Nantes to Toulouse

Toulouse it is next and after being handed the challenge Alan and I agreed not to bother today as we were planning other things. 4 guys called 4kof in an Escort Cabriolet asked to convoy with us which we had no problem with, well no problem other than we didn't know how to get out of the town. So we headed off and after about 4 u-turns and some fraid tempers between driver and navigator we made the motor way and on the road we went. Seeing lots of other team cars this time as well at the start and feeling disappointed we had no armory and it seemed neither did anyone else. Ok, sign post for Cognac, that is it a Cognac in Cognac and time to get armed. So the cow and 4kof went into a supermarket, necked a cognac each and started to buy up some eggs and tomatoes etc with the agreement of the other team that we would not pelt each other.
As we headed down the road we were a little concerned as to the heat of our engine so decided to lift the bonnet and let it cool for 10mins, chatting with the other team we decided to get going and one of them kindly dropped our bonnet for us. 10miles down the road we were hotter than before and couldn't understand why but had better stop, really concerned we lifted the bonnet to find what can only be described as a cheese omelette cooked onto our engine the B******s, ok that was it game on! But Alan and I were laughing about it for a while down the road.
Now the driving entailed one of us hanging out the car flicking eggs at the other car as the driver tried to dodge their best efforts and if u got a good egg on the windscreen of their open top car it all swamped in and when the wipers went on it brought the rest in, we were also a bit faster uphill so could avoid them getting in front to much, but they got their fair share of hits on our car. In the passing we also took out The army car and Starsky and Hutch on the way, we were making a name for ourselves and having a laugh. Arriving into Toulouse we found a hotel only to discover it was the wrong one, still in convoy now of 4 we needed a little space behind us so Allan reversed into the Escort guys by accident obviously, which in turn made them slam into our considerably larger and more powerful Jeep. Allan then slipped reverse (again by mistake I am sure)moving them, Starsky and Hutch and also the Honda, good effort.
After dropping our stuff off and having a shower their was only one thing left to do before going for a drink, ammo. I went to spar of all places and purchased a load of eggs, yogurts, tomatoes, chocolate puddings, frozen fish fillets and a Black Forrest Gateaux. I took them to the cow to sit over night getting suitably warm and then took the fish fillets and managed to slide them between the lining and the cover of the Escorts soft top, also pouring some fish oil over the roof. Couple of 5.30am alarm calls made for their rooms and my work was done for the day.
We met at a pub called the melting pot and started chatting with most of the teams, some we had met and others this was our first meeting them, Allan had an adverse effect to a Yegermeister or something sounding like that and I am hoping to get copies of the pictures but apart from that it was a quiet night, well drinking and chatting plenty but no trickery, it seems the rules of that are to be only when with your banger. So after Allan had serenaded the bar with some buskers accordion we headed off for some rest before the final leg of our journey.