Friday 27 September 2013

Day Two: San Sebastian and a lesson learned.

The next morning a few of the teams set off early - mostly those who had procured their own breakfasts with gas stoves.  Proper hardcore campers.  

The routine would be that two of the six marshalls would go round to all the tents each morning and do a breathalizer test on the first driver of the crew and then hand them the route map for the next site.  If you had planned an early start, you could go to the marshall's tent and collect the route map and be breathalised.  


Help packing up from Tintin and crew.
With the Ark driving like a dream and the sun shining everything seemed to be going rather well.  We set off to have breakfast with Tintin and crew in La Rochelle before the next stint to Spain and San Sebastian.  Whilst glad it was blue skies, I found the heat made wearing a onesie very uncomfortable.
Spot the Screwballers cars!
Why are pirates called pirates?  Because they aaarrrrrrrrr.

We parked on the harbour front and by the time we reached Le Maritime restaurant to have breakfast of coffee, croissants, bread and jam, the Pirates were already on their second coffees and having their photos taken by locals and passers by. 


Taking a break from pillaging.



Tintin, us and the pirates






The pirates left dubloons as a tip.  Classy!



Back at the car we found we'd been 'Grog'd' by the Pirates!

Not wanting another 'Calais' moment, we followed Tintin out of La Rochelle.

La Rochelle harbour

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