//Reviews
Bridlington
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Bridlington kind of represents the end of the rally
season for me so for that reason it’s a mixed emotion rally.
Traditionally the weather for the journey is shit, usually really windy
and over the years has been really hard work on the scoots. I still
remember the year (2002?) I went on the bike and a caravan blew off the
road in front of me!!, and the year after when Jeannie got so cold she
fell off her scoot at a standstill and couldn’t breathe properly. Bit of
hypothermia! (just an excuse to drink brandy!) Anyway, as a result and
due to the fact both scoots needed hip replacements after this years
efforts, for the second year running we found ourselves on our
concession car rally and heading down the A1 towards East Yorkshire.
After a quick bite in the increasingly popular posh digs, we headed
across to the Southcliffe to see if the carpet could possibly be any
stickier this year! Actually, come to think of it, that’s all we did the
whole weekend – camped days in the Southcliffe and slept nights across
the road!?! Met up with a good turnout from Edinburgh supplemented with
an excellent turnout from the various English branches and also Sweden
including old friends Jonathan, Rolf and Ante, who even had clothes on
some of the time!
At this point a well-deserved mention must go out to
Davie Russell. Can you believe the guy? After all my feeble excuses in
the first paragraph, not only did
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take his T5 to Brid, he also picked up his girl on the way. Good effort?
Consider then she only lives in bloody Telford!!!!
470 mile journey each way by the quickest route so I dare say it worked
out more. Well done son!
(p.s was it worth it, wink-wink!)
Highlights of the weekend for me included an unmissable karaoke session
with Willie Grieve outstanding performance. Hilarious – check the video
on the site. And a superb rendition of ‘My Way’ by a pogo-ing John Boy
Walton, recently released back into circulation after an unplanned
extended holiday. Nice to see you mate. Quick mention also to Shrek and
the rest the Worksop Lions, who we had a blether with. ‘My Mam’s a
midget lesbian eh!’ You had to be there. They rescued Jeannie
last year when she seized her scoot in Holland. Nice one. Was temped to
eat in the Southcliffe on Saturday when I saw the plateful Davy and Dude
got for only a few pound but the 50% fat on Dudes gammon changed my
mind! Turned out to be the best decision I made all weekend as me and
Jeannie ended up having a superb dinner in the posh digs with Norman and
Isabel. Thanks you pair and congratulations on the engagement. Back at
the Ranch (oops – wrong
rally), the beers were really starting to do some damage and it got a
bit messy! I had Ante asking me every 5 mins how cold the sea would be?
‘I vont to go svimming’!!! haha - Life and Soul mate, it would’ve been a
duller rally without you, although Jeannie says she prefers it when you
don’t wipe your armpits on her. Can’t think why?! Then Mark, who endured
a bollocking from Fiona for one reason or another, without altering the
cheesy smile on his coupon the whole time! Look up ‘Happy Drunk’ in the
dictionary and there’ll be a picture of Mark. There’s one half way
through the rally pics so you’ll see what I mean. The back bar was busy
as ever with good sterling DJ work from Tony, Jimbo and Kitch. I
remember at one point trying to go back through though and couldn’t work
out why the door was stuck. Seems it was 3am and it’d been shut and
locked for an hour! Really? Told you it was messy. Then it moved up a
gear on the Saturday when somebody fed funny aspirins to the
Swedes! Hilarious. I’ve never seen anyone’s eyes bounce about the inside
of their skull like Rolf’s were! Plus he was the designated driver for
the next day! I think he paid one of the others to take the shift though
– about £60! Oh, by the way – Jeannie is still not for sale but thanks
for asking! Eventually the front bar shut as well around 4am I think,
but Mary’s Handbag bar opened at around the same time and although it
didn’t stock a wide variety of drinks neat Morgans will do just fine
thanks! A few attempts by the bar staff to get everyone out just
resulted in a sit-down on the floor protest, which is as effective as
handcuffs with that sticky cheesy carpet. Eventually they gave up and
sat down for a blether as well until the fire alarm going off just
before 5am ended the nights proceedings and effectively the 2006 rally
season as well. It was a series of messy good-byes to the Swedes and all
other friends and acquaintances due to the state of everyone but I can
assure you all that a great time was had and it was real nice to meet
again.
This year has been a blast….roll on 2007!
Dunf
Club scooters attending:-
Davie Russell Vespa T5 Millenium
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