travel - The journeys out.
Philip Sargent
The first part of the log is traditionally taken up by the journey out.
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The journeys out. ?
Team Griffiths - Makins [Naomi Griffiths nee Makins - ed.]
Arrived at Ramsgate 2 hrs early so had to eat a lot before embarking on ferry. Zapped down to Reinböllen at warp factor 9 to drink beer with Ben et al - missed Ben by 10 mins. Arrived in Staudnwirt at 4pm Sunday having gently grockled round Hallstatt all afternoon.
Team Fucked-Viva
Arrived at Dover 5 hours early - no decent beer. One fuse stop and a trip round Dachau concentration camp to make Austria seem nice. Arrived in a piece after 16 hours.
Becky
The most problematical part of my journey was getting to Victoria for a 6-O'Clock train. This accomplished, train, plane, train + train (the last stopping at every lamp post) then feet got me to Staudnwirt around 6.20pm.
Team Bowers - Van Millingen - Whigglesworth
The hovercraft wasn't full of eels. Stopped at Rheinböllen (NB spelling miss Makins) - the place the crab broke down 1979 expedition with café with gorgeous little girls in white teeshirts, but it was shut & Julian had gone anyway. Zipped through Austria until a little man waved us down, demanded 100 schillings from John & muttered something about Radar control & 67 kph instead of 50 kph. Staudnwirt in time for several beers.
Team Chas & Dave (gertcha !)
well.....
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chas failed his driving test and we were still repairing phil's car on saturday morning but we ate a pagbol and set off to dover and the radiator boiled over for the first time in a petrol station and so we filled it up and it started with clouds of steam and after a greasy chips we got on the ferry but only just cos we were last and we had to sleep on deck and then we got to zeebrugge and it was four in th emorning so off we set and at first it was ok but after a few hundred miles thrashing it got hotter and hotter and we had to keep stopping to refill the radiator and then we had no more german money and nearly ran out at munich but then found you could use english money so we filled up and at the austrian border i nearly lost a contact lens and it got dark and we got lost and the radiator boiled over again and again and sometimes the cylinders filled with water andlockedtheengineandwegotlostinKuchlandtheradiatorboiledoveragainanditwasgettinghardertostartandonce wehadtoforageinavalleytofindsomewaterandthenwetookoffthebonnettocooltheenginebutitstartedtorainandthe enginedrownedinbadausseebutwithaquicksquirtofwd40itstartedandwelimpedintogrundlseeataboutoneinthe morningaftertwentyonehoursdriving god was i buggered. [insert photo of Dave flattening the cylinder head with a file before he left Cambridge]
TR6 Nicky & Tony
Managed to avoid Plank etc. in Dover, went swimming & drank in the Louis Armstrong. Wended our way towards Austria saving time by not bothering to eat. Nicky slid down a glass partition at a motorway cafe in a dead faint. Went swimming. Hit a highly decorated town (Wasserburg) in the evening before cruising on down via a bar or two to the car park. Walked up to 113 then above, found an open entrance (60' pitch), returned to meet everybody at Bar Fischer (having seen John's car at the car park) before finally finding everybody at the campsite bar.
Team reclining seats
A featureless thrash from Zeebrugge to Wurzburg for a walk + a sausage, thence to Ingolstadt where Philip's eyes were closing as a consequence of Gail's having given up between Rushden and Cambridge.... Failed to find campsite at Ingolstadt - thrashed on down to a "service station" past Munchen where we crashed on **Reclining Seats** and slept 10 hours. To Grundlsee without incident (to the sound of Gail's snores) and a drink at the OTHER Grundlsee campsite. Spotted Mess tent in between and so set off for a walk up to the plateau...