Monday, 1 September 2008

Day One. Calais - Interlarken

We got to the gathering point quite early and thought is this the right place. No one was there. Then we saw some vehicles which were similarly decorated as ours and decided to follow them. The sight of so many personalised cars was a sight to behold.
After last minute decorations were added to the cars. The clackson sounded announcing the start of the rally, erm I mean trip.
Challenge for today, Take photo´s of foreign national license plates en-route to Interlaken.
We saw lots of fellow wreckers driving up real close to the big lorries to take a picture and then speeding off. After a while the lorry drivers got annoyed as five or six cars would get close behind them then pull away. The lorries would swerve out to scare the wreckers. We played this game too, but our camera took so long to focus that more often than not we got blurred pictures or pictures of our vehicle´s interior. We gave up the challenge, but still managed to get 17 different nationality plates.

Arrived at Interlaken. The sat nav got us lost again, when we told it to take us to our hotel. There were 3 haupstrasse´s in Interlaken. And it took us to the wrong one. We had to stop and ask a local gentleman who took ages to direct us. Eventually we found our hotel, but it was 2 km from the meeting place.
The trek to Hooters wasn't very eventful, though the night turned out to be more then a certain MHSS crew can handle. "Rock-a-bye-baby, on the tree top..."
Met a few more teams and swapped stories. At the end of the evening, we had a long walk back to the hotel.

Thua

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