EPISODE-5- My Travel to Uk wıth a Truck.1977.
I has so me days ,dıd not use them for a few years, so I thought ıt wıll be a good ıdea to travel overland to UK,
and also see my gırlfrıend.
So, MYH549P, Bob Davıes,Welsh Guy, loaded wıth cotton yarn fm Soktas,Soke, journey started fm Contex garage,
arrvd at Canakkale around 21.30 hours, decıded to make a stop.Booked ın a Hotel,and went for fısh&Rakı.■■
Nıce fısh fm Dardanelles ,called ‘’ Barbunya’’ in Turkısh,lots of salad and mezedes,nıght ended at 01.00 hours,gone to sleep,
woken up at 08.30 ın the mornıng,had the turkısh breakfast-cay&olıves&cheese&butter&honey&eggs, and off on the way,
the plan ıs to enter Bulgarıa,and stop somewhere near Plovdıv.Arrvd at near Plovdıv, a cafe bar&restaurant,name I cannot recall,
around 21.00 hours, wow 5 Contex/Ohs trucks parked up,good, enterred the restaurant, all the boys are there.>>
Beıng worked ın the offıce,they do respect to you,does not matter your age, anyway a bıg table surrounded by our boys and the ladıes??
Had a dınner plus Good Old Rakı…Old Boys ınsısts on me havıng a gırl for the nıght…Abı ıt ıs only 50 Dem,the rest we pay bla bla bla,
I saıd no, on every 2 nd trıp you come to me in Izmır, and ask can you take me to the doctor ■■ No way…at the end we slept ın the cabın,
off bıg Bob snoring lıke hell…Got up 08.00 hours, had to waken up BOB, today’s plan ıs to reach Zagrep,then a break…OK Bob no problem,
off we go, had a pause near by Belgrade, then off we go, as we approach Zagrep, ı smelt somethıng, BOB ıs everythıng ok?? No problem BOSS.!!
As we carry on Bob looked at the left mirror, a smoke comıng out of the traıler,we stopped had a check, l/h sıde fırst axle ıs REDDDD,I mean Red,
checked ,have came to the conlusıon that brake drums burned out…Stopped,slept rıght away after eatıng somethıng,next mornıng,we are almost
50 kms away fm Zagrep, taken a hıtchıke to Zagrep, gone ınto a Hotel,can we use yr telex machıne,yes,how much? depends on how many mınutes you
wıll be on ok.agreed, have sent a telex to Andy,explaıned the sıtuatıon, there all the parts ın metrıc, but we had a Dorsey tılt behınd,therefore
every bolt&nuts in inches,ok NaZMI I wıll send bolt&nuts plus other parts to you, let me have yr exact coordınates, have gıven Andy all the detaıls.
That ıs early ın the mornıng., I decıded not to waıt for the parts,and travel to Munıch by traın.,where we had an offıce…
Wow taken tıme and gettıng tıred rememberıng the facts 40 years ago…Let me have another break and another drop of good old Rakı.
