Calais to Nantes

So off to Nantes it is, hungover but up and getting ready in the car park. All the cars are there and their are some really good ones and everyone is optimistic. We receive our challenge for the day which is to obtain a maximum snooker break with colours of cars in order on your camera. Allan is driving the first leg so I wrote the last blog and started snapping cars as I could when on the move. The drive is going well and we are seeing other cars but everyone is behaving and we are just moving along nicely.
Sat nav isn't charged and won't for some reason so this causes some concern but the roads seem well signed and we will not do to much that should hinder us today so I think. Going through a toll we spot another jeep cherokee with its bonnet up so we stop to offer help (not really thinking that we know sod all about cars) but they were just needing to cool the engine a little. Asked them their plans for lunch and they were heading into the next big town Caen, we said we were going to find a village on the beach before that and they said they would join us.
So our first convoy, 2 car all be it, Kim and Simon joined us for a quick lunch, well 2 bottles of wine and a nice starter maincourse sit down to be truthful. This was also driver change time so I got a glass, great! Off we set, next stop Nantes and started to belt down the road, Alan now in charge of navigation and photos, the navigation was going well but the wine had had an effect on his aim with the camera.
But a relatively straight forward drive down to Nantes and to be honest quite a quiet one with the challenge completed and a score of 155 on the camera (went for the free ball maximum break) we drove past the hotel to see others out greeting and cheering arrivals. We submitted our entry but were given a 147 break like the others and were entered into a tie-break question and alas we were a close 10 miles off guessing the organisers tripometer on his banger.
So up to the room and down to the bar, then out to find a pub in the city. We soon met in with 2 teams on the street and headed off to the nearest pub. There were about 5 or 6 other teams there and all said that it had been a nice but quite quiet drive down and they were wondering when the fun would start. Unfortunately as we went back to the hotel we found that the fun had started for some of the locals who had smashed in lightening Mcqueens window, spiked the radiator of the Thunderbirds Sherpa and were on top of my cow when Rich from the Army car disturbed them, so I got away lucky. Anyway we helped tidy up the cars a little and headed off to bed as another long day ahead tommorrow. Oh by the way, lovely countryside?.?