Snowball fights on the way to Stelvio

Getting back to basics

Continuing my John Major theme, I thought the chaps would be delighted with my find of £16.60 pppn for a "superior double room" in the Apartment Village Solaria in Davos, Switzerland. The accomodation is warm, dry and tidy. I admit the concrete floors and lack of bedding are not quite the luxury to which the chaps have become accustomed but I wasn't prepared for such an onslaught from the whinging divas. Someone else can book the hotel for Sunday night! ;-)

We made it here for around 21:15 this evening and then went for a nice meal at the Scala (Italian!) restaurant. I'm sure there's some spectacular scenery around us but the darkness of the night is keeping her secrets very well - we can't see a thing.

Planning to be off at 08:30 tomorrow to head another mile upwards to the Stelvio pass and its infamous hairpins. Then down to Trento for lunch and then on to meet the rest of the party goers. Dany, I will call you tomorrow with an ETA when we know what it is.

Snapped by Checkpoint Charlie

We made it through Germany without any problems, but the Austrian border control fined Phil for speeding (approaching the checkpoint) :-}

Quite amusing really that one minute you can be travelling @ 180kph, and then get snapped for doing 69!

So we're into Switzerland now, heading for Davos and looking for somewhere to have dinner.

Speeding South

After a little bit of Autobahn we managed to get to Clint at 15:20 CET. Against the odds we've got all the bags in the car and we're now trying to get some kilometers under the wheels.

Frankfurt to Switerland is going to be a bit of a trek. Making use of the toll roads should reduce the travel time to Davos to around 5 hours. We going to travel as far as we can before we hit real traffic and then stop to get something to eat. Hopefully we'll be in Bavaria by then.

Arrived in Frankfurt...but no Chariot

Just arrived, but the lads are 1h 20 away apparently. Standing waiting for my bags now, so still plenty of time to find a Starbucks and relax with a coffee. Phil's found the speed limitless road so they're flying towards the Airport @170km/h :-)

With any luck the Chariot will survive the Autobahn!

Lunch in Maastricht

The drive this morning went well but for a little congestion near Brussels, though nothing like we might expect back in Blighty. We've left the car under a town square in what must be the cleanest carpark in the whole of a very big place indeed.

Russ enjoyed reliving his youth listening to the very popiest of Europop on the radio with the Venga Boys and whoever sang "Love and devotion". But the poor thing over did it a bit and had to take a short snooze to recover. ;-)

Once we're done here it's just 2.5 hours over to Frankfurt to collect Clint and complete the fellowship.

Misty Belgium

As it's very misty this morning in Bruges, the majority of us (we haven't floated this with Russ yet) have decided to make our way tout de suite inland to Maastricht in Holland to find some brunch and even some "treats" that John Major may have left for us.