Holiday Inn – Wrotham
After two years in the offing we’re finally off. It’s been a long day so far though. Brooklands at 9.30am. Westminster at 5.00pm then on to Wrotham for the start of the all night section Kent Cup’. We’ve been briefed, debriefed, signed on signed in downloaded, uploaded and so on. It still feels like a phoney war but we do know that there’s a battle coming.
Tonight there is a lengthy trek through the dark, wet and tight woods with ‘proper’ timing and navigation required. It’s nothing like what we’re going to so will be something nice to look back on in a couple of weeks when we’re up to our axles in sand. The Westminster start was really impressive, marshalls on the bridge, House of Lords car park and lasagne in the Red Lion. Flagging off at 7.01pm went like clockwork and we all regrouped at Wrotham. So far so good although I won’t see a bed until Beaune tomorrow evening by which time we’ll have also taken in ‘the Somme’ test.
Gerard Brown 