DURING the next five weeks chairman of Kendal Judo Club Peter Holme will use my blog to discuss the training programme of a group of boxers from the South Pacific at Kendal Dojo.

After over a week's training the Nauru boxers were allowed a rest day and two members of Kendal Judo Club took them on a drive round the Lake District.

It turned out to be an education for both the boxers and their drivers.

The highest point of Nauru Island is 71 metres and the only grass they have of any length is alongside the airport's runway, so driving through the lush Lake District countryside was an eye opener.

In Nauru there is no agriculture and so sheep and cattle were a bit of a mystery to them although they soon realised it was where some of their clothing and food came from. The size of our fells were equally amazing to them especially as we drove over Kirkstone pass and down into Ambleside.

Nauru has a freighter calling with all their food and other requirements once every six weeks. It also has one aeroplane flight a week in and one out. If you arrive too late for your flight you have a seven day wait for the next one.

The aircraft is a Boing 737-300 the only plane that can be used as the runway which crosses the island cannot take anything bigger without ending up in the sea. Drinking water is obtained by rooftop tanks and a very old de-salinisation plant.

The boys enjoyed their trip which ended with them having a cut throat razor shave at Ed's hairdressers in the Market place.