We're back........

Firstly  a huge apology for going quiet over the past couple of months. We have been beavering away behind the scenes........

A trip to collect the promotion pack from the RNLI

The MCOB information titled -  Black Forest Gateau Rally Bible 2014 became available last week. It gives all the details of the route, places to stay, check in points, disposal of cars (very good section as long as you speak fluent French - help!) and most importantly dress up details and socials.

Our favourite part is the Monaco F1 Race Circuit Map - can't wait to drive around there! We will publish the top speed we get out of Martha! 

After much debate we have decided to track our route with 'map my tracks' or similar so you can see how many u-turns and wrong routes we take.

Details of the routes, arrangements and fun stuff that is happening will be blogged over the next few weeks.

A huge thank you to everyone who has sponsored us and our two main sponsors, these logo's will look great on the car. Please keep sharing this blog and encouraging your friends to donate. There is still a lot of space on the car for more company logos

And

Money, money,money.............

.......always funny, in the RNLI world.

Well, what can we say other than  THANK YOU (not for the music) but for the awesome donations

We are now sitting at a total of £420 for the RNLI. 

A big thanks to the individuals and 

Who generously donated £150, looking forward to adding your logo to Martha

also 

Who donated a massive £250! Bonnet for you Marcus (and thanks for 'encouraging' others!)

The RNLI have been really grateful of our support and we have received many lovely emails from them.

Please keep giving, there is still lots of space on Martha for advertising or just give a few pounds if you can.......

 http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Tummel_Tourists 

More coming soon

.....and then there was three.......

A trip to Costco to purchase some plastic cups and plates for our journey proved to be very interesting! 

On our journey we were planning the things we may need and what we would absolutely have to bring back with us, coming home from Nice on a budget airline and too mean to pay for hold luggage influences our packing.

I mentioned having been in France last year I have a lot of what is needed to be legal on the French roads - yellow vest, alcohol breathe tasters etc.

"Ah but we are not going into France" states Jo!!!  At which point the decision is made, I will be the navigator and Jo can be the chief mechanic, she has the duct tape after all! 

I might add that I was so busy winding Jo up about not knowing Nice was in France I managed to go into autopilot and take the road via the airport rather than staying on the M9, M8 then onto the by-pass. I covered my error by explaining I was going to Morrisons at the Gyle for fuel! Don't tell Jo

During coffee and cake in Ikea we decided two things

1.       If we don't stop eating cake we will need 2 seats each on the flight home

2.       We should perhaps take someone else along with us 

So here he is, our faithful friend. He will be photographed at lots of exciting places through out our travels. He's much more photogenic than we are...no comments please....

Unfortunately he doesn't have a name. Can you please help name him. We are going to run this as a Facebook competition with an 'excellent prize'

 More coming soon.......

RNLI needs you money!

Hi

We have now set up our charity page. Any small amount would be greatly appreciated.

RNLI are a charity that saves lives at sea. 
In order to keep the fleet of over 330 lifeboats in service, the RNLI has to raise over £145M each year to maintain the service, which can see lifeboats launch around 9000 times and rescue around 8000 people.

A worthy cause if you've seen Jo in a boat! (Sorry pal!)

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Tummel_Tourists

Meeting Martha

Very exciting day.  After a walk round Comrie with the dogs and a planning meeting as we walked (oh, actually we were planning whether to eat our cake before or after lunch!) we went to visit Martha,

Martha is our trusty steed, well 2004 Suzuki Alto automatic! She is in amazing condition just needs a rear axel and a few other repairs. 

Comrie Garage t/a MGK Motors has kindly given the car and offered to do the work if we source the parts. How awesome is that, thanks so much Louise and Michael 

Martha has a CD player for our tunes and 2 cup holders in the front (unlike other people's car who only have one, you know who you are!!!!)

Convincing the families

Convincing the families

Fairly easy, we discovered if you talk a lot, quickly while handing out glasses of wine (even to the kids!) that everyone stops listening and as you hand over the glass look up at you and say 'yes'.
That was good enough for us so onto the website to register!!!

Register for the event

Should have been an easy task but being stingy Scots we were fully aware all 'girl' teams got a £50 discount. Oh what to do! Do we wait until the all female category is up and risk not getting a place or 'man' up and pay the full amount!
As you've probably guessed we paid the full amount. We did however email the organisers who very promptly refunded us, I think the money went into the 'eat as much as you like on the ferry' fund!

More to follow...... please keep looking

Hi everyone

Thanks for looking at our blog.

As you've probably guessed we are taking part in the Monte Carlo or Bust Rally. There are 2 routes this year but we are going for the June date as it is called 'Black Forest Gateau' . It is important to know this as 'cake' always features highly in everything we do!

So, what's it all about..........

Buy a car for £250 or less and hit Europe’s greatest roads and cities for 3 days to Monte Carlo.  Complete challenges, laugh lots and maybe raise some cash for your favourite charity (RNLI in our case)  Monte Carlo or Bust is the ultimate European banger rally adventure.

Find out more on the MCOB website

So what do we do first

• Convince the families they could do without us for just under a week.
• Register for the event
• Look for a car
• Organise donating to the RNLI