Event of the Year 2020

(Den)mark My Words (Arrived)

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  • Feb. 28, 2024, 8:58 p.m. - WE MADE IT Open up the champagne, pop! It's my house, come on, turn it up Hear a knock on the door and the night begins 'Cause we done this before so you come on in Make yourself at my home, tell me where you been Pour yourself something cold, baby, cheers to this reunited with the lovely team and already stripping off! Signing off - Posy, Susannah n Josh xxx
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 8:16 p.m. - Hello Joshua again. Danish border control mean business and have a cute working dog(and man - posy cobntribution). We are now an hour ish away from our bus stop. Hope to be in the capitol soon.
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 4:54 p.m. - Die Räder am Bus drehen sich rundherum, Rundherum, Rundherum. Die Räder am Bus drehen sich rundherum, Den ganzen Tag. Prepare the red carpet Copenhagen! I know you’re all awaiting our arrival with bated breath but fear not soon we shall grace you with our presence once more. And you will see what’s still in store. (Ps on a bus!)
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 2:02 p.m. - in Hamburg train station figuring out next steps! Let's see where we end up!
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 11:37 a.m. - We blagged our way onto 2 buses and now sat comfortably on the upstairs deck of a train destined for Hamburg. Just about the entire German army stopped at our previous service station but we were not recruited as comrades!
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 8:49 a.m. - First message from me(Josh) still no progress today hopefully some soon. Weirdly every person is heading to Bremen.
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 5:26 a.m. - Old MacDonald had a farm Ee i ee i o And on his farm he had some cows Ee i ee i oh With a moo-moo here And a moo-moo there Readers! Huge challenge for all of you - take a wild guess where we are hint : 3 Michelin star restaurant. Hoping to accost an unassuming hamburg(er)-goer soon.
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 2 a.m. - ASLEEP at service station
  • Feb. 28, 2024, 12:02 a.m. - We have been dropped off by Mark and his new car between Bremen and Hamburg at an interesting German service station
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 10:05 p.m. - wow wow and more wow. What can I say except we are still speeding our way through Germany. Josh is snoring away but we are on the move! I made a beautiful diary entry earlier on this journey which I will post on our insta at some point because it is quite some prose if I can say so myself
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 7:38 p.m. - Dikestras was lovely as previously mentioned although he did drop us off at possibly the worst service Station possible (we have said that 4 times now) but we then heard the revving roaring engine of a Peugeot sports car and after a little chat a man headed to Sweden is kindly taking us somewhere in Germany hooray! We’re in his brand new car and he owns a very impressive collection, acquired over his years of living in 13 countries.
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 6:40 p.m. - Dikestras, Belgian man (and avid Scottish indpendence supporter) warned us many times that if he were his children, he wouldn’t not condone this but nonetheless we have been taken to another service station and officially cross the border into the Netherlands!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 5:05 p.m. - You know you love me (yo), I know you care (uh-huh) Just shout whenever (yo), and I'll be there (uh-huh) You are my love (yo), you are my heart (uh-huh) And we will never, ever, ever be apart (yo, uh-huh) We are in Antwerp now, 30 mins in and 3 police encounters witnessed and 3 hungry hitchhikers fed. We’re off to service station to try our luck.
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 1:01 p.m. - After a Flemish blemish confused about train names, we found a delightful man and blagged our way onto a train from Lille into Brussels. Faith in humanity restored. Merci SNCF!
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 11 a.m. - Team 7 - Ramenez la coupe à la Maison Allez les bleus, allez France nous te voyons babyyy. We’re making a Lille trip and from there nous espérerons une ange after a long awaited boulangerie break. We’ve been told recently about a 3 year long no money no technology German pilgrimage where they carry big sticks and wear Victorian clothes so if you don’t hear from us you know what we’re up to.
  • Feb. 27, 2024, 7:52 a.m. - Maidstone Maidstone Maidstone it's been lovely but in t-minus 10 minutes we shall be parting ways with thy towards Lille on a bus ! So long, sucker
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 9:17 p.m. - We are going to try to get 40 winks is ambitious but 1 or 2 would be nice! Up for an early start to get out of Maidstone once and for all
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 6:47 p.m. - Maidstone has no one going towards to Dover apart from one man who couldn't fit us in as the shopping was on one seat. We will try to do some evening hitching still hoping to leave this lovely warm service station, but it is looking more likely it may be our home for the night.... maccies it may be for dinner again, either that or taco canned bean
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 3:08 p.m. - So, after a stop in Folkestone ‘stop24’ we have come up with 24 reasons to rip our eyeballs out xxx so even though we’re going back courtesy on ourselves, courtesy of a lovely jazz singer, we are headed towards Ashford ANYTHING is better than staying there.
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 2:29 p.m. - upon a little to much excitement about leaving Maidstone and someone buying us hot chocolates, we are now stuck in Folkestone services having tried to get hitches.
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 12:41 p.m. - finally picked up from Maidstone !!!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 11:17 a.m. - In a drop top, doin' hundred, y'all in my rearview mirror racin' Where y'all at? Where y'all at? Where y'all at? We waved goodbye to another team as we swang right past them and Cat gave us a efficient 10/10 ride to Maidstone where unsurprisingly have already seen 2 other mighty race efforts.
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 10:20 a.m. - we have finally hitched a lift from Thurrock!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 7:51 a.m. - Thurrock u thoroughly rock or at least we hope you will. Apple brioche Camembert Denmark elephant f goo h icicle job lot of paper clips k l meringue - this is how far through the I went to the shops game we got before snores were heard.
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 5:32 a.m. - Went from Mr. 305 (Dade County) To Mr. Worldwide (all around the word), ayy, ayy Now we're international, so international (oh, yeah) International (woo) so international Man, myth, legend Mihran gave us a free taxi ride and told us tales from Mexico to Morocco - now to Dover we go!
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 4:31 a.m. - taking a nap? We absolutely do not associate with her. But we can say after meeting a lovely man nationally expressing himself, we have made it to Stansted and are refreshing and relaxing !
  • Feb. 26, 2024, 1:46 a.m. - Well all we can see right now is Ronald McDonald’s playpark. Have been camping outside a Colchester mds for 2hrs. Going to walk to bus stop at 2:15 to hopefully get 3:05 to Stanstead! Eek.
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 10:31 p.m. - Tried our luck (clearly all out) at the Harwich ferry. Ladie's eyeshadow was lovely, her personality was not. Waiting for a train to Colchester at Harwich international.
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 9:59 p.m. - CORRECTION - the RUSS to our Rachel xx
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 8:33 p.m. - the ROSS to our Rachel, a lovely man has picked us up and is driving us down his road (civil engineer) to Colchester. Let’s gooo
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 7:32 p.m. - aquí - Power and the money, money and the power Minute after minute, hour after hour Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin' It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin' Golden Arches consumed. Peterborough we are coming for you. Be afraid. Xx
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 5:59 p.m. - Yeehaw onwards we trot still with Sam who has told us all about her archeology job which we all dig ;) and a 24 hr cake shop in Dundee which we will defo have to try !
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 3:02 p.m. - After being shouted at by a man who definitely didn't have the authority to do so, lovely Sam has picked us up and we are on the road to Peterborough woohoo !
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 1:05 p.m. - We're soarin' Flyin' There's not a star in heaven That we can't reach If we're trying Yeah we're breaking free Sweet talkers we are - nothing but pure enamoration for the kind people of this world - we’ve hit England! lunch now for us
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 9:32 a.m. - GUYS were in Perth after a free bus ride ! As a first timer here I’m obsessed.
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 8:12 a.m. - Team 7 clocking in from a Dundeelightful location! So now I gotta cut loose Footloose Kick off the Sunday shoes ⁃ from a soulless retail park !
  • Feb. 25, 2024, 7:10 a.m. - team 7 reporting from the quad - all 3 members and a pink tutu here. Ready to hop on a bus and get this show on the road.