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Pork, Strudel & Cheese With Holes - a road trip :-)

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Re: Pork, Strudel & Cheese With Holes - a road trip :-)

Post by Bing » Sun Jun 28, 2015 10:44 pm

Well, Wee Bing and I are home safe, and I think PVR must be back home by now too. What a great experience. Today was a long one though, 1,000km+ in a day, starting at 0845 and getting home at 2145 roughly (plus the one hour time difference). 1,596 miles in total, 24.9mpg over the trip, and the roof was down the whole way back today :driving:

Couple of shots, then I'm done - Mr Bed is calling :zzzz:


Somewhere on the way out of Switzerland :

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Somewhere in France

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Definitely Calais, finally :

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Picked up a few flies on the way back. This is going to take some cleaning :cry:

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I have to say, the Europeans know how to do roads - billiard table flat, even in the high passes, and so quiet... The M20 was horrible when we got off the train :x


Though in fairness, on the way up the final road home this was the view, so it wasn't so bad to be back :wink:

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I am going to have porker ass burned into my retinas for weeks though :lol:

Hopefully Jax, Zermatt and Tom will continue to post as they're still travelling, currently in Modena. Once I get the photos off my camera and recover more from Wee Bing I will post more. For now however, thanks for reading, and good night :thumbsup:
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Re: Pork, Strudel & Cheese With Holes - a road trip :-)

Post by Grumpyowl » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:14 pm

Goodnight, :cry:
Your going to bed before cleaning the car :x
Looks like a it was a great trip :thumbsup:

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Post by srhutch » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:34 pm

Welcome home, now get the write up done :poke:
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Post by PerryGunn » Mon Jun 29, 2015 6:16 am

srhutch wrote:Welcome home, now get the write up done :poke:
yeah, but we'll let you take your iPad outside so you can muti-task and clean your car at the same time :lol:
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Post by ZermattV » Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:26 am

So we are all garaged up in a blazing hot Modena this morning having arrived at about 18:00 last night we had a Tom said a day of two halves a fantastic morning on the wide passes out of Switzerland close to St. Moritz and then after hugging briefly the top of Lake Como we headed for the Passo San Marco which id read about in Car over the winter as they had used it to take a P1 to Modena to meet up with a LaFerrari , the article said it had been a challenge. Tom led today and was doing a very good job of rev matching the 997 through the bends. how they got a P1 up the pass is beyond me.

They are not kidding very tight in places but as you gain height to 2000m the views of the Bergamo Alps were outstanding . after a quick ice cream and a very excitable italian who wanted his photo taken with the cars we headed for San Pellegrino Terme for some Lunch and of course a glass of the local water .

From San Pelegrino to Modena its a pretty uninteresting haul on the Autostrada to Modena - where around Bresica where we saw some pretty poor examples of aggressive driving .


all this was forgotten when we made it to the Hotel around 18:00 - Hotel pool had a sunday night band playing so we celebrated the most southerly point and a day off driving the following day with a few beers and a late meal in the centre of Modena. looking up at the pink plasterwork of the buildings that you always see in the backdrops of Ferrari test drives .


Today the two ferrari Museums in Modena and Maranello.

We are however missing our southern Buddies who came along for the first half and they put in a monster drive yesterday - see you next time Guys :thumbsup: .

My only regret ... not doing this trip or a similar one in the Zed.
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Post by pvr » Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:29 am

Back here as well, such a great trip and a very nice group of people to travel with as well.

During the trip yesterday, we got stopped at the Swiss border who decided to call "someone" providing our number plates. They described us as "Two fast English cars" which I thought was a little strange as I only had Bing behind me :evil: . It seems that we at least had not been flashed by a mobile unit anywhere and were not on the wanted list.

The nice French people on the other side notified us that there was a mobile trap on the toll route - and we poodled by that perfectly within the limit of course :whistle: . Thanks unknown French heros 8)

On the first morning of the trip, Bing abused my parents hospitality :D

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Very early start to go to Stuttgart after a great stop over in Baden Baden, where Bing pulled big time in the local supermarket. It was really touching to see that relation develop during those 5 minutes :lol:

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Proper parking spaces at the hotel at least ...

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At the end of the trip, I also picked up a few flies ...

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I won't rob any of the other guys pictures but there are some stunning ones from the epic passes run.
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Re: Pork, Strudel & Cheese With Holes - a road trip :-)

Post by PerryGunn » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:40 am

pvr wrote:....Bing pulled big time in the local supermarket. It was really touching to see that relation develop during those 5 minutes :lol:
Bing's had lots of 5-minute relationships that started in supermarkets... usually with bags of doughnuts... :wink:
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Post by Bing » Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:02 pm

This time it was a German taxi driver - though he looked like he'd had quite a few donuts :D
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Post by srhutch » Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:17 pm

Bing wrote:This time it was a German taxi driver - though he looked like he'd had quite a few donuts :D
didn't know you were that way inclined Allan :lol:
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Post by Bing » Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:21 pm

I'm not - he forced himself upon me :cry:
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Post by PerryGunn » Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:33 pm

Bing wrote:I'm not - he forced himself upon me :cry:
Probably wanted to take you to one of those German doughnut-themed nightclubs where the girls really know how to help you live out your food fantasies...

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Post by RickRob » Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:30 pm

Judging by the fronts of their cars I think that we should all thank Bing and PVR for eradicating any threat of malaria in Europe! :D

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Re: Pork, Strudel & Cheese With Holes - a road trip :-)

Post by Bing » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:27 pm

PerryGunn wrote:
Bing wrote:I'm not - he forced himself upon me :cry:
Probably wanted to take you to one of those German doughnut-themed nightclubs where the girls really know how to help you live out your food fantasies...

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Post by buzyg » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:29 pm

Some nice fly swatting there guys. :)

She has nice teeth by the way. :thumbsup:
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Post by original guvnor » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:38 pm

Bing wrote:
PerryGunn wrote:
Bing wrote:I'm not - he forced himself upon me :cry:
Probably wanted to take you to one of those German doughnut-themed nightclubs where the girls really know how to help you live out your food fantasies...

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I think they call it the Dark Web Bing!

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