Morning after the longest day

Formule 1 hotel is a really funny place. The reception is open till 7pm, after 7 you can insert your credit card into a slot, they charge you, you get a code, you go in and sleep. There’s no staff. Actually this is quite understandable, as French are on holiday or on strike 250 days of the 365, and the rest is national holiday or weekend. The hotel is made of plastic, it smells like a plane. It’s 40 degrees Celsius in one room and 10 in the other. I’m sure Germans are sad that it wasn’t them who invented it. To our greatest surprise there’s wi-fi. Decent wi-fi, not some upgraded minitel. Of course it was extremely expensive, plus at 3am none was in the mood to log on.

Gyula slept in the bus, and woke up at 5am to repair something. There were problems with the bus. By morning there was a nice big puddle under the bus, we could have had a bath in it. Gyula, Tuti and Soma worked on it, by now it’s ok.

We reached Spain. Must knows about the Spanish highway: it’s full of Spanish, and everything is written in Spanish. We are ahead of the rest of the teams, because yesterday we came 300 kms more than the others. However being ahead of them is only a matter of time.

The others are slowly-slowly taking over us. This Ikarus was constructed to commute between Bosnyak square and Kelenfold, or between Szekesfehervar and Bakonycsernye, have some rest at the last stop, then go to the other end of that route, not to do 1000 km in one go a day. Time by time we have to stop for half an hour, screw or fix or oil or grease this and that. We loaded the watertank and it turned out, that the tank has a hole in it. On our way we have a watermark behind us, like Ariadne with her string. We have 2 100 liter tank, tied together, so whoever wants can follow us till Almeira. Not if it would be that difficult, there’s a straight motorway leading there.

We reach the fishy weather. Around us orange is bein harvested everywhere, it’s approx. 12-15 degrees Celsius, and the driving area is suitable for a sunbath. Good bye winter, it was enough of you. It would be great if back at home the weather would be just like this at the beginning of February. I brought only a pair of trainers.