Briskoda Scottish Region Camping Trip idea

[Skodaboy1983]

Cracking pics Mike, I had a fantastic time on the camping trip, the drives were ace and even through we were lost some of the cars on the Sunday drive Hannah stil managed to find a wee B road for people to enjoy on the way to Jedburgh, and yes I picked up a nail in my tyre, so had to get that patched!

I will post some of my pics up later tonight when I nip to my parents to upload them.

I'm feeling quite rough at the moment, my insides feel like shutting down already!

Cheers

[sms]

them pictures are great... told swmbo we should have gone!!

[KenONeill]

Sorry I couldn't make it at all in the end, but I did get up the Titan Crane in Clydebank (Open Fri thro Mon from now until October if anyone else is interested in that sort of thing), and to catch up properly with several other groups of friends.

[Mike Wrightson]

Video of the weekend

YouTube - Brisky Scottish Camping 09

[Skodaboy1983]

Cheers Mike,

I will have a gander later as I'm at work at the moment.

[nokiauk]

Great vid Mike, did you manage to capture that woman in the ditch after all?

[nokiauk]

Some of my pics:

On arrival, the early birds already had their tents up:

Didn't take us latecomers long though:

Mike's picture above shows the gazebo on return from the drive but this was the state early on the Saturday morning:

A few from the drive:

A tight squeeze:

As per Mike's pic we boxed in a Porsche 911:

The resurrected gazebo that would not die:

Edited 7 August, 2009 by nokiauk

[nokiauk]

Once back on site it was down to some much needed food and drink (mainly drink):

Skodagirl being our chef for the evening:

The hardcore drinkers headed for the bar:

The back to the half collapsed gazebo for a few late drinks:

Alas poor melon I knew him well: (can't remember the appearance of the melon and it didn't survive the night :confused: )

The drive on the Sunday didn't quite go to plan, partly my fault for going the wrong way (too much drink the night before ) so not many pictures but after a detour and some new arrangements the Scottish contingent managed to meet up again for a quick last photoshoot:

Hope everyone enjoyed themselves, was an excellent weekend.

Looking forward to the next one now

Edited 7 August, 2009 by nokiauk

[Skodaboy1983]

Cracking pics there Stuart, I really should have set up the camping photos thread last night but I was so tired and sore from the weekend that I never got a chance.

[Mike Wrightson]

Great vid Mike, did you manage to capture that woman in the ditch after all?

She was just out of the camera angle sadly :(

[alex27]

Hi to all who attended still a bit rough right now.Hope i didn't offend anyone on the Saturday as i don't remember much after the bar.the pics from the drive look amazing just a shame i got lost lol.As for the melon the guy i share digs with doesn't know how it got there either one of life's mysteries i guess.Anyway i had a blast and hope there's another one soon.

[Skodaboy1983]

Evening everyone,

Here are some of my pics from the weekend.

Cheers

Davy

The famous Briskoda gazebo

At the Gray mare's Tail

The Moffat Woolen Mill car park

[Skodaboy1983]

We then Moved on to the A701 heading out of Moffat

We then arrived back to find this!!!

Some people tried to fix it while some went out to get the food as hanibal would say "I love it when a plan comes together"

And it's up!!

Some night time action!!

[Skodaboy1983]

Then some pics on the way back to Edinburgh.

Then when I got home I had to do this mod to my car!!

I picked up a nail in the tyre and had to get it fixed so was about £16 lighter by the end of Sunday.

Thanks for looking at my pics.

Davy

[nokiauk]

Liking the pics Davy, no more jack incidents I trust? That tool looks handy for wheel changing

[Skodaboy1983]

No I jacked the car up and gave myself sore knuckes in the process.

Davy

[sharkrider]

Video of the weekend

YouTube - Brisky Scottish Camping 09

like the soundtrack, peatbog fairies,

"scotland rocks" lol...

[skodagirl1985]

Liking the pics Davy, no more jack incidents I trust? That tool looks handy for wheel changing

And I observed to see where the proper jacking points are just incase i need jack car up when out myself if need be. But i prob won't and would just call the breakdown service but useful to know.

[sharkrider]

ok, lets try some pics, I'll try to leave out the ones seen before! lol...

Hannah turning the tables on Davey for the last Scottish camping meet

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some pictures from the pub on the first night.....

Chris and Mike....

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Mike Hannah and davey....

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[MudPuppy]

Great pics everyone

I'll sort mine out shortly

[Captain Scarlet]

Looks like Celebrity Masterchef.....

Skodagirl being our chef for the evening:

Looked a great time out guys, wish I could have made it..........dam work.

[MudPuppy]

Well it's taken me most of the evening to upload my pics, Photobucket's been astoundingly slow today!

Part one: Road trip pictures

And one from the drive back towards Edinburgh (after we eventually managed to meet up again)

Oh, and apologies to Chris for probably getting you a bit lost on the way out of Galashiels!!

[MudPuppy]

Part 2 - Campsite pictures!

Broskodians on the edge!

A few from the bar:

The barbecue (big thanks to Hannah for doing all the cooking)

and 2 from the seemingly immortal gazebo

[MudPuppy]

Part 3: Repairing a gazebo: Briskoda style

I never saw the state of the gazebo til I looked at the above pictures today ... anyway, while some people went off into town to get tea, those that stayed behind got into repairing what was left of it:

Some of the uprights broke. We were able to fix them by fashioning new parts out of locally sourced timber ....

.... and a good few miles of masking tape

while Dave supervised the operation

Good as new!

Part 4 - Surreal melon-related incident

No-one knew the exact origin of the melon, except that it was discovered in Alex's Felicia on Saturday morning ....

“The Broskodians in the gazebo looked from Davy to melon, and from melon to Davy, and from Davy to melon again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Cheers!

[Skodaboy1983]

Cracking pics everyone, I look so drunk in some of these pics and for once I can't remember much what happended, I can't think how that melon smashed!