All packed for Chimay

For those that haven't been before here's a map from hotel to track
avoiding the roads they usually close.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=112886812888405683016.00046e9f34ea1ad025c92

 

"A good plan executed today is better than the best plan executed
tomorrow."

 

There's also the 40-70 doctrine: when you have between 40% and 70% of
the information, make a decision. Less than 40 and you don't know
what you're dealing with; more than 70 means waiting too long.

 

that's a thing I enjoyed about working with the military in combat
environments: people would and did make decisions. exhilarating.

 

Very useful, thanks.

 

You can get in from the west as well, as long as you avoid the circuit
itself:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&s...50.058957,4.294453&spn=0.021711,0.063601&z=14

That roundabout at the south-west corner of the circuit /might/ be
restricted; I can't remember. Easily avoided by taking the earlier turn
off Rue de Plate Pierre, then following your nose into the centre.

 

Oh dear. They're now in agreement:

http://uk.weather.com/weather/10day-Charleroi-BEXX0006

Friday: Heavy rain
Saturday: Light rain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/2169

Friday: Heavy rain shower
Saturday: Light rain shower

 

This is possibly slightly quicker, almost impossible to **** up and
worked well last year:

http://tinyurl.com/coquellestochimay

 

Don't panic, metcheck still looks slightly more optimistic:
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/europe_forecast_7days.asp?locationID=1388

I'm not sure where how they calculate their rain totals, mind. Adding up
Saturday's rainfall from that page gives 0.69mm, but the detailed
forecast for Saturday has 9.3mm between 02:00 and 05:00 alone. Nice.

 

Yeah that looks even easier. nice one.

 

that's pretty much what I had in mind.

3 hours in the fucking rain ;-)

 

This weekend, I will be mostly wearing a Goretex jacket, Goretex
trousers, Goretex gloves, Sheltex boots and Sealskinz socks.

**** you, mother nature!

 

It's rained heavily on the vast majority of the TOG Tours I've been on,
but I can't ever remember seeing a thread beforehand of so much "I'm
not going if it's raining" whingeing. And I do realise that camping is
a whole different kettle of haddock!

If it's still pissing down when you get there, just hole up in a bar
and get pissed. What's the problem?

 

I've had worse. Much worse. They're a bunch of whinging girls blouses.

 

Well, exactly. It can occasionally be a bit damp getting *to* the beer
tent, but as far as I know it's never rained *inside* it.

 

Don't take any notice of any of them, they're just guessing. Even the
might of the F1 weather circus couldn't get it right at the weekend, &
they were only trying to forecast a few hours in advance. The forecasts
here have been completely wrong pretty much since the 'heatwave'
finished.

 

it's the camping bit that's the problem. Plus, if it's pishing down,
the "watching racing" bit will also be shit, because I'm fucked if I'm
standing around in the rain to watch bikes go around and around.

nothing, if you're prepared to kid yourself that pitching a tent in
the pissing rain is "fun".

 

I've been in a beer tent with a leaky roof before, so take a hat or an
umbrella.

 

IME so long as the floodwater isn't so high you can't even get to a beer
tent, there's no problem:

http://www.pre.org/album/Festivals/2005-Glastonbury/slides/IMGP0074.html

Though it helps to go prepared:

http://www.pre.org/album/Festivals/2005-Glastonbury/slides/IMGP0045.html

 

http://www.pre.org/album/Festivals/2005-Glastonbury/slides/IMGP0045.html

heh. So what's required is a sidecar that can double up as a canoe
when required.