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Any donations, no matter how great or small, will be greatly appreciated!

Some figures;

12.01.10 - Date of start of race

9.30 - Time of start of race (AM)

25 - Number of teams

2 - People per team

875 - KMs from Edinburgh to Paris

0 - Our travel budget :)

Start point : Bristo Square, Edinburgh

Finish point: St. Christophers Inn, Paris

Neither of us speak French, and have never hitch hiked in our life. Wish us luck!

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We made it :)

Pics here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=385984&id=578245446


Summary/high lights of trip
 
* Start race at Edinburgh Uni at 9.30am Friday, headed down to train station.
* Raise just under £40 at station (including some money for food/travel)
* After being flat out refused by 4 conductors and the guys at bus station, kind condutor lets us on a train to Newcastle at 11.30am
* Crew change on train at Newcastle, new conductor lets us stay on til London (Kings Cross) - get into London at 3.50pm
* Get train from Kings Cross to London Bridge (using donated travel money)
* Another kind conductor allows us to get on train to Dover - train leaves at 4.45PM.
* Get into Dover station at 6.20pm, kind lady pays for taxi to Dover port -get to port at 6.30pm.
* Start trying to get lift at Dover, asking drivers in the ticket centre and parked outside, and standing by side of road/roundabout/petrol station.
* Previously told hitch hiking in Dover was illegal, so decided it was a good idea to try thumb a lift right outside the police station, with 2 police vans next to us.
* Spent 8 hours trying to get a lift, then go and sit inside to warm up/dry out/get an hours kip.
* End up paying for ferry across to Boulonge (south of Calias) at 7am Saturday after being at Dover for over 12 hours.
* Get into Boulonge, fail at getting ride on train to Paris.
* 4 of us (2 teams) get a lift from main road out of Paris after waiting for about 30 mins, get dropped off on motorway at a toll
* After waiting at toll for 15mins, British family pick the 2 of us up. Very nice people, and bought us food/drink.
* Family end up being awesome and take us to a block away from hostel (the finish line).
* Get into hostel at 3.30pm Saturday, 8th place (out of 23 teams), after leaving Edinburgh 29hours earlier.


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Thanks, Duane and Euan :)

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