, fetid African hotel rooms, dubious sub-continent couch-surfs. Count on me to keep you posted #peterthompsonbooks

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