2005

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The 2005 weblog (now in chronological order): Jem in Portishead 25 August 2005 22:30 Right, another year, another rally... Here we go again   Jem in The test centre at 16:33 on Wednesday the 31st of August 2005 MoT time...   Jem in Bristol at 17:32 on Wednesday the 31st of August 2005 Failed... Pants   Jem in Bristol at 16:10 on Monday the 12th of September 2005 PugnaciousE now has MoT! Now all we need is some time to decorate it...   Jem in Jon's house at 20:07 on Saturday the 17th of September 2005 8 hours of decorating and stuff today. PugnaciousE is now close to being ready. We seem to have mucked up the electrics :s   Jem in Portishead at 23:44 on Wednesday the 21st of September 2005 Now where's that map?   Jon in Home at 00:49 on Thursday the 22nd of September 2005 Guess who left all the hotel printouts in the office.   Jon in Home at 00:52 on Thursday the 22nd of September 2005 Oops! Found them in the map. Do we win a prize for being most disorganised?   Jem in The ferry at 17:56 on Thursday the 22nd of September 2005 So far, so good...   Jem in Citi Europe at 07:31 on Friday the 23rd of September 2005 So many rubbish cars, new photo added!   Jem in Calais at 08:29 on Friday the 23rd of September 2005 And we're off! No route plan, and Jon refusing to stop!   Jem in St Omer at 08:40 on Friday the 23rd of September 2005 Heading for Reims, following a Volvo 440 with Viper stripes.   Jem in A26 at 09:33 on Friday the 23rd of September 2005 Traffic jam of rubbish cars at petrol station already, including us.   Jem in A26 at 10:51 on Friday the 23rd of September 2005 Today's challenge is s2n snooker. Taking photos of coloured cars on motorways. Not seen a red to even start yet!   Jem in Reims at 11:17 on Friday the 23rd of September 2005 Lunch break. 169 miles done, managed some car photos now!   Jem in Metz at 12:26 on Friday the 23rd of September 2005 Heading for Nancy now. Not many other s2n cars about tho. 229 miles gone!   Jem in Nancy at 13:56 on Friday the 23rd of September 2005 Now heading for Colmar. 311 miles complete, £60 in petrol so far... Crikey!   Jem in Somewhere in Switzerland at 17:36 on Friday the 23rd of September 2005 Nearly at the 1st evening stop, just another 50 miles to go. Finally seen some other s2n cars, mainly the German team.   Jem in Sarnen at 18:14 on Friday the 23rd of September 2005 Heading for the hotel for the night.   Jem in Sarnen at 08:36 on Saturday the 24th of September 2005 Just had a group photo, there are a lot of people here!   Jem in Swiss mountain pass at 09:53 on Saturday the 24th of September 2005 Found team Piston Broke with their bonnet up...   Jem in Grimselpass at 10:16 on Saturday the 24th of September 2005 Piston Broke have an over heating problem. Rob is attempting to jam the fans on.   Jem in Furkapass at 11:14 on Saturday the 24th of September 2005 Quick photo opp, two passes down, 4 to go. Joby driving. Fear.   Jem in Bottom of Furkapass at 11:41 on Saturday the 24th of September 2005 Lots of cars with no breaks, including Piston Broke and a Merc.   Jem in Andermatt at 12:01 on Saturday the 24th of September 2005 Quick lunch break, phone battery running low.   Jem in Brescia at 11:57 on Sunday the 25th of September 2005 Italian mobile network intermittent at best. Blog continuing by picture comments, if possible.   Jem in Brescia at 12:00 on Sunday the 25th of September 2005 Challenge for the day is photo of all team by pump no 3 at 5 Esso stations, while being dressed as Clint Eastwood. Our costumes are pretty makeshift!   Jem in Viterbo at 09:24 on Monday the 26th of September 2005 Final day challenge: The Layin Code. We've been given a map and 5 village names. We then have to answer questions about the villages for points.   Jem in Viterbo at 09:29 on Monday the 26th of September 2005 We did appaulingly at the Clint challenge, 4 points scored! Friday's snooker went quite well, but i think we're still only average!   Jem in Bristol at 21:16 on Friday the 7th of October 2005 Oh yeah. We made it back OK, for those that didn't follow the photos! We don't know quite how badly we've done yet though!

Click here for the 2005 flash movie thingy Click here for the 2004 web log Right, it's 2005 and we've signed up again! Same old usual suspects and with the addition of and Joby, but I haven't had time to draw a picture This year's car is a 1993 Vauxhall Carlton Estate, costing £100 from my wife-to-be's mum's friend. It'll look cracking with the Pugnacious family stripes Click here for Jon's photos of the 2005 car, PugnaciousE Click here for a link to other live team photos throughout the event - CAUTION: External content cannot be guaranteed for suitablility... The Official S2N site Links to other s2n teams Team Piston Broke Team Gadget & Sons Team Bobbins Team BigSmellyBum Team Dem Senna seine Leichtenteile (Probably best not ask for a translation) Err, the Maestro Owners Club team The S6 Boys Team Hass M-Sport UK Badgers Nadgers AutoMark