“NOW that looks fun,” was my response to receiving a newspaper cutting from a chum, extolling the virtues of driving 10,000km around the Baltic Sea with the Superlative Adventure Club. The SAC is a German-based club that organises a number of rallies each year, usually with a few quirks such as the vehicle must be 20 years or older, no motorways, no GPS… you get the picture.
With zero hesitation I rose to the inadvertent challenge set by my mate, Lt Col Chris Sargent, whom I have known since I was eight-years old, confident that we could put up with each other in the same vehicle driving ten countries in 16 days without leaving one another at the side of the road. We paid our €1000 entry fee and registered for the Baltic Sea Circle: Winter Edition. Inevitably it was delayed a year because of the obvious, which was no bad thing as it gave me more time to find
