There's not a lot we can really say about the journey to Calais as that's exactly what it was, no dramas, no passports forgotten or owt like that. Two stops for fuel and that was about it.
Made the ferry in good time although we were searched before getting on the ferry. They confiscated my old 5 litre petrol can as you're not allowed to take filled fuel cans onto the boat.
It was full of petrol that'd come out of my Dyane when I rebuilt her so the petrol was probably about 8 years old. I hope someone nicked it and put it in their Eurobox-8 year old petrol and modern engine management.................
Met a few other teams on the boat (Smashy and Nicey, Andy and Paul, Mark and Richard and Daz and Co to name but a few) had a beer and, before we knew it, we were in France and the adventure was really starting to unfold!
The Thursday evening saw us meeting at the Cite Europe in Calais for registration and beers and catch-up with teams old and new-it was fantastic to meet the "Newbies" who were already getting well into the swing of things.
Beers were drunk, stories exchanged, more beers (Paul and Kim!)before heading of for some shuteye bofore the off in the morning.
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