Welsh rugby fans make mammoth 11,000 mile journey on five aeroplanes via six countries to make South Africa clash

It's the kind of never-say-die attitude Alun Wyn Jones himself would be proud of. Four Wales rugby fans turned up to the airport and found out their flight to South Africa was cancelled - and no direct flights were available for days. But rather than turn around and admit defeat, as well as cut their losses sell their match tickets, the plucky quartet weren't giving up that easy. They were determined to get to Cape Town - even if it meant taking the most ridiculous of routes to get there.

And over the next 36 hours that's precisely what happened for Roger Francis and his pals Ryslwyn Kinsey, Paul Griffiths, and Gazzy Davies - who took five planes and end up in six countries during their 11,000 mile trip.

Speaking from Nairobi Airport after a 10-hour layover Roger, said: "It was either go across Africa or go home, so we thought let's do it."

The four's epic trek began on Tuesday July 12 when they arrived at Birmingham Airport and only to find out their original flight with Lufthansa was cancelled.

It was then the group began concocting a plan. They spent the next two hours, meticulously working out how they could get to South Africa in time for Saturday's game - which was going to be the third and final game of Wales' Summer Tour against the Springboks.

Roger, who is from Cwmtwrch in the Swansea Valley, said: "We ended up getting a taxi from Birmingham to Heathrow and staying overnight there. Then a flight from Heathrow at 4.30am to Frankfurt, then Frankfurt to Amsterdam, then Amsterdam to Ghana then Nairobi.

"We've had a 10-hour wait in Nairobi. We were meant to get to Cape town at 10am on Wednesday morning, it's now going to be 10pm on Thursday night."

And fortunately, the detour didn't cost the group too much extra.