3 Days and Counting...

Calais - Frankfurt - Prague - Bratislava - Munich - Amsterdam.

Rally Europe is basically a poor man’s Gumball Rally, which is where the more fortunate of us have brought a very big expensive fast car and are now racing it against other similarly rich people with very big expensive fast cars. Rally Europe is basically that, but without the glitz, glamour and excess. Rules are simple. The car can cost no more the £300. That’s about it really. There’ll be a series of challenges along the way and a theme is advised. More about that in a minute. The route is some 1743 miles, winding its way from Calais to Frankfurt, then onto Prague followed by Bratislava with a stop at Munich to finish in Amsterdam.

Now the reason why this is such a big deal for me is down to some of the detail. For starters I have no idea who my team is. All I know is that I’m in an old Ford Mondeo; with a team of people from Wales and that I must wear Baywatch theme clothes. O and that the car has been painted to look like a life boat.

Currently it’s Sunday night, around 9.25 in the evening. I know that in about 3 day’s time I’m (hopefully going to be sat in a lifeboat thundering down the M4 to Dover with a group of people I’ve never met. Strangle I’m not nervous. Yet. But I am going to keep you updated on my preparation for the event, and hopefully during it as well.

So far I’ve book train tickets to Reading station for a rendez-vu at 9pm on Wednesday night, I’ve splashed out on a netbook, for which I’ve left the charge cable for at home, and I’ve brought some Baywatch clothes. So that leaves currency, collecting train tickets, getting the power cable and packing to do. 3 days and counting...