Day 1 - London to Hamburg, Germany

AND WE ARE OFF!

Again, it's another late one tonight, we are currently writing this blog at 3.30 in the morning due to some minor difficulties on the road. As per usual with a seemingly faultless plan orchestrated by one of the world’s great organisers and forward thinkers it all went pear-shaped. Mark Jeffreys was at the helm - and in a nutshell that essentially was the problem. There are few worse catchphrases in the world than his “no worries mate”, because you just know that when things implode spectacularly, he is not far away from the cause.  You just knew when he rolled up in a hideously decorated van that “stands out like a dunny on a country hillside” and with the words emblazoned across the back - Assassins Do It From Behind - that this trip had trouble written all over it. When songs like Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire, Guns ’N’ Roses Welcome to the Jungle and and more blared out through France, Belgium, Holland, and to our first port of call, Hamburg, that you knew problems were awaiting.

We rolled up in Hamburg at around 10pm, a few hours later due to delays on the Euro Tunnel and lots and lots of traffic. We arrived at the camp site that Jeffo had organised, only to find that two days earlier it had been transformed into a fairground! There we no tents or campers in sight… just plenty of razzmatazz, bright lights and a few dubious locals eyeing up three desperate Poms, a ruffled Australian and a Finnish Lapphund; who had lost not only his appetite for food, but, also for life. 

Jeffo, akin Scruffy, had done it again but at least he had managed to activate Plan B without too much heartache and fuss. A small room in a 'budget' hotel would do, under these particular circumstances. Two guys in a double, one on the top bunk, and one sharing the floor with a huffing and puffing Osa. This was as good as it got on the opening day of a 14-day extravaganza to Finland. Welcome to the Jungle could be our pin-up song by the end of all this! But despite all of this everyones moral was still good and no fists were thrown. Tomorrow is a new day and hopefully, a smoother progress. Here's to the next few days on the road!

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