Test Fart (it's spelt Fahrt)

[Loiq]

I have a couple of days free for August, first time since my team supported The Adventure Travel Film Festival.... so doing a bunk seems a good option...

the plan... not made one, it's not far away... more like a trip into the middle distance...
the location... Koinigswiesen Schleswig

Wikingertage in Schleswig und Eckernförde

Die Wikingertage zählen zu den größten Wikinger-Veranstaltungen Europas:

wikingertage.de

why go.... well when I was kid and we lived there, they started to find a few viking artifacts... these locations have been in continous excavation and research since the early 70's.... this is by far the largest viking group of settlements in one area...
who's going .... nobody else has any time so it's me...
when does it start.... gates open friday so my plan is wheels up thursday....

what are you hoping to find.... booze, old stuff to look at, food.... might be nice...

method of travel.... truck of luck mk 2
Accomodation.... Jesus now this is ready pushing it, hammock staying in "the gehege" it's an enclosed woodland of sorts and if the weather is bad I might stay in a Land Haus... but not worked that out yet...

Not sure why but the sea has been calling me for a while..... which is unusual cos I didn't know my viking name was "oiye ****"

but I'm very keen to have a go in one of these...



what could possibly go wrong..... guess we'll find out in a few days

 

[Loiq]

oh and of course why is it called "test fahrt" well it's german isn't it... for "test drive".... literal translation... it could be argued that's it's actually "test journey..." however the level of comedy value isn't there is it.... and

As someone who lives openly as a German in the UK... "I take comedy really seriously....!"

 

[Wapping]

The word for ‘speed’ in Swedish is ‘fart’, it being close to German.

A few years ago Volvo had excellent profits, which triggered a double page banner headline in the Swedish equivalent of the Financial Times which said…..

FULL FART VOLVO

Sadly I have lost my copy of it.

 

[Loiq]

damn it, I'd have paid good money, english money... to see that.... !

 

[Wapping]

Over the years I have tried scouring old copies of Dagens Industri, trying to find it. No joy.

 

[Loiq]

just made a little map of the journey... it's about 600 miles... this is almost the start of the trip report.... now that I've written it down it's gonna go tits up...! I just know it....

 

[The Other PaulG]

Looks like you're starting at my place. Let me know when to put the kettle on...

 

[Loiq]

Looks like you're starting at my place. Let me know when to put the kettle on...

your the otherside of guildford... I'm this side... (that sort of makes sense in my head)

 

[Wapping]

I knew I didn’t dream it….

Full fart i Volvo LVs fabriker

Volvo Lastvagnar har sett en "mycket bra orderingång" i Europa, och de svårigheter som Volvo upplevde i samband med produktionsomställningen är nu…

www.di.se

Swedish flatulence is a recurring theme, it seems. This about a fart in the stock market bourse:

Stockholmsbörsen: Uppgången tappar fart

Stockholmsbörsen handlades efter lunch alltjämt på plus, även om förmiddagens uppgång mattats något. Bland storbolagsvinnarna märktes telekomsektorn, både i Sverige och i Europa i övrigt, medan ett antal verkstads- och råvarubolag bolag hade en trögare utveckling. Getinge rasade planenligt...

www.di.se

 

[Loiq]

Genius......

 

[Loiq]

nearly dark, packed my stuff..... full tank of fuel, there's 624miles to go, I'm wearing a viking hat and sunglasses.... what could possibly happen....

with abit of luck ..... Viking Stuff ....!

 

[Loiq]

jesus christ play list..... WTF....!

 

[Loiq]

that wasn't a nice drive.... M25 shut, M20 shit, M2 shut loads of redirects and delays... I did see a well ridden GS snot past me in the middle of the night... probably an off road god.... Antwerp ring road was rubbish and loads of traffic jams in the middle of the night which begs the questions where are they all going...?

 

[Wapping]

Antwerp is always a disaster, no matter when or how you go. As far as I can tell, it’s a giant set of roadworks.

 

[Loiq]

Antwerp is always a disaster, no matter when or how you go. As far as I can tell, it’s a giant set of roadworks.

been like it for 20+ years, I beleive the story was they took the signs off to clean'em and never put'em back in the right place... anyway I'm currently nursing a meade hangover... in the making... but there's 300-450 people living openly as vikings which I didn't know was a thing till today...

 

[Loiq]

well that was abit of a mad trip now I just need to get back... pictures to follow...

 

[Loiq]

So I left my house around midnight got the Dover the whole sailing was none eventful, but the inner joy of being in pole position... did make me smile.... worst bit I made the mistake of having what I can only describe was the unusual stew... the red bits are all chilly.... (more on that later) and I still really didn't have any idea what the expect in germany.... having seen the posters for the viking festival probably 10 ish years ago on a previous trip to take care of some family business........ so it's been on the list of things to tick off...

 

[Loiq]

The best bit of driving into the darkness, just empty roads .... which always makes me think about how far can I drive without using the breaks... again not recommended unless your set your mind to it... This trip I managed about 350 miles on the way up... again best not to just give driving without the breaks a go cos it can really go wrong. this is my disclaimer to doing naughty stuff....cos it can go really wrong.... worst of all some place outside of Arnhem... and I didn't have any change... sootching under the kids barrier is very undignified at my age.... the chilly stew "brown stodge" didn't travel all that well........ fuel consumption is latest nerdy thing... see what can I get out of the truck of luck Mk2. Got to my base of operations which I had to have a walk around... noticed they removed all the headstones and made the church more accessible... and then I found my digs a small land hotel reasonably priced at £40 B+B...

 

[Loiq]

hotel and room... they apologised cos there's a wedding and it might be noisy... whatever... was my thoughts on the subject... I mooched out for a walk round town and to see what properties cost... cos that's another one of my pet things.... and booze.... my fav is Flensburger one of the oldest and still family owned breweries... If you find some check it out.... but Boelk stuff (comedy beer) came about from a cartoon that's in the local spoken Platt (regional language spoken from the north of Holland all the way across to Poland and beyond up to Danemark... if you can speak it you'll be anyone's friend aslo it's very disarming to the locals..... The house for sale was about 100K (euros)

 

[Loiq]

the cartoon for context, involves an assortment of village idiots who work for the local master plumber.... and they like to muck about like everyone on the tools... plus all run about on custom motorcycles.... it's very german, very of that area in showing the gritty side of being working man...