Gaz picks us up from the train and as promised takes us to a couple of his locals in York. We spend several hours enjoying the scenary and and ales and he introduces us to one of his mates Johnny. from here he takes us to his dads where we are treated like royalty, fed an awsome BBQ and warm Fosters (Not So Good) but the company was great and we were reunited with Adam so we had unexpectadly seen all three of our Poms within 5 days of landing in the country. After Tea we meet Mickey, he's in the Army reserves and as only someone who's in the army reserves would do he rocks up in his army reserves uniform and that's my first impression of him, unfortunately, his first impression of me is me trying to make jokes about him being in his army reserves uniform but oh well, you move on. off to Mickey's to meet what can only be described as THE VAN. The photo's will describe better than I can but this Machine is an OldSkool Bus (16 Seater) with all of the seats apart from the front 5 femoved and replaced with an all in one Table and chairs, Bed for four, Storage compartment slash bedroom. this is what the boys bought with just 400quid each. Trust me it's bloody impressive and it took the 5 of us around Europe in 3 weeks doing over 4,400kms.
The following morning we wake and we're off to go and get and meet Sam from Oxford, (He was getting the train to York like us). On meeting sam I thought he was a bit quiet, and I was right, but I didn't see the wicked sence of humour that would help us all through this 3 weeks in a very close vacinity to eachother. Gaz being a man of his word, showed Sam (with Mez and I happily in toe) around a couple of his locals. so with a couple in us were were ready to get the van ready for departure and by 7 we were on the road toward our 9 o' clock ferry.
