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Apart from the weather (which actually generated some memorable moments in itself!), I think it can go down in the archives as another great trip with lots of laughs as always. Thanks to Julia & Simon for securing our pitch – we would have been well and truly screwed without their help. Timmy back on form and back on the bottle was also great to see. Hope Nathan wasn’t too traumatised. Kev’s ‘Trains, Planes & Automobiles’ trip down shows once this race gets in your blood, you’ll do anything to get there! Dave’s Trans-Atlantic haul is testimony to that.
 
A couple of highlights and funny bits for me (that I can remember):
 
- Wednesday madness at Belle Hill. Nice to see us taking it so steady before the real party started in France!
- Meeting Dave at Beaumont Sur Sarthe. A totally different village and bar to what we thought! Dave on top form.
- The first can of Guinness opened at Camping Bleu
- The first bottle of Champagne fired off
- Harper Garlic Prawns
- Pig Brains
- Pedo Mat
- Gazebo maintenance and structural engineering against all odds
- Hazleggs and supporting crew F.E.B’s
- 3pm Saturday
- Watching the cars on Saturday night from the campsite.
- Tartiflette
- Gabe and Emma getting slowly rat ars*d on Sunday
- Sunday night ‘disco’ and water catapults
- Watching the Gypsies clearing up the site
- Hearing the Volvo engine finally start on Monday
- Getting home!
 
Not so good bits (excluding the weather):
 
- Bloody French Petrol Stations (how slow were those fill-up stops?!!)
- The worrying moment when somebody said they had apparently been stopping people going past the ticket scanners who had glass bottles. 15+ bottles of Champagne needing to be drunk at the entrance gate?!! Let’s hope that little rule doesn’t start to get enforced….
- Mad Friday getting a tad ‘mad’. Thankfully Jez still has two eyes!
- The exit queue on Sunday for Graham and Dave
- The Volvo not starting Monday due to Sunday’s disco extravaganza