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Old 21-09-2007, 19:13   #1
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Well, after a brilliant trip to CZ with some of you lovely lot I have now finally had chance to go through the hoardes of pics and videos I have acquired!!

Emily said we needed an anthem for the trip....and this one kinda became mine so for anyone who was asking me what I was gonna put it to, here you can find out!! lol
Youtube Linky - Courtesy of Neo_VR - but for some reason the first few slides dont change on time - please rememeber it WAS perfect when I made it! lol

My highlights were:
all the trip 'phrases' people accidentally came out with:
<Said by Will to me in McD's in relation to finding a certain Belgian McD's> "If you can get us close I'll finish off"
<Said by me on the nurburgring re cars behind> "I don't like it when people come up my bum"
Another one, which you have to ask me for as it's unpostable

If anyone can remember the others I would be most grateful!!! (I'm sure Milly had one too!)

The group meal, Wills escalator slide, driving peoples cars on airfield/ring (thanks Q, Will, Alan, Adam and Col!), the sightseeing and the way our little group could make a joke out of ANYTHING!

Oh, and thanks Q and Nick for putting up with me singing in the car! haha!! I remember me and Q singing along to this a couple of times!! YouTube - Sean Kingston-Beautiful Girls hahaha!! It will forever remind me of you now Q!!! lol!!

and now, here's my summary for anyone who cares! (in black for ease on the eyes!) If not, then skip straight to the pics!!


Summary of the trip:

After getting kicked out of Dover for being an hour early, we all met up along the front ready to convoy to the check in for the 2am boat. Some bright spark tried to park up the police skoda that was driving past, before realising that it wasn't actually with us. I think the coppers thought we were mental, Milly was going to give them a Briskoda sticker!
A few people tried to sleep on the ferry, I was unsuccessful. I slept for about half an hour in the car at daybreak, only to wake up in a traffic jam, just before we got lost in a random belgian town, getting run over by people on bikes before realising we were walking down the cycle path. Getting lost stressed me out so much that I remained awake for the rest of the day!

Will was first to the czech border, Steve was the last, and my goodness was he MORTIFIED! loooossseerrrr!!!!!!

On arrival at the hotel, we located the nearest bar (next door) and started to drink on the street in the sun, which was very pleasant!! A small while later we noticed will and PostmanPat were missing. They arrived after dark to cheers and claps. Will, after refusing Emily's offer of sat nav, had got lost in Prague, driving aimlessly round and even down a flight of steps. There's only one will......thank god!

The first day we meandered down to a breakfast of cheese, ham, breadsticks, cornflakes, museli, yoghurt and some weird cake. By the last day I'd actually got the knack of cutting the breadsticks to make sandwiches!

Our brewery tour wasn't until 2pm, so a few of us caught the tram into the city. Little did we know that those trams are like mini rockets! We had barely got on when it shot off, scattering us in all directions!!

Jeff, Emily, Will, Colin and I then wandered off to explore, did some sight-seeing and went up the Tower on the Charles Bridge, where we watched a little video and Will & Jeff on the back row thought it would be funny to keep changing everyones headsets to random languages!
We crossed the bridge and saw the organ grinder....and will bought the CD We also called into the torture museum which was.....gruesome!!!
Everyone was supposed to meet at the hotel to go the the brewery, but as we were already close by we walked over, calling in a maccies where Colin went on the childrens slide, and we saw a small child unicycling down the street......

We arrived at the brewery (steve was last - AGAIN!) had samples of the Staropramen, went on the tour, ate the malt, then drank more samples! Then it was off for tea in town, where a few nutters started on the absinthe! We headed back to the tram stop, where we were accosted by an American TV crew from some God channel, then proceeded to argue with them about whether God existed etc. Very random!

Next day was factory day! Went round the museum then on the the factory in a coach, as there were too many cars this year for us to drive ourselves. They also gave us headsets this time too! After dinner (maccies again, as we couldnt understand the CZ or German menu in the sports bar!) a nice man from the Skoda factory came out to give us some model cars, and tried to arrange for us to see some concept cars. Unfortunately this failed, but its the thought that counts!

That night we all went out together for tea, it was a nice place, lovely food and absolutely hilarious because our table got wasted on absinthe, tequila and cocktails! Thats how we found out will was gay On the way back to the tube Will did his infamous Escalator Slide, followed by jumping on walls, dow steps and falling over a big plant pot, flat on his face!!

The next day we did Doksy, although Pete programmed the wrong place into his sat nav and ended up on the other side of prague lol! Jeff, Emily and Col left after the meet, but I jumped in wth Q and Nick and went on the drive, then on to the airfield, where I found a baby snake, which was very cute until it started attacking everyone!! We did some group shots then it was off for tea again. Col, Andrew, Alan, Will and I got lost after tea trying to find the others in Wenceslas Square, because Col's sat nav wasn't finding any satellites!! We found them eventually and went for a drink.

Sunday was our free day to do more sight seeing, so off we toddled to the castle, cathedral, bridge, river, gift shops, wenceslas square and then to the bodies exhibition - real dead bodies and body parts, very, very interesting! (Will and Steve were scared! ). We then went shopping in erotic city before dinner in the oldest pub in czech, all the way down to the basement, stone walls, long wooden tables and dead animals on the walls, it reminded me of a medieval banquet!! After that we visited the sex museum, and watched some porn from the 1900's!! We gave it narration, which entertained us greatly!

Next day was time to say bye bye We jump started Roo's car, as he'd left the beer chiller plugged in over night! Talk about priorities! lol!!!
Off we went to Tesco for alcohol, then set off for the ring!! We all did our laps and I was on a high for about an hour afterwards!!
We missed two ferries and ended up on the midnight crossing, Will, Col and myself invented 'Deck Olympics' while some of the others slept, finally getting back to Jeff and Emily's at 3am-ish, I was asleep in the back of Jeff's car by then! lol!

All in all it was a fantastic trip, and it was great to see you all again!! Hope to see you soon!!!
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Photos - in no particular order, because I can't be bothered!!!


Everyone arriving on the front at Dover



me and Andy on the ferry



Lorries boarding the ferry



Me and Milly outside the bar/hotel on arrival in CZ



me drinking outside the Hotel



me being childish



sightseeing round prague



bloody tourists!!





going up the hill to the castle



view from the hill



beautiful building next to the castle



more bloody tourists! At the castle



St Vitus's Cathedral

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Me and Milly outside the cathedral



inside....





Jeff liked to buy the unusual beverages available, including Semtex, Erektus and Hemp drink......hmmmmm





I was sharing a room with cousin It..



This is Charles Bridge



This is Charles Bridge Tower. It has crabs. We went up it and watched a video



This is the view from the top.





This is an organgrinder and his monkey who were on the bridge



more sightseeing



Colin on a playground



Brewery Tour





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Drinking in the bar by the hotel one evening



One of our many meals out..............





...............avec absinthe....................



........................and a Fany pick!!



Us being interviewed by the God Channel!!






Barrie asleep in his car hen we arrived home one night



"Ground control to Major Tom!!!"



Altogether now, sing it!!



Col and Wibble discovering their inner child!





Milly with her headset for the factory!



Me about to whoop Hayley's a$$ (with over 130bhp less! lol!)



"I'm a m*therf*ckin P-I-M-P!!"

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More absinthe



gayboy will and his Pina Colada!



Andy and Katie



Ermmmmmmmmm............................



Will getting some "Hot Love" just before dibbling it all down my pants!!



Gilly putting the rubbish out



Tram Surfing!!



Q's delightful coffee at Doksy....see how it has melted the stirrer into a new and interesting shape!!



mini group shots at Doksy of us in our geek T-shirts!





The baby snake I found on the airfield



English idiots!! "i'm sure you put one of the sauces on the bread, lets try this one" "What is it?" "dunno, cant read the label" (we concluded it must have been bovril!! )

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The museum at the top of Wenceslas Square





Me being immature again



Wenceslas Square still...



Wibble taking Will for a ride!



Red Bull in a bottle



MMM BEER!!





Yes, ok, so we know i'm immature!!



Andy and Katie in the hotel



More of those stupid English tourists!



Me and Emily lunching!



Roo being our 'tour guide' (you had to be there, massive groups of people flooding through the streets, each group following someone holding something random in the air! If they couldn't find anything random, they just used their hand! exaples of objects used - coloured umbrella, paper, half a tree, Roo's glasses!)







One of the guards outside the castle



The changing of the guard



The cathedral





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Castle grounds



Charles Bridge from the river bank



Emily, it's only a statue!!



(these statues moved their hips and lifted their willies up and down!!!









Weird statue of a horse hanging from the ceiling with a guy sat on it with a knife This was in the same building as the bodies exhibition)



The last supper...in the oldest pub in prague. Reminded me of medieval banquet!





(no, I didn't drink it, I borrowed it!!)



Outside the bar on the last night





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Next morning....



Time for some ring action







Everyone in some form of tvv@t attire!!







The first event of the Deck olympics (balancing on one foot!)






Yes, there are alot of photos, there are, infact, 97
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It looks like you all had a brilliant time.

I would've loved to have come. Oh well, maybe next time
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Nice pics Lozlet - even if most of them are of you !!!


(mind you maybe that's an advantage )
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353MB !

I suppose the millions of pictures are something to look at while it downloads
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Nice one! Good to see one of barbie girl in there too!
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Great pics

The Changing of the Guard pic - was that the Mods
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Great pictures Loz, looks like a good time was had by all.
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Fantastic report... where's Flat Eric?

Look forward to the movie once the download finishes
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Nice pics Lozlet - even if most of them are of you !!!


(mind you maybe that's an advantage )

Well I was going more for the social aspect, as the car aspect has already been covered really. I was generally with Will, Jeff, Emily and Col so most of the pics are of us!! Some of the pics will be off colins camera which gave me an opportunity to actually be in some for a change!!
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Fantastic report... where's Flat Eric?

Look forward to the movie once the download finishes


He is still sulking because he got banned
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Nice piccys lozkins .
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