Communications cockup results in navigator jettisoning fuel cap in attempt to lighten load

Fellow Sauna Enthusiasts.

The alps are pretty nippy in a towel.

After reaching Interlaken by the most roundabout route imaginable - some 700 miles from Calais - HMS Stockholm rolled into Centre Ville with burning brakes a clonking clutch and a dying diff following her arduous alpine ascension (Interlaken is on the wrong side of the alps).

Sven Svenson`s report on the condition of the car:

Engine sound: genuinely terrible; not unlike a fifty year old tug boat.

Appearance: quite excellent. The general procedure for pedestrians and drivers alike seems to be to stop, gawp, laugh and leave. Overtakers commonly swerve manically towards us, thus allowing their snotty ten year olds to take pictures of the "wooden car". Which is actually a Sauna in case we`ve failed to mention this.

Spare parts used: one fuel cap, left on the roof after our umpteenth refuel of the day; we`re doing about ten to the gallon with a tail wind and are thinking of things to jettison. At the moment, 600 tins of baked beans seem like the most likely candidate.

Lars Larson`s report on the level of supplies: enough to sustain the saunagoers through a decade or two of nuclear winter.

The plans for today: We leave for Bormio in Italy via an alpline pass (we`re hoping it`s not the same one we entered interlaken by last night as it would amuse the occupants of our sister ship "The Turdo" no end - they took the motorway into town like most other sensible folk.

The most valuable item we^ve packed so far are the off road use only headlamps (supplied by our kind sponsor at Dane Valley) which enabled us to steer the good ship through small Swiss towns illuminating every front room and etching "Volvo" backwards onto the foreheads of passers by.

The spare fuel cap was also pretty useful.

Until tomorrow friends.

T&C

p.s. the online tracking, Im sad to report, doesn`t work - you`ll have to do it yourself. Which is more fun anyway. Go to google maps and type INTERLAKEN, SWITZERLAND. To see the whole route so far, or at least a vauge approximation of it, do a google route plan between Sevenoaks and Interlanken, Switzerland via Luzern, (also in this land of chocolate bank accounts.)