For more insight into how Chinese travellers are experiencing Europe, this New Yorker story guides readers from start to finish of the new Grand Tour.

BBC: Chinese tourists pave a new route across Europe

Carter is one of 17 players in the current squad who also featured on the last grand slam tour in 2005, only the second time a New Zealand party had beaten England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales on the same tour, following the successful 1978 All Blacks.

BBC: Carter eyes 'grand slam' send-off

Thompson was on the bench for Northampton's Heineken Cup win in 2000, and he won the 2003 Six Nations Grand Slam with England and was selected for the 2005 Lions tour to New Zealand.

BBC: Injury forces Thompson to retire