Karen Cleary, the company's destination manager, says trips are done in groups no larger than 16 people and that they seek out eco-friendly accommodations.
Fulham face FC Twente from Holland, Odense from Denmark and Wisla Krakow from Poland in Group K. Stoke have several long trips in Group E – they face Dynamo Kiev, Besiktas and Hapoel Tel Aviv – while Birmingham are in Group H with Club Brugge, Braga and Maribor.
Even bathroom trips during camping should be taken in groups.
I loathe travelling in groups, as did all the people who chose to make this trip.
Other military analysts were invited on trips, but only in groups.
I've met 14-year-olds who took it on a bus ride to the Everglades; college-age kids tripping in small groups at home; ravers floating all night on Ecstasy at dance clubs; and a doctor and a P.R. exec, both in their late 30's, married with children, who hired a band and bought 40 hits for a friend's backyard barbecue.
Traveling in groups, avoiding trips in the wee hours and remaining in touch with the local police are some of precautions to be taken.
Adam lived in Aurora and Fish lived in Galena, so they saw each other only once a month and in the summers went on uneventful canoe trips in lower Wisconsin with groups of angry kids, wearing bandannas and white rope bracelets.
Five-night group trips in July and August, from £1,250pp B&B inc hotel, flights, transfers and four whale-watching trips.
Research conducted last year by Im In!, a Waltham, Mass.-based company whose Web site helps users create gender-specific group trips, in collaboration with Compete, a Boston-based online market research firm, found that an estimated 20 million men currently spend $10 billion to $12 billion a year on guys-only getaways.
