Event Summary
29th July
Jazzy and Saj arrive at Dohees place around 9:30pm. No one has turned up. So it begins.
The rest arrive over the next hour. After the bickering, complaining (apart from Jazzy) and
general disorganisation (as is customary) we head off around 11pm.
Nothing can go wrong now.
12am Shafs exploded the tyre on his car driving along the M4. Claims it is an accident.
Shaz calls AA, they arrive promptly.
Saj declares that if we have to go back to HW, he won't come back. He has important matters
that he needs to attend to (yeah right).
AA man takes the limp mobile to the nearest emergency tyre replacement guy (who knew they
existed eh). Along the way Shafs gleans information about some amazing caves and waterfalls
from the AA guy who used to do mountain rescue in a former career.
30th July
Finally arrive at Brecon car park around 4:30am.
Decide to read Fajir, everything is fine now. Shafs leads. "Allau Akbar". Midgets attack. Felt like
the longest 2 rakahs in the world. Finish salah, midges have also finished their meals.
Leg it from the carpark, midges pursue but due to having stuffed their faces they can't keep up haha
Get to camp site around 6am.
It is empty. Hoooray.
Start setting up camp.
Shafs gives orders, people ignore him.
Eventually some semblance of order exists.
Tents go up, wood is gathered.
Tixy is in charge of the fire (here we go again). He declares it must be done the "right" way. So we wait for the candle flame
to get bigger as the twigs feed the fire.
Eventually it gets going. The main thing is that it is a "natural" fire I suppose.
Ruck sacks are put in a pile. A Tarp sheet is hung over the top. Food is separated.
Some muppets (definantely not Jazzy and Shaz) decide the meat bags needs to be soaked in the water to keep is cool.
Saj wonder where his meat is. Someone (not Jazzy) mentions in might be in the water. Saj flips.
Shaz gets the meat from the water. The bag is full of water. Oops. This point is quickly glossed over.
Rifty gets out his sausage.............bag :|
Everyone loves those sausages (especially Shaz). This is some gormet sheeeee.
Need more wood for the fire Tixy proclaims *sigh*.
Onto the river water logged beef patties.
They taste better infused with light brown river water (Jazzy and Shaz breath a sigh of relief quietly).
Shaz takes off his jacket. Not sure what happened to him, he just vanishes at this point, weird.
Food is over, no need for Asif to stay awake anymore. He goes to sleep around 9am.
We sit around the fire and make it bigger for no reason really. After a while we also go to sleep around 11am.
Pics or it didn't happen
Brecon 2016 Photos
Cars
Audi A6
Shafiq
BMW 5 series
Jazzy
Tents
3-man
Wifty
3-man
Shafters
3-man
Feisty
Individual:
Big rucksack (at least 65 litres)
Boots
Torch
Sleeping bag/Ground mat
Towel
Cutlery/Plate/bowl/Mug
1 small bottle of water for trekking
Cuddly teddy
Around 30 Squids to sort out the costs on the weekend!
Food
BBQ:
Grills
atiq
6 bags of coal
Skewers/thongs(:-))/matches/BBQ fluid
atiq
Meat:
All marinated and kept in freezer overnight
3 kg Kebab mince
saggy
1 kg Chicken chunks (for kebab skewers)
atiq
1 kg Lamb Chops
atiq
? kg Chicken wings
? kg Boneless chicken fillet leg/breast
24 chops + 1 chickens
wifty
Veg for skewers:
Baby tomatoes (4 packs) -
Jazzy
Mushrooms (4 packs) -
Jazzy
Onions (1 small bag) -
Jazzy
Peppers (3 packs) -
Jazzy
Other:
Pitta bread (6x6 pack) -
Jazzy
Burger buns (6x6 pack)
Jazzy
Burger cheese (real cheddar)
Jazzy
Corn on the cob/butter (10 pieces) -
Jazzy
Humous (2 tubs) -
Jazzy
Olive Oil (small bottle) -
Jazzy
Breakfast:
Cereal (1 Large box of crunchy nut)
shafiq
Cereal (1 large box of Fruit & Fibre)
shafiq
Milk (10x1L)
shafiq
Drinks:
Coke/fizzy (10x2L)
shafiq
Water (10x2L)
shafiq
Teabags/milk/sugar
shafiq
Kettle for the tea
shafiq
Miscellaneous
Bin liners
shafiq
Matches
shafiq
Parrafin cubes
shafiq
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