Obviously the motivation was there but many have suggested the concept of driving a fire engine around the world has a hint of a mid thirties crisis ! In some way hanging onto my youth. At no point is this true, in no way did I drag the crew round Sydney today, showing them where I lived and played in Sydney when I was 22 and in no way I am hanging on too tight. Okay, well maybe a little bit…
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For Claire Hester from the stage 5 crew. We had officially retired from
Cab Karaoke so this is quite the treat (or maybe not).
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Port Fairy to Lorne
High Point : Hanging out of a helicopter filming the fire engine cruising down the Great Ocean Road
Favourite Bit of Rock : London Bridge
Blog Blockage : After 4 months of nagging every crew member to get their blog done on time I have fallen guilty of “blog blockage”, I can only apologise
The three chaps on stage 5 (Perth to Brisbane) are proudly sporting awesome tashes for Movember. We have met many many tashes already in Australia so if you spot our fire engine and have an equally awesome tash, pop over for a photo !
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More about Movember..
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High Point : Meeting a comedy legend
Low Point : Exploring an Opal Mine (only low because it was underground, it was awesome)
Auction Gift of the Day : Opal jewellery kindly donated by the Old Timers Mine
Underground Town of the Day : Coober Pedy
Mining panic of the day : getting thrown down a mining hole if you find Opal and are silly enough to tell anyone
Best accommodation of stage 5 so far : underground quarters
Quote of the day from Don : Disco Steve don’t advertise
Kalgoorlie to Laverton
High Point : Martha getting to stretch her legs on the incredible road to Laverton
Low Point : The bottom of the Kalgoorlie Super Pit
No Point : I have been wearing one of Paul’s socks for 4 days
Dish of the day : Camping style hot dogs and pasta
Excessive Caffeine Intake : 3 coffees, 3 diet cokes and a V Energy Drink.
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High Point : Clearing quarantine in a world record time
Low Point : Getting lost in Morley
After a day of panic yesterday, today was a big day. The number of inter dependencies on this expedition is insane. Frankly it is a house of cards, a donkey on the edge. The fear of 4 weeks stuck at the port was not even funny. Louise, Fuad and Amy have arrived in Oz to dominate stage 5, spending 4 weeks in quarantine would have been a disaster.
High Point : Appearing on the 7 o’clock news all over Asia.
Low Point : Not being able to hang out in a fire station everyday
It’s always nice when you pop over to someone’s house and they not only offer a cup of tea but a cheeky little biscuit on the side too. Well our day with the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was the equivalent of my gran making her entire house out of biscuits for my visit.
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Like Hasslehoff in Germany, FTFE make their mark in Asia again
You stay classy Singapore ….
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The old girl has been through so much over the last 96 days. Everything has been thrown at her. Back in London, Asset Co did an amazing job in preparing a 16 years old fire engine for a very tough journey. To keep her on the road, the crew have daily and weekly checks to run through. She has had 3 services so far in Lativa, Mongolia and Singapore. Each time, the engineers very excited working on this beauty.
