It has been a crazy few days. At the time of writing we are in a german hostel in 'limburg'. The day before driving down to the launch we just finished the car after midnight.
The launch went less than smoothly, red suzi got caught in traffic and arrived barely hours before the launch. We did a parade lap and got off to dover, JUST in time for the ferry. Oh and silver suzi quite liked to vibrate its HT leads off and try to run on 2 cylinders. In fact it did just that before we got the the port. So Tim jumped out in the queue, whacked open the bonnet and replugged it quick. Security however obviously thought that he was stashing something illegal ad pulled us to search the engine compartment.
We made the ferry and drove through to belgium and finally to the netherlands to spend a night at Ralph's family house. We see it as the last house of civilization. The next morning we tried to fit the red suzi with some spring supporters (bits of rubber) but totally failed to get one of the back wheels off. We tried hammers , bigger hammers, jacks, loose bolts and handbrake turns- that wheel will not come off. It is rusted on so we have to take it to a garage tomorrow. We need the wheel free for later!
We drove on to germany, did our first bit of off-roading and set up in a hostel. We ate left over sandwiches, boiled eggs and noodles and drank some beer in the outside covered area while it banged it down with rain.
