Ok, so that's enough about the personalities. What about the trip itself?
Technically, it starts in Koblenz. Which, for any American readers, is in Germany. Which is in Europe. Which is outside of the USA somewhat to the east.
We'll be starting from South London, so it's a drive across The Channel and a four or so hour drive to Koblenz for an overnight stay before the big off.
Day one is a drive to Colditz castle, where we've all been before bizarrely enough, near-ish to Leipzig. Then it's onto Dresden where we overnight.
Day two starts with a drive to Stalag Luft III, the prison camp where Richard Attenborough and Donald Pleasance stuck two fingers up at Jerry and then got themselves shot. Then onto Prague for the night.
Day three comprises a drive to Regensburg and Munich possibly via Berchtesgaden (where I've also been before incidentally). It all finishes with tea and medals and a night or two at the Oktoberfest, assuming we make it that far.
The car itself needs to costs no more than £200 but there appears to be a bit of flexibly on investing in safety and MOT's etc. Whatever the case, there does need to be some jeopardy and unpredictability involved. It's kinda the point. 60 Teams, no support, no hotels booked etc. it's left pretty much down to you to sort yourself out. Which is fine.
That's going to be it for a while. I wanted to set the thing up with a few introductory posts as some clever people have already found the web address and started looking (I never knew I was so popular!). There won't be much more to say until we get closer to D-Day I don't think, but if there are any further updates, I'll stick something in.
Note: There is bound to be more than a few references to the war in these posts - there already has been. I would like to go on record as having a enormous respect for combatants of all nations, in any conflict. No-one can do anything more significant with their lives over putting life itself on the line. My writing may appear to treat the subject lightly, my awareness of the desperate and appalling nature of war remains acute.
I know that all sounds terribly serious but I wouldn't want the casual reader to conclude that I don't know or don't care about what I'm taking the piss out of.
Technically, it starts in Koblenz. Which, for any American readers, is in Germany. Which is in Europe. Which is outside of the USA somewhat to the east.
We'll be starting from South London, so it's a drive across The Channel and a four or so hour drive to Koblenz for an overnight stay before the big off.
Day one is a drive to Colditz castle, where we've all been before bizarrely enough, near-ish to Leipzig. Then it's onto Dresden where we overnight.
Day two starts with a drive to Stalag Luft III, the prison camp where Richard Attenborough and Donald Pleasance stuck two fingers up at Jerry and then got themselves shot. Then onto Prague for the night.
Day three comprises a drive to Regensburg and Munich possibly via Berchtesgaden (where I've also been before incidentally). It all finishes with tea and medals and a night or two at the Oktoberfest, assuming we make it that far.
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The car itself needs to costs no more than £200 but there appears to be a bit of flexibly on investing in safety and MOT's etc. Whatever the case, there does need to be some jeopardy and unpredictability involved. It's kinda the point. 60 Teams, no support, no hotels booked etc. it's left pretty much down to you to sort yourself out. Which is fine.
That's going to be it for a while. I wanted to set the thing up with a few introductory posts as some clever people have already found the web address and started looking (I never knew I was so popular!). There won't be much more to say until we get closer to D-Day I don't think, but if there are any further updates, I'll stick something in.
Note: There is bound to be more than a few references to the war in these posts - there already has been. I would like to go on record as having a enormous respect for combatants of all nations, in any conflict. No-one can do anything more significant with their lives over putting life itself on the line. My writing may appear to treat the subject lightly, my awareness of the desperate and appalling nature of war remains acute.
I know that all sounds terribly serious but I wouldn't want the casual reader to conclude that I don't know or don't care about what I'm taking the piss out of.
I stumbled across this as though I had just wished you "good luck" and the game was up. The Jerry Gestapo always found their man.
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