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93sqnpic914a.jpg, 98995 bytes Video showing CS-02 a clip from Chris Stone's film taken during a 93 Sqn detachment to Sylt when a road trip to Oslo took place - 27Mar59.   Chris Stone, Jeremy Hall, Gordon Talbot and Mick Ryan left RAF Sylt at 12.30 hrs on Thursday 26Mar59 in Mick Ryan's blue Volkswagen Beetle.   We were off the Niebull ramp which connects the Island of Sylt to the mainland by 14.20 hrs and were across the border into Denmark by 14.55 hrs.   We passed through Haderslev at 15.40.   By 16.25 we had crossed the Middlefart Bridge on to the first island, Funen, on the way to Copenhagen.   We caught a 17.50 hrs ferry from Knudshoven to Hasslov across the Great Belt where there is a road bridge today.   It cost £3 2s. (At Nov2013 prices=£63.75) for the car and three passengers return.   We were on the road again by 18.45 hrs and arrived in the centre of Copenhagen at 21.45 hrs.   We stayed in the Axelborg Hotel and a room cost us £1 3s 6d (At Nov2013 prices=£24.16 ) each for one night.   We left Copenhagen at 09.20 hrs Friday morning 27Mar59 after taking the shot of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen's Harbour that opens the video clip.   We arrived at Helsingør by 1000 hrs where we caught a car ferry to Helsingborg in Sweden across the Øresund Strait which cost £1 14s. 9d. (At Nov2013 prices=£35.73) for all of us and the car.   In the video there is next a shot of Jeremy Hall and Gordon Talbot taking photos on this ferry.   There are then shots of the ferry bow wave and the arrival in Helsingborg which we left at 1055 hrs.   The next shot is of traffic on the road.   We stopped just before 1 o'clock for lunch at Falkenberg and were on the road again by 20 past 2.   In the video we pass a sign in Gothenburg for Oslo at 15.50 hrs.
It was at Gothenburg the decision was taken.   Gordon and Chris were asleep in the back when Jeremy persuaded Mick to not turn right for Stockholm but to continue north for Oslo.   We were some way up the road to Oslo before the two in the back woke up and realised they were not going to Stockholm - they were NOT pleased!   By 18.45 hrs we were crossing the border into Norway at Svindsund.   here we picked up three young ladies and took them to their village at Ås by 20.45 hrs where we stayed the night in a village hotel.   Mick was tucked up in bed early but I'm not sure what the other three got up to?!   We were on the road at 9 o'clock the next morning and arrived in Oslo by 09.30 hrs.   The final video shots are taken along this coast route.   Oslo was wet and miserable so we set off south after lunch at 13.40 hrs.   We crossed back into Sweden at 15.40 hrs and reached Gothenburg by 5 past 7 Sat evening.   We left Gothenburg at 13.45 on Sunday 29Mar59 and were at the ferry at Helsingborg by 18.30 hrs.   We left the Helsingør ferry terminal at 19.30 hrs and arrived in Copenhagen by 20.30.   We stayed at the Kong Frederick Hotel which cost us each 16s 5d (At Nov2013 prices= £16.88.).   Monday morning 30Mar59 we left Copenhagen at 10.25 hrs, arriving at the ferry terminal at Halsskov at 5 to midday.   We were straight on to the ferry and leaving Knudshoved terminal on the other side by just after 1 o'clock.   We crossed the Middlefart Bridge at just after 14.00 hrs and were across the border into Germany by 16.00.   We left Niebull on the car train that ferried us back to Sylt at 17.45 and were back in the Officers' Mess at Sylt by just after 1900 hrs - a round trip of 2,037 Km / 1,265 miles.

There is no sound with this clip.   This clip runs for 1 min 58 secs.

(Thanks to Chris Stone for original film.)
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