Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts

Friday, 11 February 2011

Arctic 4x4 - The calm before the storm

We arrived in sweden on a plane that had been delayed by a massive snowstorm which had passed over southern Sweden earlier in teh day.  Stockholm is gridlocked in a way we normally are after 1" of snow.  Here however it is about half  a meter!

We have registered and things look ok.  Scrutineering was pretty lax and having a car and being able to find the registration point seemed to be all you needed.  Our car really is the baby with the others seeming to be proper big, high offroaders so I think we will have our work cut out having any success.



We've had one problem already - how do you put stickers on a car when it is cold windy and snowy?  Answer.... cruise around until you find an open warehouse, drive in and do it in the warm!
This one is broken already, but it doesn't seem to be phasing the team from Sweden
Tomorrow is a 900km drive north so we should be pretty tired by the end of that.  follow us in lots of ways including:

and on Redshift radio http://www.redshiftradio.co.uk/ at 7.30pm each day

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Snowball Progress

We are making good progress towards our target of raising £500 for the Up and Under Foundation.  We were helped considerably by generous donations from businesses on the High Growth Programme run by Winning Pitch for NWDA. 

Snowballs bound for the Arctic
Details of our journey can be found here. We leave for the start line in Stockholm on 11th Feb.  We will activate the tracking on the 12th.  Details will be available on this site.  If you want to donate on line www.justgiving.com/upandunderfoundation