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We all assembled in a car
park in Calais and the sound and sight of approximately 200 cars was
unbelievable, sirens, flashing lights. We will get some video footage and
photos added soon.
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The convoy set off for
the long drive through France to Sarnen in Switzerland approximately 530 miles
and we gave up counting how many tolls we had to pay! As the miles went by the
welcome sight of another mad car decorated for the event was a welcome sight
and broke the boredom of driving in France.
Every service station was
littered with team cars, bonnets in the air for emergency repairs or just to
cool down, not "Dave" he just plodded along at a steady speed eating the
miles.
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Entering Switzerland was
a nice milestone and what a nice place, our hotel was located a couple of miles
from the main event hotel but the view was worth the extra few miles. We
decided it may be prudent to check the oil and water levels as the last leg of
the journey involved some steep hills. "Dave" had used no oil and no water, our
£100 car was behaving like a £10,000 car.
We took a trip to the
main hotel to hand in our
points from the days
challenge which was some crappy old scrabble game to take photos of French
number plates and do something with it, as you can tell my enthusiasm for this
was some what lacking and I would have rather boiled my head in tar, but the
rest of the team got stuck in.
On arriving at the main
hotel we find the the Marshals were only just showing up and nobody seemed to
know what was going on. A complete damp squid. So it was back to our hotel for
some supper and a reflection on the days events.
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Day 2 >> |
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