The Elefant - souvenir shopping, finding other Brits, enthusing about how friendly everyone else, it got to -11 °C last night and eating bratwurst - my favourite. At last, I'm enjoying myself. Pascal has found some Spaniards and is trying to get details about the Penguin rally, the Spanish equivalent of the Elefantentreffen.

Pascal has bought some French cheese and sausage all the way to Germany with him - what does he think this, the middle of nowhere? I've been looking for the mob from the UK I was hoping to meet up with - they're flying a Welsh flag somewhere.

Mad Max? (800x449, 150KB) - 31 January 2004	Sea of tents... (800x449, 136KB) - 31 January 2004	Hog Roast (800x499, 175KB) - 31 January 2004
View from tent (523x800, 160KB) - 31 January 2004	Mad bike... (516x800, 154KB) - 31 January 2004	Main drag (800x449, 174KB) - 31 January 2004
Camp view (800x510, 184KB) - 31 January 2004	Militaria (800x449, 182KB) - 31 January 2004	Parked and secure (800x542, 130KB) - 31 January 2004
More Militaria (800x449, 147KB) - 31 January 2004	Carefully parked (800x591, 165KB) - 31 January 2004	Panorama (800x449, 155KB) - 31 January 2004
Bike park (566x800, 198KB) - 31 January 2004	Dniepr (800x449, 157KB) - 31 January 2004	Down the valley... (800x449, 165KB) - 31 January 2004

Lots of people are leaving. It seems they come a few days earlier and leave at the weekend. Pascal spends even more time on his bike and new plugs seem to have fixed the majority of his problems. My GPS was playing up - the pins supplying power thru' the Touratech mount somehow bent and I was left on battery power. The "Rolling Anarchy" Hell's Angels from Minsk were fun: their old military bikes were complete with machine guns!

Rolling Anarchy (527x800, 169KB) - 25 February 2004

Machine Gun (800x491, 173KB) - 31 January 2004

Sunset view (526x800, 168KB) - 31 January 2004

I find some Brits flying a St. George flag (this creates a lot of comment - it seem very few people know what it is) and they point me to the Welsh lot. But I can't find 'em. It seems some Scotsmen in kilts nicked their flag. Boo. And that's a very dodgy looking tartan, guys.

Calling home... (800x524, 159KB) - 31 January 2004	Blue Elephant (531x800, 172KB) - 31 January 2004	Warm Dog (800x527, 185KB) - 31 January 2004
German bike (800x529, 172KB) - 31 January 2004	Looking at Bikes (800x525, 189KB) - 31 January 2004	Lupomobile (800x527, 173KB) - 31 January 2004
Pascal's bike. (534x800, 182KB) - 31 January 2004	Plastic windscreen (800x560, 190KB) - 13 March 2004	St. George (800x524, 185KB) - 31 January 2004
Teepee story... (800x526, 174KB) - 31 January 2004	Wackelstein (528x800, 166KB) - 31 January 2004	Wolf (800x530, 178KB) - 31 January 2004