By Dan
This is the team at Trabant Trek Head Quarters, known locally as TTHQ – a secret underground bunker based in a hollowed out oak tree somewhere outside Budapest.
We're here at the invitation of the delightful Angyal sisters, Zoe and Melody, who unwittingly opened the door to Carlos more than a month ago, and have played host to a Trabbi invasion ever since.
The five assembled trekkers, myself, Carlos, Megan, Tony and Zsofi, are following a strict work regime – emailing, researching, eating, doing sit-ups, screaming and drinking.
Boys are stationed downstairs in the dungeon, an unfinished apartment with the grimy ambience of a squat party. We sleep on mattresses pushed together on the floor between various articles of upended furniture.
The ladies are nesting in the loft, normally used as a storeroom, they've bedded down among dusty vases, broken teles and old rollerblades.
From our luxurious base we're plotting global dominance, assembling troops and contacts ahead of our departure – currently scheduled for July 17. Or 18. Or 19.
Nobody's really sure, but we need to be back in Budapest for a launch party on the 26th.
Do you need any sense of organisation to travel the world?
I'll let you know.
Reinforcements in the form of the two Johns should be arriving later this week.
ends
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