As much as he loves life in Cardiff, Jamie Roberts admits it’s going to be tough leaving Australia behind when he heads home with his family later this month. The Wales and Lions centre will be bidding farewell to his beach-side base in Manly after completing his stint with the Waratahs in Super Rugby.
It has, he says, been an “awesome chapter” in a career story that has taken in so many great locations over the years, including the likes of Paris, Bath, London, Cambridge and Cape Town. It’s also been the perfect setting for him and his Aussie fiancée Nicole Ramson as young parents, with Nicole having given birth to their second child, daughter Elodie May, in March. With son Tomos Rhys just 16 months old, the couple have their hands full, but their stay in the Sydney suburbs has been a time in their lives they will always cherish.
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