Day 3 July 6th 2022
Today I was with Alison as the shuttle host. Although we had been teamed up together during the training, due our R&R days this was the first day we actually worked together. On R&R days there are relief drivers and shuttle hosts to cover our duties. We were scheduled to be in Portsmouth at the D Day museum at 16:00. We decided to arrive early and have time to look round the museum and Southsea Castle. We found the D Day museum easily and then went to find our IP (Insertion Point) . This is the place where our first BB will be dropped to start their segment and where we wait for the Pilot vehicle to find us and lead us to all the locations, indicated with a pink circular sticker, to drop off our BBs. It was a good thing we went to look for the postcode was not very accurate. We soon found the location, which was the Charles Dickens house museum.
The team manager had set us a challenge today which was to find the most unusual hat. As we had some spare time we went to B&Q to get a coir hanging basket liner to make a hat, which was decorated with a windmill and lighthouse purchased at Southsea Castle.
Here is the hat and it was the winner!
We didn’t finish dropping off our BBs until 19:45 and it was nearly 22:00 when we arrived at the hotel in Guildford for the night, I though was in a different hotel to Alison. Trevor, my roommate, and I had to drive to the Holiday Inn in Woking where we found that the room only had one bed, they had to get another bed – it was 00:30 before we were able to go to bed. I knew Trevor from 2014 when both of us did the Baton Relay around Scotland.
<End of Day 3, Day 4 to follow shortly>
No comments:
Post a Comment