Originally Posted by
langleybaston
The Pigs bar must have been in existence when I was at EDUO each side of 1970 but alas I missed its delights. I took my Wobbly elsewhere.
Gutersloh seems to be very well represented in these anecdotes, over-represented in comparison with the clutch stations.
In my last incarnation in Germany I had to visit Gutersloh from JHQ several times a year: always a pleasure to arrive, but it became increasingly difficult to plan the drive to arrive at a scheduled time. How do you deal with a journey that [from memory] was not much over 2 hours, and last time took 5 hours, meaning all sorts of appointments were missed in playing catchup?
"Fly" I hear, but that involved going "the wrong way" to Bruggen.
We had the same time problem on 431 M.U during those many happy commutes to Gut ....travel time was
about 3 hrs from Bruggen, "slightly less" cough ! from Gut, but this was usually" extended slightly " going to Gut when we were forced, must have been a magnetic field, to stop at Recklinghausen Restplaz.
The most memorable being our trip to Gut when our fearless leader and inspirational manager of men, "Budgie " left, erm, some time after us and, amazingly, arrived some time before us. He was at a complete loss as to how and why this had occurred.