Well well well… As it happened next day after being booted out of Brugge for ‘No Cars Sunday’, we finally got a chance to push the car on the autobahn!

We did get up some speed but then started to hit roadworks and this left us with only one option but to cut short our proposed final destination (Hamburg) and make a detour to Hannover. Neither of us had been here before but we both believed it to be worth visiting.  So we arrive late in the evening in Hannover and almost immediately find a good cheap hotel for the night.

(Sorry thought I’d taken a picture of the City Hotel Thuringer Hof)!

We decided to pop out for a quick Currywurst, and for me a Craft beer which was pretty disgusting!

 

We then walked around the old town before it got too dark

We had such fun waking up at 4am and just catching the ferry while the car was broken down – see here.

Once we arrived in Dunkirk,  Shaun took his first turn in the car and we quickly moved up the gears. A few stalls later and all was well as we motored up out of France and into Belgium.

 

Clearly the excitement of the day took its toll and we decided to stop over in Brugge and then make a move early next day to reach hopefully Denmark. Let’s see tomorrow how we got on.

Having not been to Brugge for a while it was a lot of fun to be back there again and we enjoyed a good meal and a pleasant nights sleep.

So we set off on our Norway Dry run, leaving London at 4am and heading south to Dover, famous for its white cliffs. Simon was driving.

We thought we’d have a bit of fun and create a temporary team logo for the Norway dry run – and here it is, Thanks James!

So just as we arrive at Dover, a little red flashing light pops up on the dashboard of the car, Shaun hurriedly looks through the manual to see what it means.  Coolant is low.   How that happened we have no idea as it was good a month ago. Anyway called out the RAC to make sure there wasn’t something more serious and he confirmed all is well…. so on we went.

Thank you to the RAC for helping us make our ferry on time!

Shaun’s reaction to the car breaking down 🙂

White cliffs of Dover

Lovely English Weather on the ferry crossing.

Please donate here if you’re enjoying our Norway dry run, more blog posts and soon some photos for the gallery!

See our next post for where we got to once we arrived in Dunkirk!

Sorry for the relative silence, Simon was away travelling in the Philippines on another venture and just didn’t have time to update things here.

Anyway, as you may have heard, Simon only got his driving license in July so we’ve planned to go on a dry run rally up Norway to the Arctic Circle. This will take place from September 17th until sometime in the first week of October. We have been stocking up on what we need, and hopefully most of this stuff will make the real journey on the Mongol Rally in 2017!

We will be doing some Blog entries during the trip, and will be updating the Gallery page with some stunning photos so please do follow us on twitter (@footiemadnomads) for those.

Please don’t forget to Donate if you haven’t already, we are working hard trying to achieve a good result for our two charities and hope you will help us along the way.

Some of the things we hope to see…