Elefantentreffen 2009 (long)

Finding out there are two Hoeks, that they're 100 miles apart and
you're at the wrong one is fun. I think Platy gave it his full on "you
stupid ****" and just hit it. We made the ferry (obviously) but not by
a lot.

 

As I said in the mailing list getting to Rotterdam is only half the story.
For safety I had the city as the satnav target. Getting round Rott and down
the B roads to the Hoek is a fecking long way!

I ran out of gas on the Rott ring road, thrashing it must have dropped it to
40ish mpg and reserve was no more than 20 miles. It was being held on full
throttle 4th gear.

Of course it stalled while I was hooking out the Reserve Tank and the hassle
of getting going again was the last straw in missing the ferry.

Did you know HvH is a little seaside resort for Dutch folk in the summer?
has a fine beach apparently.

 

Holding it "just so" the pain wasn't so bad and the Gaytona touring boots
both compressed and supported it. Steve had given me a strip of Ibuprofen.
As I progressed and it got chilled by the silly weather it got a tad
easier. Stopping and moving around was the real problem and the ferry stairs
were a ****. Getting my gear together and out of the campsite was tough but
all thanks to Platy who assisted.

Now that the boot is off and the plaster on it's worse, having more room to
swell up. And of course the extra damage all that use has done. Crutches
are a bitch, stairs on my bum rather humiliating. The Consultant gave me a
right old wigging. As she is a (most surprisingly for a Consultant) gorgeous
30something I nearly begged her to tie my hands to the bed while she was at
it ;o)

I was pointed to Adapted Car Hire by a friendly Paramedic and have a left
foot throttle automatic car for the duration. Thank ****.

 

Me either.

 

No sense, no feeling. He's a porridge wog. If he'd anything resembling a
central nervous system, he wouldn't have slipped on Bonwick's frozen piss in
the first place.

 

Holy Mother of God.

 

And yet, the myth persists the Germans have no sense of humour.
Crazy, huh?

On part three, near the end, the trike with antlers and other bits of
....stuff hanging off it - I'm sure I've seen that in the flesh, as it
were, this side of the Channel, years ago. Unless there's more than
one... <shudder>.

 

apparently that can happen if you take too many of the pills at once.

 

I always feel like that when travelling norf.

 

Well yes ISWYM but I'm kinda born to it.