Sunday, July 23, 2006

Alriiiight!

We got to Prague at about 3pm today, having made several detours through the German countryside and into the mountains. Once a lovely couple who ran a local pub had sent us in the right direction we managed to find the main road to the Czech Republic. When we got there we were surprised to find that we were the first ones to arrive. We think some teams must have bypassed the stop-off in favour of getting a head start on the rest. It won't do them any good though, the Pandas and Minis are the fast cars out there!

Sad to hear that some teams have already suffered in England, we saw the hearse on the A20 on our way to Dover. Would have stopped but we would have been no use to them. omically, on the way from Nurnberg to Prague our electrics went a little crazy and we had no fuel guage, engine temp, indicators, horn or stereo. Less comically Molly has started to emit a high pitched rattle from underneath our feet whenever we accelerate.

Loads of teams are parked up in the underground car park in the centre of Prague so we're all going to have a few drinks and sort out who is doing which routes. Thankfully, some chap caled Rich thinks that he has daignosed both our problems as non-fatal (dodgy earth connection and something to do with the exhaust manifold). Probably fix them tomorrow.

Tom drove us through the centre of Prague earlier and I navigated. It was a disaster. Not quite as bad as our attempts to get out of London, but still pretty funny. We think we've driven down every street in the city leaving a cloud of fumes and the resonance of our squeaky brakes behind us as we went.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well done guys!!!

Tha Panda has gone off like a hare but, just remember,the tortoise won the race in the end............

Hope you manage to get the car sorted before the next leg. After such a great start you've gotta go all the way!

Drive safely
D&H

p.s.If the goulash is too meaty, Tim, dandelion leaves proliferate in the hedgerows at this time of the year.

Tim and Tom said...

We met a couple of teams last night who arrived a few hours before us, so the claim that we werefirst to prague was invalid. The noise coming from the car has now been re-diagnosed as the engine "pinking". Going to try and do our first bit of car mecahnics now by adjusting the angle of the distributor cap.