SICK GIRL

The wrong way round agina will this is the scraching and thinck lot as it was not till them much they down load the problem and sent it to m.a.n in germany soon have to call on monday to see if they can say whats up i now and they now but the BIG computor dus not now .

Had to take the girl to the shop had a problem with with ECU and some more computor bits .plus the door lock on the drivers door did not unlock

Two weeks in Holland

OK left off sate on my ass having a day off did sweet f..all it was great will did have a Little hangover .will Sunday got here to soon and it was work day it was a pices of cake as it was loading bay what went wright on to the stage so had it all in and dusted by 3pm .the arena was a good one as it had a bar just for the crew and sky sports so ha dthe six nation on but was told not to be so loud but the Italy's where plying dirty so that was Sunday .Monday was load in fcp(that's all the stuff kiddy's like ) we got that dun by 3pm .The boss call Robbie and told us we had to help move a ice show what was coming in to the port of Kiel Germany from Vilnius Latvia and take it to Odenes in Denmark so over their Monday night boat due in at midday Tuesday . so it was food beer and bed time till then .
TUESDAY was waiting for the boat it was in on time but had to wait for trls to come off got then at 1.30pm so on we went but i only got to the boarder drop mine and went back to get anther one but this time all the way to Odensa this time drop had a shower as my show was due to load out on Wednesday night and to get as far South as poss .got back to the Germany /Denmark border went to bed as out off time .
will up but had to wait for one driver LEON he was coming with me back to groningen. as Robbie was all ready back there to start the load out but Leon was due a couple off days off so he came back and move one trl to the next city we had a hand with all of them as we had to load in on Thursday at 10am .time we got yo groningen Robbie had but 3 trl's left to load.loaded them and got on on the move to DEN HAAG what is NR Rotterdam .back to bed till morning .
DEN HAAG is a piece of cake as will as they have 4 loading bays wright on to the stage again so yet again all dune by i think it was about 3pm but had to load fcp in the next day that was Friday the show open on time .will i had to go to the office but that was only 30mms down the road .IT was the first time i had been there since i think 16 Oct 08 side hi got my Xmas box bit late put it was great thing had the old girl washed at the mer dealership what a shit was had to do most off it myself .
then back to the arena till load out on Sunday .
will the Friday was my birthday and went out with some of the crew for dinner and it was a great meal and time and unbetold to me they had agreed that they will pay for my dinner and drinks .For 8 off usit came to 460€'s shit loads of money but it was good grub and great time i had as will .so if your ready this guys MANY THANKS for a great birthday and at my old time you young ones here comes Sunday again time to work load out was good as the show Had only to showing the last was finished by 3pm told load out was only 2hrs yes all 7trls dun and dusted and fcp as will .
the boss came and give us ahand to move them to the next place ARNHEM as load in was for Tuesday at 10am so took two trl over and got back and the day was over .
monday over to Arnhem and back two times and Monday was over .Robbie had to go some where Else to get the ground support tlr as we where doing our own ground support as the arena cound not take the wight off the show hanging from the roof so we have a trl with us for grounding the show. Will that was Arnhem till Wednesday afternoon as the show was over by 3pm again .I like the early load outs .will that's it all on the move again to where we are now in einhoven till Sunday where yet again we have a 3pm show finsh .but we got some work to do then as we are on our way to the uk for 6 weeks 9 city's so at the mo i am sate in the truck doing this blog update .some of the trl have a boat on Monday from Ijmuiden nr Amsterdam to Newcastle's upon tyne and the rest and Robbie and me on Tuesday as the first show is in sunder land load in is for Thursday next week .will that's all now hope to do it all again soon ..thanks for ready

picy time

on top of the arena in oporto i went up on top two times as i forgot my camrer the first time and i DONT like hights and here is me thinking no way

the guys we use to help move the tlrs .left to right norbie/stip/kampie and ben (taxi)

this one is in sofia bulgaria at the arena just part of the fleet

.this one is of the arena in budapest there are 21trls (1 on each end you can not see)back stage the blue is of the ice rink wall. it comes down after the ice is set .

PART 3

Will we got in to Ancona had no problems with customs and site sail for the Netherlands .the rout we took was strait up the A14 passed Rimini/bologna then turn north at modena for Verona the weather in Italy was good only about +8/10c so not so bad as Athens was in 16/20c .but after Verona it was strait North up to the Brenner then Innsbruck .But the weather was cold up there -6 with snow about but the roads where OK so just pushed on before we new it we where in to Germany: the guys what now me now i don't like Germany: but ha ho we where in there for the hole way north but first we had to get the road tax toll collect .You put in where you enter Germany and where you wish to leave it some times it tills you one rout and you like to take a different then it becomes a pain in the ass but ha ho.So we put it to a point NR kassel on the A7.The rout was from the Innsbruck to munchen by the A12/A8 around munchen heading for nurnberg/wurzburg going north on the A7 for kassel. But that's all for Thursday as it was time for dinner and sleep : will sleep over and it,s time to get back to work so off we went on our way .the weather was the same as yesterday snowing and about +1/5 will we had a very good run up till kassel stop for a break sorted the toll collect out the way we wished to go as it was the way we where going was shorter then the toll collect said so that made it cheaper as well .The rout from kassele took us over the A44to the A33 NR paderborn up to Osnabruck :the tomtom said it was motorway all the way there but they have not finished the A33 so on to smaller roads luckily the snow was on the sides but it was cold -2 to +1 back on the motorway just south of Osnabruck on to the A30 and just before the A31 there a autohof (truck stop)and it was good meal there and clean and hot showers the town was call Alzbergen and the autohof was just 1.5ks of the motorway and parking for about they say 150trucks but i think best to park on the ends of the lines as its a bit on the tight side getting out that was the only lste down .will time for sleep again over ..driving for the day was 8.45hrs and 700ks not bad in Germany and the weather ..Friday was a walk in the park as only had 220KS to go to groningen Holland so the A31 to the A280 to the frontier where it comes the A7 and then strait in to the arena got here in the afternoon waiter for a bit for the Heisterkamp boys to get here so sorted some power out as we have e 220vote hook ups on the trucks just to run the computer and lights in here o yer the microwave/Coffey maker as will.w2hent in to town last night and had 1 or was it 10 southern comfort as my divorce papers come in so now i am DIVORCED a new chapter has open in my life girlfriend is VERY Happy and so am i .will Saturday is a day off R&R.The arena is next to a vw dealer and the very nice man in the cleaning bay made us a Coffey and let us use the bathroom over there as the arena was shut up till we load in on Sunday at 9.30hrs so i think that's it up to date now so its time for some sleep as got work to do in the morning ......

PART 2

the photos are of patars problem was hoping to put them at the bottom but not work out all this stuff yet the building is where they all sleep and just some off the guys waiting to get in the trls somme how there was a lot more on monday like 500 or more in the town

Ok then i left off when i was to fly on sunday 8th to athens it went bitter then i was thinking as there was a lot of snow on the ground and the airport was shut on 3morings off the week but all was ok at luton. when i got there it was only 20mms late takeing off .so 3.5hrs later we where in athens .Now ! I have been all over the place with taking taxis but this one took the the top spot .first he did not now where the arena was and then ask a copper and you get it he did not now where it was and i give them the adderss .So out came the map and i show him where to go and its his town and it was my first time over there .Will the show had finshed and the loading was under way was told had to go to patra that night with the first trl as i had to more to do by tuesday as i was getting the boat then.. so got my shit in the truck and in the hour was on my way with stip in he,s one as he had to come back and get one more as will but he was gitting the boat on monday night so up we whent and back agine .so robby stay and finshed the load out and was leaveing for patar in the morning as he had to pay all the port taxs .so that was sunday .
monday mid day we where on our way with 2 more trls got to patar amd the place was fall of guys and girls trying to get in to the trls i have not seen it that bad ever so think its bad at calais thats a walk in the park .did take one or two photos hope to put then on here but will see .that drop and back to athens with robby for the larst two . tuesday just drive to patar got on the boat at 14.15hrs and thta was it for 22hrs .

this tour

will so far so good .this tour started on the on the 01/09/08 in las palmas then it whent to canary Islands /malage /sevilla/palma-mallorca where my mate did that as i had to stay in the uk as was in the middel of a divorce that will be finished soon .then i came on board in murcia from there we went to bilbao/barcelona/salamanca all in spain then we jump over to Italy milan/turin/rome then over to oporto in portugal then back to spain with logrono/madrid for xmas where i whent home on the 23rd till the 28th where i got a flight to budapest in hungary tohelp take a ice show to stockholm sweden where got to go home for the new year will close flight on the 31st got home by 1530hrs had a bit of sleep then saw the new year in .But then all to short back to work on the 6th jan .So back to madrid to move the show to valladolid for 3 days then on the move to malta got a boat from barcelona to Italy nr rome where we got off on tuesday at 15.30hrs and du to leave opn wednesday at 01.30hrs but the weather was very bad down nr sicllia so had to wait till saturday night for a boat as for the weather had a smoth sailing to malta got off the boat on monday morning had to move the trls to the arena so had a couple of trips to do but as it was only 30mms there and 30mmns back it did not take long so all dune by midday .Load in was for the morning so had nothing to do now .will load out was on the sunday and thats was a pices of cake as all the trl where inside. monday was just to take them back to the boat back to Italy will sicllia where me a robby got off and drove to Bare to drop the two we had the bobtail to nr rome to get two more we took them to Acorna where we got the boat to Greece .where we did it all agine but for one .This is where Stip came over to help with the load in as i was going home where i am in till Sunday where i fly back to athens for the move to Groninggen in the Netherlands but will post about that move when i get there .so caio for now

mine and my mates truck the company has 6 M A N and 5 MEC in this paint scheme

here we go agin just trying to get to terms with this so trying to put some photos on here

haveing a rest

Hi to all this is my first time at bloging .i am a europian trucker on show work all over europe at the moment we are in athens greece on tour with a live show for disney thats means on a stage .we have one live show and 3 ice shows going on in europe at the moment .but at this time its my time to be home for a couple of days due to fly back to athens on sunday then we are on the move to holland will post more later on