Sunday, 9 January 2011

Friday 03 December Trier and snow!

Am up at 04:00 to do some of the pick-ups for the Trier trip before driving to Dartford where I have an important meeting planned for 09:00.
Brian has taken the coach to Alton to pick up some of the passengers from close to their homes while Ray has gone out in his Landrover to also help with the pick-ups.
He also brings some people into Petersfield and leaves his car at my house. He was supposed to go to Warendorf but is now going along with Brian to Trier.
I manage to pick up people in Petersfield which adds to my frustration with the taxi company that wouldn't give it a try.
The Trier trip actually gets away on time and the taxi's from Liss, Liphook and Haslemere are all on time in Liphook.
I manage to reach Dartford in time.
With hindsight it was a good thing we cancelled the Warendorf trip because the driver would have run out of driving hours a long way short of his destination.
The Trier trip was running an hour and 15 minutes earlier than the Warendorf one.
They were held up for over 5 hours during the day, arriving in Trier at 22:00! With Ray and Brian together they remained legal but if Brian had been on his own he would have had to stop driving by 19:00!
Ray going to Warendorf would have been even later.
What a nightmare!

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