Northern Ireland, Russia and now Oamaru.
It has been a journey around the rugby world for former Highlander Ryan Bambry.
Bambry has been overseas for more than six years playing rugby and is now back in Dunedin for a short time before he starts a new job in Oamaru.
Bambry, a first five-eighth or fullback, has been appointed director of rugby at Waitaki Boys' High School.
The job is one Bambry (31) is excited about and he hopes to have Waitaki back into the top echelon of rugby schools in the south.
''It is a good opportunity to get a foot in the door. I think by their own admission they have not been getting the results that they want to,'' Bambry said.
''It will be good to get in there and get it going again. The passion is still there, and there is potential there, for sure. We've got to step up to the mark set by Otago Boys'.''
Bambry played one season for the Highlanders in 2006 and also played for Otago. He was a leading points scorer in club rugby for the Dunedin side for a couple of season.
After 2006 he looked overseas and played three years in Northern Ireland, for the Hinch club in Belfast.
''They were a national league one club, so the standard was quite high. It was semi-professional and the games were quite well supported.
''It was a good time, great years, really. I lived and played the Irish way and it was a good time to be there.''
After three years in Ireland, Bambry and his partner Tash (now his wife) were set on coming back to New Zealand to live.
''But my agent got a deal to go play in Russia. I thought we'd give it a go and play there for one season. We ended up staying there for three years.''
Russia is an emerging rugby home for many New Zealanders.
Former Otago and Highlanders halfback Toby Morland also spent time in Russia but is now back in New Zealand, starting a business in Palmerston North.
Others to have gone there include former Otago fullbacks Glen Horton and Craig Clare, while former All Black prop Campbell Johnston is also playing in the country.
Bambry was based in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, which gets colder than minus 20degC in winter.
Not surprisingly, rugby is played in the summer months.
''It actually gets really hot there in summer. A lot of people don't believe me when I say that but it can get very hot.
''We managed to miss the hardest bit of winter. But it would be hard, really hard to do a winter there.''
There, rugby was based around aggression and using size, as opposed to skill.
''They are just big. They are really big men and that is how they play. The skill level is not that high. There are two or three good teams in a 10-team competition so you might get one hard game every four or five weeks.''
With Russia such a massive country, travel to games took a while.
''You are talking about a five-hour flight to get to Moscow. One game we went there by train and it was a 25-hour trip. We had to leave three days before the game.''
With sevens now an Olympic sport, more money was being ploughed into the game in Russia.
''But it is still not played in schools, so they are not picking up a ball until they are 17-18. They need the game to be played in schools to make any real progress.''
His team, STM, won the Russian championship last year but three years in the country was enough.
''It was an interesting experience but I knew it was time to come home. We'd had a wee baby boy and didn't want to raise him in Russia.''
So the couple and baby Cullen, now 1, have returned home. Bambry, who comes from Wairarapa originally, is set to move to Oamaru in a couple of weeks to start his new job.
He will not be playing, putting all his energies into his new position at Waitaki Boys'.
''I'm not afraid to admit I could have done things a bit better when I was young. But what I know now, hopefully I can bring that to Waitaki Boys'.''
