I only told you to blow the Bl**dy doors off.....

Well since my last post we are now back in Blighty. After leaving the girls in Madrid to catch there flight home, Pete and I set off on our long journey home (Tom Tom says Noooooooooooooo).

Actually Tom Tom said approx 15Hrs to Calais! This of course turned into a challenge to beat Tom Tom, and of course we tried; leaving Madrid at about 13:30 Hrs and arriving in Calais at 05:30 Hrs the following morning!

We thought sixteen hours was pretty good considering stops for fuel etc.

Tuesday - Homeward bound

After spending the day in Madrid we parted company with the Girls who flew back to Luton; while the we (Dave & Pete) drove back to Calais bringing Quenton the Quattro Home...!!!

Quattro's Rule..... :-)

Roll on Scally Rally 2007......

Winners Scally Rally 2006

WINNERS 2006

The spoils....

Monday - Barcelona to Madrid

All motorway, the shortest and fastest part of our entire journey but still entertaining!

This allowed us plenty of time to party!

Bring on the Beer...!!!

Sunday - Menton to Barcelona

Half motorway and half mountain roads, we decided to test the car and take the hard route through Andora.

It was well worth it! Driving towards Barcelona out of the mountains was quite something as the Sun was setting. It has made the entire trip worth while:-) Arrived 21:30 Hrs at the Hotel thanks to Tom Tom and Anna Anna!

Saturday - Geneva to Menton (Monaco)

What can I say, fantastic but there was only one problem the girls were not looking forward to the days drive.

This was mainly due to the route being straight through the middle of the alps! Needless to say there were a few moments where they were hiding behind their travel pillows! (Many Photos to upload) Arrived in Menton and had issues with the hotel, but had a fantastic meal and walked along the sea front. We arrived at 20:30 Hrs, some who had taken the more testing route did not make it into Menton until the early hours of the morning!

Scally Motors leaveing the Hotel in Geneva...


Team 59 - 'Bad Boys' Leaving the Hotel in style, as usual...

Friday - Calais to Geneva

We started in the City Europe car park in Calais at 09:00 Hrs, with the other 74 teams all raring to go. All of the cars looked great, in fact ours was looking too good compared to some....!! We put this down to the fact that Pete and I are anal about cleaning our cars and had spent the best part of a day cleaning it:-)


We set off after the air horn was blown and everyone was trying to get to the exit first to collect their days rally pack, which had all of the challenge details enclosed.

The days run was mostly motorways until we reached Switzeland, when it got really interesting!
We drove through the mountains on very windy roads in the dark through cloud cover, thank´s to the additional spotlights we arrived safely!

Thursday Night - Registration 'City Europe'

We arrived in City Europe and the first thing on the agenda was to register our team, this was obviously important as we could no take part unless the organisers had seen a valid V5, MOT Certificate and valid insurance certificate. This ensured that everyone was legit for the rally!

Sue doing the Registration of teams

After registration we sunk a few pints and then sent about finding our Hotel (ibis - just next to City Europe)

To Dover and beyond....

We had a good start to our journey and everything was going fine, until.....






We had to stop on the M25 for a short break, as the car had overheated whilst sat in traffic for two hours!

The Ferry Journey.....

Well we finally made it to the Ferry terminal at Dover and as luck would have it went straight onto the next ferry..!!

And were off..........

Well we are nearly all packed and Rob (Sobell House Fundraiser) has just arrived with the stickers for the car, which look great.

Have a break have a kit kat..!!

After spending all day working on the car "last minite.com" as usual, we are now flaked out on the living room floor posting an update after all our hard work!

Still the Scally Motor is looking prety good now and we are feeling chuffed with our handy work!

She has now been fully serviced by pistol Pete, including the obligatory oil & filter change, new plug leads, new rotor arm and of course some new wiper blades.

There is no stopping us now.....:-)

Well actually we did not stop there! The Audi has also been upgraded with Rally Giant driving lamps and Lucas fog lights, that look great..!! She really does look like a Rally Quattro now..!!

But if course we could not stop there, so we have also added some vinyl stickers just take a look at the photos.....

If you see this coming - MOVE OVER - please.............:-)