Day 4 questions

Thanks for the assistance yesterday, we are getting into the swing of this bloggin malarkey, now we can post pictures it makes life a little easier.

Let's see if we can get these today :)

Thank you.

Day 3 questions

You may have seen we are now able to publish pictures via a different blogging app. So here are all of today's questions.

Thanks

Day 3 is well underway

Started out striking camp and getting on the road for 8am to get to the edge of Lake Geneva, we had a stop at sens to have a look around the fantastic cathedral 

and then on to Dijon with the guide dog for lunch...

Now we are heading down the A39 for Geneva.

Made it..

Day2, a long drive and didn't get to Paris.

Pizzas are good though. 

We dud get to Le Mans and drive along the public road section for a bit, at about 40mph.  

An accident an route (not us) delayed us sufficiently to miss our challenges in Paris, we arrived at the campsite in time to get the tent up in the dry and in the light. 

Pizza'd and beering up. 

Long day. Lovely bits of rural France, lots of motorway and infernal tolls.  

 

Marathon day 2 640km done

Well that was a monster day to start the rally, 640+km from Roscoff to the east side of Paris.

Tents up and food for the evening has been ordered. 9 hours on the road was a chore today with another tough day of similar distance tomorrow with passports required the destination has been set as Geneva...

Maureen is struggling on the inclines and has a rattle from behind the steering wheel (it's not effecting the ability to steer and it comes and goes so b'reet).

It will be interesting tomorrow and we've been told it's an easier time when we get to Italy, so an early start in the morning and another long day but with the view it gets easier if we can make it through tomorrow.

There has already been a couple of cars that have packed up, so let's see if we can make it to the end.

Fingers crossed.....

Day 2 questions

A bit late today on this but never mind only 2 questions we didn't get.

Which language has declined from more than a million speakers in the 1950's, to about 200,000 in the first decade of the 21st century?

What type of structure lies directly behind Camping Iris Parc Le Chene Gris?

If the boats a rockin.....

It's a choppy night on the channel crossing!

It started with a departure from Plymouth on-time at 10pm which was good.

After meeting in the main bar (obligatory pint or 4) we handed in our quiz sheet answers for day 1 to Mark (our toga wearing team controller) picked up our questions for day 2 mingled a little by greeting everyone who wandered past with an "ey-up".....

Then retired to a very dark cabin complete with bunk beds in rolling seas for a pitchy and rolly night waiting for Mike to fall out which he managed not to do thankfully.

Anyway it's early morning and unless the captain was pointing in the wrong direction we should be close to Roscoff to start towards our destination for day 2 of Paris.

So another 400 mile day today with questions which will be in a separate post.

Wish us luck...

Day 1 questions

So we have day 1's questions. Some of which only we would be able to find out. However there are some we could do with help with.

Answers in the comments please :)

Mevagissey was used as a film set in 2015 for which British film?

What is the altitude drop of Goliath falls (meters)?

Who granted Callington a market charter in 1267?

Which royal is the railway bridge across the Tamar named after?

Oh bloody hell!

We're off

Pompei or bust

One day to go!

Yesterday, Maureen was topped up with diesel, had new wiper blades fitted and the last few accessories, breathalyzers, red triangles etc. chucked into the boot. We're as ready as we can be, 3/4 of a nights sleep remaining.

A Whatsaspp group has been set up by the rally organisers for our team, cars 60 to 80 and we've started chatting to our fellow ralliers. It's getting rather exciting.

We set off at about 5am tomorrow morning, 28th Sept and we have a 300+ mile journey to St Austell where we will be registered and inspected.

The suspension leak hasn't got worse.

We can now see out of the windscreen when it rains.

Our Guide Dogs mascot is sitting on the parcel shelf looking out on a receding world.

Our bale of straw is in one piece on the back seat.

What can possibly go wrong?

#PompeiOrBust

Guide dogs came in to town....

They truly are a talented bunch of dogs the guide dogs, they came in to work to see us before we set off in just over a week (scary)....

The whole office really enjoyed the visit yesterday getting to talk to the fantastic team that support the charity, with dogs in all stages from the 10 month old pup to the 11 year old retiree.

Guess the weight of the cake

So with some fundraising done the next piece is a cake donated to us to do a guess the weight with.

This is a fantastic traditional Christmas cake that goes well with a cheese of choice.

I'll update this when the lucky winner is drawn with the total raised for this.

Fund Raising - Whippets fer t'blind

Phil and I aren't only doing the is for fun, oh no..

We are raising money for the fabulous Guide Dogs charity.

If you'd like to chip in you can donate at the following link - thanks.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/brc2019

A starting point....

So i'll start by saying.... a blog, what the bejesus do you write!!!

The view was to start to blog about our banger rally challenge to keep people who may or may not be interested in following where we are at the end of September, to keep a track on the things we get up to and to help to raise a few quid for the guide dogs if we can...

So myself and my work colleague Mike who is a very interesting guy (he used to work with the BBC as a sound engineer among other stuff) decided we wanted to try and compete in the rally this year and signed up in April with the team name "God's own c'ntry".

So what is the rally all about and why did we choose to do it?

The banger rally challenge is getting a relatively unsuitable car from Cornwall to a destination somewhere in a week. This year the organizers have chosen the sunny Italian destination of Pompei in the aptly named "Pompei or bust" www.bangerrallychallenge.co.uk

The cars value when purchased is to be less than £500 and have a valid MOT, thats about it for car rules...

So we found a few weeks ago now a Citroen C5 on autotrader from a private seller in Bradford. It looked clean and didn't squeak too much (yet) so we put up £440 and bought the blue chariot which Mike has named "Maureen".....

So as a boring blue armchair we didn't feel it had quite enough character to complete in the rally and so we set about with some Halfords paint rattle cans and a desire to produce a work of art Joseph would have been proud to wear...

The whole thing wouldn't have been complete without a huge Yorkshire rose (and a plethora of other stickers) complete with flat caps this is due to be our entry into this years challenge.