11th June 2005 - T-minus 24 hours + planned route for 1st week
We finally decided upon the camping kit that we needed to purchase, and that we did, along with a load of canned food and utensils that we proceeded to buy that evening.
During the day, we set the task of cleaning up Nav's car and getting it ready for packing tomorrow (Sunday). One of the items we purchased was a power inverter (which changes the cigarette lighter into a 3-pin plug socket). I had bought one a while back, but I think that we managed to burn it out (smoke emanated from the device) - this new one is much better. Part of the plan was to somehow incorporated the invertors in Nav's car, which ended up in us (or really, Nav himself) partly destroying his car and taking parts out.
We blew a number of fuses but finally managed to get it sorted. We now had a 150W-rated 3-pin power supply in the car, running off the car battery. Let's hope we don't drain it down to nothing and be left stranded...
Food shopping was the next priority, we us buying a load of canned food, vegetables, utensils and a coolbox. Round England with a Coolbox – sounds good to me. Nav wanted a cucumber, but there weren't any left - I did, however, see an Asda worker walking around with one, which I suspect she was doing to taunt us.
We made the decision that we would leave Winchester, Romsey and Southampton for the return visit to Hampshire, as getting out of the local area was deemed a must. The final night of sleeping in solid shelter was drawing upon us.
The planned route can be found at (copy and paste):
planned route for week 1
-- steven
During the day, we set the task of cleaning up Nav's car and getting it ready for packing tomorrow (Sunday). One of the items we purchased was a power inverter (which changes the cigarette lighter into a 3-pin plug socket). I had bought one a while back, but I think that we managed to burn it out (smoke emanated from the device) - this new one is much better. Part of the plan was to somehow incorporated the invertors in Nav's car, which ended up in us (or really, Nav himself) partly destroying his car and taking parts out.
We blew a number of fuses but finally managed to get it sorted. We now had a 150W-rated 3-pin power supply in the car, running off the car battery. Let's hope we don't drain it down to nothing and be left stranded...
Food shopping was the next priority, we us buying a load of canned food, vegetables, utensils and a coolbox. Round England with a Coolbox – sounds good to me. Nav wanted a cucumber, but there weren't any left - I did, however, see an Asda worker walking around with one, which I suspect she was doing to taunt us.
We made the decision that we would leave Winchester, Romsey and Southampton for the return visit to Hampshire, as getting out of the local area was deemed a must. The final night of sleeping in solid shelter was drawing upon us.
The planned route can be found at (copy and paste):
planned route for week 1
-- steven
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