Posted in on Apr 30th, 2011 No Comments »
We got some supplies at a local grocery and found a tire shop to remove the securiy lugs on the wheels. The lad at the shop wasn’t too happy about it at first but I think he relented just to get us out of his parking lot. Then to the Dover ferry by 1000. About [...]
Posted in on Apr 28th, 2011 No Comments »
at a B&B just above the Priory Station. The car did fine, we did fine. John only scared the crap out of me 3 times and I only screamed twice but really close on the third. It’s 291 miles from Torquay to Dover and the ride was beautiful. A nice clear ,sunny day until a [...]
Posted in on Apr 27th, 2011 No Comments »
Up at 6:30. On the bus to Gatwick at 8:00. On another bus to Heathrow at 8:45. Meet John at Heathrow at 11:00. On train to London at 12:00. On train to Paignton at 13:06. Arrive Paignton at 16:45. So far so good. End of the good luck! Well, not really. ASfter a look around [...]
Posted in on Apr 26th, 2011 No Comments »
You can always tell when it’s NOT summer international travel season: flights leave on time and even, occasionally, arrive early. My flight to Gatwick was just that. It left on time and arrived early. However, Gatwick is still one of the worst international airports. I’ve never been here when there wasn’t construction; when there wasn’t [...]
Posted in on Apr 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Dave Clemo Clement, the rally organizer who purchased our car for us, finally sent a picture of the Mondeo: He said that they had prepared it a bit for us. I guess so. Here we are, a couple of “colonials”, in what is primarily a British event, driving a car with a picture of the [...]
Posted in on Apr 12th, 2011 No Comments »
So just what is a banger rally? Well, first, it’s not a race. Second, you have to really stretch the definition of the word rally to fit this. Third, it was thought up by some beer drinking Brits. That should explain everything. Seriously, though, it’s a road trip made up of a group of cars [...]
Posted in on Apr 11th, 2011 No Comments »
I started looking around for something else to do and what should appear but a “banger” rally that starts in London and ends a couple of weeks later in Bishtek, Kazakhstan. It’s officially called the London Tashkent Rally. While I was investigating the possibility of this mad little venture, John Alkima, whom I had met [...]
