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Aire Waves
Leeds Canoe Club Blog. We paddle... lots!
Airewaves used to be Leeds Canoe Club's magazine letting people know what the club was upto. Its quite hard work pulling together a publication letting people know what the club is doing and publishing dates in advance is always hard as things tend to change. Step forth the blog.. Push button publishing for the masses. So here is the idea a few people in the club take it in turns to write up trips and talk about things in the club.
Sunday, July 24, 2005Smokin...
Up early and with any luck we'll get a paddle in this afternoon..
We sat around the front of the formula 1 waiting for Nick and family to appear. After awhile we started to wonder where they were and eventually found out they had got up early and left as they needed to get a key for their appartment.
Setting off to have breakfast at the first service area we go to we noticed alot of black smoke coming from out the back of Jonny's car. Over breakfast we decided that its probably been like that all night and that we had best get recoveredagain.. A few phone calls later and we had a tow arranged and a hire car to get us to Landeck. we waited around in the service area after we had arranged for our boats to be taken to Austria by Andy and Gill, Steve and Wendy. Jonathan D also went with them so he could get a paddle in..
The second tow of the holiday arrived the car was put on the back and we jumped in the back of the lorry. Between me and Jonny our German was limited... well non exsistant really and the recovery man didn't speak a great deal of english either. We were taken to the Opal dealer in Lhar and awaited our hire car..
Eventually we found out that the hire car wasn't coming to us, we had to get to it. Freiburg was our destination but we had no car. So we were sent a Taxi to take us there. Finally we meet someone who could speak pretty good english. As we got in we were asked if we were from Manchester to which we said no, but we are from Leeds. The Taxi driver was an Iraqi who fled the country about 12 years ago but before that he was an oil engineer and had sutidied at Leeds. This man was our saviour he got us to the hire car depot and brought us back again! Finally we had a car that worked again. We started to load all of our kit into the Volvo S50 which we were given. For an estate it was pretty small, we filled it up completely. Luck jonthan had gone on ahead. Back on the road again we were on the autobahns and heading for Austria. No sat nav meant we were map reading for a bit but that was soon fixed. On the Autobahns there are no speed limits so we took the car as fast as it went. We got to Landeck at about 11pm. On the way we had heard that a some paddling had been done and that someone had been swimming... We got to the campsite bar and had a few beers and caught up with Andy's swmming on the Sanna..
Swims
Sanna - Andy Hall
