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Countdown Plymouth-Dakar 2005 / Europe Date:  16.Dec.2004   Location:  MS Bretange   Mileage:  50km    On the freey back to France. Had a wonderfull evening with the boys in Cornwall. Good pp-style party. Bit of a headache in the morning, as usual. Met the first few other pds'ers, two teams at the party, one on the ferry. Tomorrow the PDC really starts for us - 2100km in 3 days. Next target is Sotogrande in Andalusia, southern Spain. At least the weather is better down there. 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 ... Kudi (SMS)   On the Ferry    plymouth  PDC Day One Plymouth-Dakar 2005 / Europe Date:  17.Dec.2004   Location:  Bayenne   Mileage:  850km    Swimming through France : actually we were lucky as escaped the storn in France by hours. On the road it wasn't fun. Kudi gave up riding after 500km of constant rain. The temperature was OK but it didn't stop raining for a second. Otherwise we did the first repairs (frozen carbs), forgot credit cards and disapointed lorry drivers. Near the Spanish border now. Travelled all day with PDC team 5107 and met more teams in the hotel. Run through Spain tomorrow... Küdi (SMS)   it never rains in france  PDC Day Two Plymouth-Dakar 2005 / Europe Date:  18.Dec.2004   Location:  Siera Nevada   Mileage:  1700km    Into the sunshine - man that was tough! 16 hours on the roads, 400km through rain before we met the sun near Madrid. Now travelling in a row of 4 teams, a Landi (Land Rover), a Golf, a Peugeot and us two, Golf broke down twice due to a dead alternator, the Peugeot once because of a dead ignition module. These were the first serious repairs, good luck that Regy (in the Landi) is a professional mechanic! At least I could help using my multimeter and soldering iron :) My GPS died this morning while push-starting the DT.... Think SERIOUSLY, we will se tomorrow. Mercedes and the DT are running well, no serious problems so far! Tomorrow we should reach Sotogrande in Andalusia; should be easy compared to today, only 300km to go. Andy was straight to bed tonight but I found beer at 1:30am ... I love the Sierra Nevada! Kudi (SMS)   First Repairs    Ignition Module    Sun again    Sierra Nevada    Sunset    Anybody got a spare battery?  PDC Meeting Plymouth-Dakar 2005 / Europe Date:  20.Dec.2004   Location:  Sotogrande   Mileage:  3500km    Weather:  Sunny    Temperature:  20C    Day 4 on the road was easy, only aprox 400km. No more (unexpected) break downs. Reached Sotogrande near gibraltar in the afternoon. Mileage approx. 3500km. Weater sunny and 20C. Some shoping today, now waiting for the first team meeting to begin. Must be hundreds pdcers here, the whole hotel seems to be occupied. Africa tomorrow. Ferry to Ceuta and border crosing to Morocco. Just hope customs will be easy. Nothing new for us but might be different with the van and all the gear. Next message will be from africa...! Kudi (SMS)   Gibraltar    coffee    more sierra nevada    mediteran sea    hmmmm???    sun    meeting    more meeting    team lost baja

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