Where to begin?
Well, the Beavers are certainly far behind in their updates. I had hoped to put some photos up as well with this post, but again, this comuter does not seem to suppor that function. Not to mention it is all written in….German?
Despite bets to the contrary, we have managed to make it to Vienna, Austria! The road so far has not been too too bad, given all the potential to go wrong. We are currently convoying it with four other teams - Team Fudge, Catch us if you Khan (we can!), Mad hatters, and Cake or Death. We have taken to calling each other family, as we have had teams join and leave, but this core group has been more or less consistent. We are also known as ‘The Lost Convoy’ because we make it into the city we WANT to be in, and then spend two hours driving around in circles getting lost. We even have official hats and, while they dont improve our navigating skills any, they are pretty cool.
It is likely we will be convoying with Catch us if you khan for the majority or this journey, if not all, so if you want to track our progress so far (and watch where we go in the future) you can watch us at http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0q22oe1fjbNS7ZRrmaGB43uP3S961HADz apparently you can even watch us go back and forth as we get ridiculously lost.
The car is holding up well and, surprisingly, we are all picking up standard alright.Although the number of stalls that occur is directly related to how stressful a situation we find ourselves in. We had some problems on the first day of the rally, what with not getting a new gear box fitted until the daz BEFORE we left (therefore leaving little to no opportunity to practice driving), and then finding our that the gear box was not fitted with a speedometer, nor a working odometer as a consequence. So we never know how fast we are going, or how far we have travelled. Our brake lights ALSO didnt work for the first day and a half (before we got a fellow rallier to check them out), so I had to drive into the centre of London with none of these things. Who needs to follow laws anyways….
Other than that, we accidentally took a couple bumps too fast and completely destroyed our roof rack for a bit, but with a little tea and bisquits on the side of a Czech road (along with lots of helpful non-mechanically challenged boys), we managed to fix it in decent time. We are going to be spending some of today exploring Vienna and then hit up Budapest - any teams still there? We hear McWhippy is stuck sorting our IDP stuff, so hopefully we can regain some of the original convoy but if anyone else is in the area get in touch with us any of the above listed teams.
Also, the Beavers phone number is 44 792 406 2320. I do not fully fathom how to work these UK phones, but texting does seem to work alright so get in touch!
More stories to come! and hopefully pictures sometime soon.
Andi.
