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My digital photographs of our cross-continental jaunt
By: mr.scruff Date: June 15, 2012, 9:53 am
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Here are some photos from our recent journeyage to Jan's
Birmabright Weekend in the Czech Republic.
Apart from Strang, who did the sensible thing and got a boat
from Yorkshire and not the arse of Kent, and the van den Berg
brothers who of course live in Holland, we all met up at a
campsite overlooking the white cliffs about 15 mins from the
ferry port.
Of course despite planning to arrive mid-afternoon, we arrived
in the pitch darkness to find Jim and Lucy with the 86” (ESL)
and Mike109 already pitched up, Mike having already had a
marvellous jaunt from Cornwall across southern England in his
80”.
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Next morning we were up bright and early, and soon made tracks
for the ferry.
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Once off the boat, Munkie’s ambulance needed a bit of attention
before we could continue.
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Full-time Land Rover mechanic landyboy was thrilled by this.
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After Brenda the ambulance had been fettled we set off, bound
for a campsite at Freilingen in Germany ([George Smiley] Our bit
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The first day was largely boring northern European roads and
going round Brussells, we got stuck in a massive traffic jam.
Here I had a jubilee clip dislodge at very handy moment (not)
and dump most of my coolant, luckily a two-minute stop had us
back in business again.
At some point we lost Jon, Alex and Frank the 109 and found a
supermarket for much needed food, unfortunately it was shut but
it was a good leg-stretching point.
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Munkie’s exhaust ‘repair’ was holding up well…
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We eventually arrived at the Eifel Camp to find this lot already
on the beer.
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So we set up camp and joined in… !!
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That night in the campsite bar we had some grub and quite a bit
of beer.
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DAY TWO
This was Thursday and our target was to get from the Eifel Camp
to Jan’s house in CZ (some 396 miles) without sitting on bastard
motorways all day.
Frank woke everybody up.
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The campsite didn’t allow vehicle tinkering so we found a handy
layby.
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Somewhat amazingly a biker stopped who had a 107 Station Wagon
at home! He laughed at our assorted jalopies and went on his
merry way.
Quickly we realised we would have to hit an Autobahn to have any
chance of getting to Jan’s at a decent hour (we still failed)
and so took advantage of some services to fuel up/tighten
fanbelts/throw away split open batteries that were boiling over.
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Dutch Hell’s Angels gave us several drive-bys
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As we passed from Germany ([George Smiley] Their bit [/George
Smiley]) into the Czech Republic, the weather turned notably
gloomy
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In fact, it bloody pissed down, and it was pitch-black by the
time we rocked up to Jan’s place for a welcome BBQ and a beer or
three. Here we also met Stefan
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Brenda the ambumulance had shat her battery and so Jan took
Munkie to a local car spares shop to buy a massive mutha of a
new one which cost 2,000 CZquids (about £62).
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Jan then led the way to Kutna Hora, where the Birmabright
Weekend is based.
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Unfortunately, Jan’s Series One suffered an evil electrical
demon and required some quick repairs, after Stig towed him off
the main road.
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We soon arrived at the campsite where the event is held and
noted we were in good company.
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Then the drinking began…
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The party animals – Xander, Mike, Alex and Jon – went into
downtown Kutna Hora to check out the clubbing scene while the
rest of us drank the night away at the campsite.
The next morning Mike’s 80 had gained an addition.
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SATURDAY
Was LANING DAY
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Back at camp we had some dinner
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And partied a bit more.
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Re: My digital photographs of our cross-continental jaunt
By: mr.scruff Date: June 15, 2012, 9:53 am
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SUNDAY
I was really looking forward to today, we went to the National
Agricultural Museum which was freakin GREAT
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I will put a lot more pics from the museum in Anoraks section.
Brilliant place!
From the museum we decided to head back into (the former) East
Germany, as we were all running a bit low on CZquids.
Bec and I had previously found a campsite near Zwickau at a
place called Legenfeld. We arrived in the pissing rain after a
100-odd mile journey to be met by a lovely little site…
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…with a narrow gauge railway running round it.
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Again, more pics coming up soon in ‘Anoraks’.
The next morning we headed for downtown Zwickau. This is where
the famous Trabant car was built and we hoped to visit the
August Horch Museum, based in part of the old factory. However
it isn’t open on Mondays so we made do with a wander around the
grounds. At this point we said goodbye to Strang, Xander and
Mathieu.
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Tribute to Trabant done, we hit the road again bound for a
campsite we’ve used before.
Which was shut! Well, not shut but extremely unfriendly to us
Land Rovering and tenting sorts.
Not to worry, we found a cracker not far away.
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The owner of the site was a proper nice bloke, and invited us
into what appeared to be his front room for some beers and to
watch what I can only assume was a German version of Inspector
Morse/Taggart/Midsomer Murders/Bergerac
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The next day (Tuesday) we hit the road again with the aim of
getting within three hours or so of Dunkirk for the boat home on
Wednesday.
Some great driving roads though Germany and into Belgium.
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A couple of diversions had us briefly foxed
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And we found a handy layby to have lunch in.
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We eventually found a campsite just over the Dutch border,
really nice place and where we did a bit of TLC – I adjusted my
clutch, Jim and Munkie bolted Brenda’s alternator back on.
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Then, Wednesday morning was the final blat to Dunkirk. We would
have been on the same boat as the others, but Brenda threw her
fan belt off.
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We caught the 6pm ferry and before we knew it were sat in
traffic on the M25. Six hours to get home!
A brilliant week with fantastic company.
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Re: My digital photographs of our cross-continental jaunt
By: NUGGETT Date: June 15, 2012, 10:07 am
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Excellent stuff and I especially like the munkmobile
- I want an ambi :o
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Re: My digital photographs of our cross-continental jaunt
By: mr.scruff Date: June 15, 2012, 10:10 am
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Cross Lisa's palms with silver and it could probably be
yours...! rofl
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Re: My digital photographs of our cross-continental jaunt
By: chally2 Date: June 15, 2012, 10:18 am
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Great story. I bet you had fun
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Re: My digital photographs of our cross-continental jaunt
By: craigderby Date: June 15, 2012, 10:32 am
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Cracking pics :thumbs:
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Re: My digital photographs of our cross-continental jaunt
By: NUGGETT Date: June 15, 2012, 10:36 am
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Cross Lisa's palms with silver and it could probably be
yours...! rofl
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I'll get one one day but not in the market right now. Funnily
enough both me and Lozza where watching the same one on ebay
this week, S2, search and resuce ambi - sweet!! One day..... (
I'll need two Tdi's then)
We digress...Stig said the rain in Germany was proper rain;
looked like a real adventure. :thumbs:
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Re: My digital photographs of our cross-continental jaunt
By: Lurch Date: June 15, 2012, 12:51 pm
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Quality leaferage, wish i was there 8) 8) 8)
When i saw Stig at latp, he said he hadnt filled up since
Dunkirk... I didnt realise Dougal was part of the D-day landings
;D
Thinking about it though,he would have been on the other
side......
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Re: My digital photographs of our cross-continental jaunt
By: drumlisden Date: June 15, 2012, 1:47 pm
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Great road trip. Makes me want to do one of these one day.
:thumbs:
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Re: My digital photographs of our cross-continental jaunt
By: Albert Ross Date: June 15, 2012, 1:55 pm
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I reckon the best engine for the Marshall ambulance would be the
Santana 6 cylinder 3412 Diesel... with a Stage 1 front, of
course.
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