Team Short Way Down: FINALLY I HAVE WIRELESS

THE CRUZ BUS

5.6.08 19.30

Well we.re on the road all planning is planned, all checks are checked and if we've forgotten anything its tuff shit now! the van to shoulder ratio isnt as bad as id have thought so thats good, we've just passed swindon so as you can imagine not much has happened, so far we've only had to emergency air the van once (phil dealt it we all smelt it!), oooo we just passed two tanks too! riveted as im sure you are ill wait till something good happens b4 i carry on, i only wrote this cause im bored in a van!!

well we got on to the ferry fine, Almost got searched which would have been a pain in the ass but when she saw how much crap we were taking she gave up, the ferry is a pretty standard number, not much going on and despite my best efforts niether of the boys were into playing cards at the tables, good job really else id probably have lost a mint (craig you'd have been all over it), its about 2am and as i type im sat in my sleeping bag in the high class seating area, shhh snuck in what can they do! so im off to sleep now!

6.6.08

Got off the ferry and hit the road

One relentless (juiced) + one super peruvian coffee (Ant brought a kilo, nice one!) avec duo sucre + one jambon et fromage baguette + one almond cake thingy = brekkie, tidy!!

already met a guy from pembs in a petrol station just outside LA Harve, hes surfed up aber a few times, no escape eh, on our way to Shaun and lucy's boar farm now via Le mans, they kindly are letting us stay in their cottage for the night, and they have tinterweb im told so all this will hopefully be posted tonight all being well, maybe even with a few pics!
p.s girls are right, boys smell!!

well after dicking around trying to find the place for a while we found a nice lady who drew us a map to of how to get to Sean and Lucy's place, good job too as Phils memory didn't "all come flooding back" as he'd expected, much to our amusement and complete supprise!!

The place is nearly as stunning as the hospitality, really nice people! the farm is beautiful, we got to help out with the pig feeding (loved it), the 3/4 week old piglets were too sweet for words (perfect baguette size as Ant noted), they have loads of pigs (gloustershire old spot, landrace and saddle back (guys correct me if that isnt right) sheep, an old thoroughbred stalion who was born in Poland, raced in Italy and retired in France! he's a super cool dude! 5 mares, 2 goats, 2 chickens, a litter of kittens (that phil discovered whilst having a pee country style), two dogs (super sweet) finley and rex(??),
Those who know me will know i bloody loved all of em. heres a few.

In between looking after all of them Sean and Lucy have been busy making a small tribe of very cool little people, Patrick, Rosie, Gretta and the newest edition Shannon whos one!, we got to meet Lucy's ma and da, Wendy and Edward, had an amazing dinner of lemon chicken with ginger and garlic, wild rice, cheese and bread all finished off with strawberry and mango pavlova with creme fresh (cheers ladies it was a beaut) drank lots of very nice wine! and put the world to rights till the wee hours of the morning, after a good (all be it too breif) nights kip, after brekkie of super snags and bread and a wonder round the animals we were ready to hit the road, but not before we were loaded up with enough pork products to fuel a small army (cant thank you enough guys, a big cheers from Team Short Way Down)

(balls i forgot to aks if i could upload this on their web, will hunt for wireless today)
sat in the van now writing this on the way to la massana, ANDORRA WOOOHOOO!
got to find cheep veg oil first for the cruz bus to drink on the way (shes running a treat by the way no hiccups so far at 660 miles since leaving aber) so we are on the hunt for a carrefore.

THE CARREFOUR DIARIES

Who would have thought the hunt for a carrefour would be so entertaining! we decided to use our dedicated shat nav (that we call garmon) to take us to carrefour, after logging on and finding the address on google maps (its bound to be the top one eh, its a boody big store) we traipse across Lemoinge in the cruz bus and round all the tiny back streets blindly following every little instruction garmon shouted at us, yay we found carrefour! great! only it wasn't great cause what it found was a tiny little bar in the city center called le carrefoure! bugger!!!!

Not quite the hypermarche we were looking for!!!

luckily after a more thorough check we found the real one less than 3 miles away!
only it wast lucky because we discovered that in France bloody veg oil is more expensive than diesel, great! so with about two hours or more wasted on this mini adventure we decide to head off, on a plus note though Phil and Ant took up the supermarche travelator challenge and became gladiators for the briefest of moments running the wrong way up an escalator without steps, result!! worth it in the end.
Next mission was find some toilets, we manage to find some on the A20, off Ant trots to have a piss finds the trough and gets involved, "aaahhhhh" its not till he see'e the lady walk past and do a double take that he thinks to himself "mmm maybe this isnt the urinal and notices the flush buttons are infact taps" oh dear he just pissed in the uni sex SINK!!!!!! with a very disgusted french women and a very very amused Team short Way Down we hit the road, still giggling as we drive, absolute classic!!!! (in his defense it was a long trough)

900.4 MILES FROM MORRISONS

The snow capped Pyrenees loomed into view, oh shit!!!! we might get broken, the chatter in the van even stopped for a while, I think its pretty real now, they are massive, im not sure how big the ones we are looking at are but its supprising how much snow there is on the ones in the distance, metallica orion full blast and can of relentless on the go, the old heat rate is up just a tad.
(dont worry mum, im just bigging it up honest!!!!!)