29.06.2007

Anna and I finally took off =)
We took a little bit later off, as I expected - actually around
9 pm

At the end everything was really stressful, because my checklist didn’t find an end
There was each time still anything to do …
But finally I did the last things, which I had to do - I fill up the fresh water tanks and installed my mountain bike on the back of the camper van :)

My journey got a bit more exciting as I diagnosed one day in front of departure that half of my technical equipment (Notebook, Pocket PC, GPS and a few other things) crashed, so that they didn’t want to work anymore together …
I first expected to have free internet in the UK - but the USB socket stopped working … - how ever - I known, that I will find a way to fix all these problems ;P

I quick installed my web cam in front of the van (I’m happy, that this technical stuff still worked :), because I planned to take each half minute a picture, so that I can cut it later together to a short movie - I will place it on this blog, as soon as I finished the cutting :)

And finally Anna and I took off and drive through the night ...
I had (only :P ) 1896,3 km (1178.3 miles) of route in front of me =)

At the moment we are pretty close to Frankfurt am Main, where we decided to make a longer stop and sleep a little bit … - we are bought really tired - only a lot of Coca-Cola and Red Bull helped us, to stay awake …

We actually had a small accident after 387 km (240.5 miles), but that didn’t take us much time …

A small red coloured Mercedes delivery van (from Germany with the number WU HH140) passed us at a route works section, where the street got a bit smaller - he went to fast and too much on our side and so on our mirrors crashed …

At that moment Anna drove the van - but it wasn’t her fault - it was the Mercedes drivers fault and he also admitted this immediately, as soon as we both hold on at the side …
Because only our mirror got broken and we all where really tired at that moment, we fast decided, to let him just quickly pay our mirror and then everybody can go on with there tour.
Actually I always bring a reserve mirror for this van with me - and they are not really expensive - so on I can fix it by my one :)
Only the glass of the small wide angle mirror on the left side has got broken, so it was really no problem to bring the situation to an quick end - and so on we went just 5 minutes later on with our big tour =)

Kind Regards
SEBI