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Thursday 18 June 2015

Blues brother


The long and winding road, see y'all in 500 miles......

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Bsby on Board - Oops...

Lost the baby bonnet from the roof already - oops sorry French man whose car it went under!

Team Tankslapper!

Ready for 5 countries in a day...

T shirts looking good guys !

And relax !

Too early for the blue drinks ?

Registration underway !

On a mission for Mr Bridger

Pre rally line ups .....say cheese !

Arrived in Lille

Crokers Coach Tours have arrived in Lille. Now checked in at Hostel Gastama and off to registration at Bar Oz for a few bevvies!

Police

Already pulled and told to remove beer pump and pool table or have fine..  welcome to France. Wandering arms are not amused.

Team Tankslapper

Made it to Lille but...oh no! Poor Vera!

Resting up in Lille

Hi all, got to Lille nice and early. Got our heads down and found something to eat ready for tonights round of drinks.
Had a breakdown at 6pm whilst giving the car its last little run before the off in the early hours. The main oil supply pipe to the camshafts from the oil pump decided to spring a leak. Two hours later all fixed and and a fault free run to Lille ensued.

P.S. Go find a cake
shop

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Teams en route.....

Stowaways ?

Distracted...




Baby on Board have stumbled across a LOT of men playing beach volleyball in Dunkirk. We may be 

1st Break Down

Broke down next to the Dukes Head Ashford. Hopefully now make it to Folkestone after 4 hour delays.

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Team Tankslapper !

Hayley (right) and Vera ready for the off..

Team Tankslapper!

Hayley (now with a slow puncture) and Vera (with a slow driver) arrived Folkestone - looks like they'll make it abroad at least. Not easy punching in your booking number with a drivers window that won't go down...last of that problem since passenger window perfect. Continental toll booths here we come. Last call gotta go x

Ypres and On!

Ferry made, we've moved on from Dunkirk to Ypres (a favourite stop off of ours), refuelling with beers and snacks.

Lille is on our sights!

Team Goat x

Crokers Coach Tours is departing!

En route to Dover


Team Blues Brothers are on route to Dover. Seem to be getting lots of attention, lots of people taking pics!!! And we have found a 'pub on a SAAB'.....what more could we want! Looking forward to meeting y'all 😁. Safe trip

Missing the ferry

Teams wandering arms and night fever running late and going to miss the 11-50 ferry. Heading for the 13:30 Dover Calais on my ferry link.

Euro Tunnel

What time is everyone catching the EuroTunnel?

Stuck on the M25 need to catch the 11.50 and be there for 11.20.....cutting it fine.

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Arjun, Divyesh & Vikram

Team MLG in missing the 12pm sailing shocker!

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The morning before the actual race but for us the travel begins today. We are eager and raring to go now after a few months of preparations. We will be heading down to Folkestone from Leicester for the 11.20 EuroTunnel to Calais in our M reg Mercedes C200, so if you see us do give us a honk or a wave. 

We can not believe we have actually made it, after our original car becoming unfit for purpose only 4 days ago on Monday and us only getting our replacement car at 5pm yesterday. 

It's our first Wacky Rally and we are sure it will be all the fun we expect and much more! 

We have been raising fund for a great charity, Action For Kids, so if you could be so kind to donate a few pounds it would be greatly appreciated. https://www.justgiving.com/divyesh-joshi1/

Looking forward to meeting you all, and good luck with your travels. 

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Arjun, Vikram & Divyesh

Team MLG in LOLVO en route

Heading for the Start Line

> Crack of dawn and the Team Goat Troop are on the way.
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> Somehow, no matter how much extra time we give it, the M25 always seems to F-up!
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> So we have 50mins to do an hour drive and make our non-flexible ferry crossing ... Foot on the gas we think!
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> Quick stop off at Ypres on the other side and onwards to Lille.
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> See you guys there for a Beer! (Or two..)
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> Team Goat x