Hi everyone, im going to give this a go in my worst english so here goes...
I woke up bright and early on thursday morning with the intention of grabbing a few hours sleep later on in the day. After packing and double checking i had everything it was time for more sleep, but i think the excitment of the trip ahead got to me and it didnt happen
So i loaded the bike early evening and headed to martyns. Greg was all ready there and when Shaun (nobby) arrived we were fed and watered by martyns wife (thanks jackie).
After that we headed to the midnight meeting point on the M20 where Andy (steershead) and Dave (daffyd)and mandy were waiting. Adey arrived so we headed of to dover in the hope of getting an earlier crossing.
As you know what happened at dover with Adey i wont go over it again, all i can say is personally i was gutted for him and we all felt the same.
Anyway we managed to get the 2 AM crossing to dunkirk, so the 6 bikes were loaded on the ferry and we were on our way.
We were all pretty tired by then as none of us had slept but at about 5.30 french time we were rolling of the ferry and on our way to asendorf.
After a 400 mile journey we arrived at Roberts hostel in assendorf to be greeted by the early arrivals. i think it was about 4 or 5 pm by then. we put the tents up and cracked open a beer or two.
Friday evening we invaded a local restraunt that robert had kindly booked for us.
Saturday morning came and with it a choice of ride outs. Robert had said he would take the group on a tour of the local sights. And nick said he would take a few of us to Hamburg where harley days was happening.
Nick ,shaun,greg,andy and myself headed of to hamburg to see the sights.
Saturday evening was prizegiving night. Bedouin won furthest travelled, gooseman won best custom and martyn suprisingly won best rat but decided that greg should be the winner
Peter (hotdog had made plaques for us all which was a nice gesture and robert had a barbeque going.
The beer was flowing well and pawel introduced some vodka and a drink called spirytus to help the party along.
Sunday was chill out day although we did manage a group ride out to mcdonalds for lunch which was quite amusing. Steve and mark headed back to england and later that night thanassis began his long journy back to greece.
We were all up early on monday for the journey home. Johann and Bengt headed back to sweden ,greg of to poland,and the rest of us back to "good old blighty". Despite the heat on the way back we had a good journey and managed it 2 hours quicker and got on an earlier ferry returning in to the uk at about 7.30pm.
Personally speaking it was a fantastic trip and im glad to have met each and every member that was there. Hopefully next year there will be more members taking part.. Roll on next year.
Ive put all the photos i took at this link so enjoy..
Dave
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12897423@N00/sets/72157594203707634/For some reason they are back to front though.
