Simon and Lachlan thoroughly enjoying our 11 hour drive.
Day 12
I woke up to the sound of trucks whizzing past at 6:00am after a few very restless moments of sleep.
I needed to go to the toilet so I walked to a nearby supermarket to get water and paprika chips for breakfast. Ben, Jamie and I sat silently in the van with the door open sharing a bag of chips and staring on to the street to watch the trucks go by. It was very grim.
We finished breakfast and I drove Ben and Jamie to central station so they could get their train to Amsterdam. These New South Whales aren’t playing the festival we are doing tomorrow so they went straight to Amsterdam for a day off.
Lachlan, Shane and Simon emerging from Gun Club at 8am.
I drove to Gun Club and picked up Tom, Shane, Simon and Lachlan. They were all absolutely hammered.
We drove to a fuel station and filled up.
Simon, Lachlan and Tom got beers at 8:30am and we started what ended up being our 11 hour journey.
We stopped in at quite a few service stations along the way and got various snacks and drinks. Tom drank a warm bottle of rosè and was incredibly drunk for 99% of the journey and very, very funny to sit next to.
Some highlights of his shenanigans were falling straight out of the passengers door on to the ground of a car park and accidentally squirting a warm bottle of mustard all over his clothes and Lachlan’s bag. He also accidentally smashed Lachlan’s phone which wasn’t as funny.
He eventually fell asleep and looked disgusting.
It was incredibly hot in the van and everyone had thin layers of sweat over their bodies. A mixture of the horrendous night before and the difficult day that transpired.
The air conditioning of course didn’t work and the warning lights were all on again.
We arrived at the hotel and I checked in. No one wanted to come in to the hotel because we all looked absolutely horrible, so I checked us all in.
I was feeling awful. Driving 11 hours on less than an hour of sleep was a really terrible idea.
We got in and Shane, Simon, Lachlan and I went to the sauna and pool and had such a wonderfully relaxing time that made me feel a thousand times better.
Tom went straight to bed.
After swimming we went and showered and came down to the hotel restaurant for schnitzels. We had ice creams for dessert and Simon thought he ordered cookies and cream but it ended up definitely not being that - although I have no idea what it actually was.
Midway through the meal a massive convoy of tractors turned up which was incredibly unexpected but also very interesting. All sorts of tractors, all of various ages and styles, some very old and some very new.
Tom, Lachlan, Shane and Simon on one of many toilet breaks.