Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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Journey from hell to get to hotel in Hamburg. First 625 miles were fine, then some eejit decided to close the A7 but just let peeps find out when they got there. Took me 90 minutes to do 3kms to the Airport exit then persuade TomTom to take me the non A7 route to the Hotel.
Never has dinner been so welcome, thought I'd share it with y'all.
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Will post pics from today later but off to bed as up early to get Chunnel crossing early tomorrow evening. Then my own bed. And darkness, I have so missed darkness.
PS OK, sleep is over rated.
Today was Big Bridge Day
Bridge 1 from Sweden to Denmark, it liberated £29 from my CC act.
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Next was the Great Belt Bridge from one Danish island to the next. Only £21 was extracted from the plastic.
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Then finally the Little Belt Bridge to the mainland and, you guessed it, it was free!!
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Next bit of excitement was getting to Neumunster for diesel at 84ppl!!!! The trip was reset 890 miles ago in deepest darkest central Sweden and was confidently claiming this:
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Needless to say this was reality.
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She then had the gaul to tease me with
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And peeps wonder why we call it the lie-o-meter!!
20th Jun 2015 8:22 pm
motolite
Member Since: 18 Mar 2013
Location: Sydney
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I shouldn't have sold my shares in maccas
21st Jun 2015 3:46 am
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
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Just read this full thread from the comfort of my own duvet (and at times had to snuggle up at all the cold & windy bits).
You've saved me a fortune Del, as your trip has been so well documented I don't need to bother going, it's as if I've been there already
Enjoy the remainder ...... and safe home ...... always on the road less travelled 🚧
< ‘tis but a mere scratch …….. it’ll polish out.
21st Jun 2015 6:45 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Ron, you'd love it.
In the Chunnel terminal with the heaving throng of humanity and blagged a 2hr earlier crossing. Not much happened on the road, great driving through Germany & Holland on a Sunday. The only thing of note worth photographing is as below. Couldn't use the drive through bit for 2 reasons, I needed a wee and they have this funny thing of putting the steering wheel on the wrong side.
But I can confirm the in-shop produce were just as good, big almond biscuit, apple turnover and croissant were all sacrifice to find out.
21st Jun 2015 2:35 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Have they no standards on these trains? Stuck behind this dude in his rusty old (09 plate) Deafner. http://www.jamesjohnstone.comMaybe I should tell him that the website on his spare wheel cover doesn't work but he can still be found via Google. Ignore that, hadn't read it right. Artefact of a knackered mind.
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Plus he lets his sprogs climb on the bonnet!!
21st Jun 2015 3:33 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Back hope, most excellent road trip over. Was a great trip and now knackered and looking forward to my own bed.
Last couple of pics.
Couldn't have done it without lots of this stuff. Those two cups are going to earn a well deserved dish washering, apologies to any life forms living in them.
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And here's the old girl back to normal, apart from the fridge. Don't have the energy to take it out, that may wait til tomorrow in the rain.
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21st Jun 2015 6:22 pm
Disco dazboy
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Location: Leicestershire
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We'll all be around tomorrow night for the slide show del! you've made a lot of people very jealous with your trip! D3 x2 now gone
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21st Jun 2015 6:28 pm
tayaste
Member Since: 15 May 2013
Location: Chester
Posts: 7633
Top post
21st Jun 2015 6:30 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Will have a look back at the rubbish I've posted, forgotten most of it probably.
21st Jun 2015 6:30 pm
Iguana
Member Since: 14 Oct 2013
Location: 'Sunny' Zomerset
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it‘s a shame its all over, may very well have to start reading it again from the begining, while drinking my nice "Pocketwatch"" cabernet sauvingon
Top write-up Del, plenty of thought for next year, will certainly be contacting for thoughts and advice Iggy/Ieuan
Current LR =
2015 RR Sport Autobiography
&
1992 Land Rover Defender Camper
- Gone but not forgotten:
MY10 D4 GS
MY05 Disco 3 'S'
MY14 FL2 HSE manual in Blue
MY15 Disco 4 HSE Lux in Santorini Black
MY08 Disco 3 SE manual in Buck Blue
1960 Series 2 88" (No idea why I sold it!)
21st Jun 2015 6:39 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Iguana wrote:
You must share your ‘sim card/data‘ plans when you‘re back - your internet access seems to be excellent....expensive?
Missed this. No data was cheap as chips! Got 3 x PAYG sims for three (UK) and used their "Feel at Home" roaming, worked brilliantly in Norway and what little distance I did in Finland. I only used 2 sims so have one for another jolly planned later in the summer. Each sim was £4 (1gb/30 days) from Currys as opposed to £10 from three or £20 for 3gb/90 days.
However coverage in Sweden was rubbish, even on main roads. You'd get an island of coverage at a town and then nothing til the next one.
21st Jun 2015 6:54 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Can anyone tell me how to load vids to YouTube from ipad? Failing abysmally.
21st Jun 2015 7:04 pm
tayaste
Member Since: 15 May 2013
Location: Chester
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I've never done it, but, it looks quite easy if you have the YouTube app on your iPad ..
Download the iPad app,
Log in,
Click the three horizontal lines in the top left corner
Click 'my channel'
Next to your name on the right it says upload, click it.
Then click allow access to your video files,
I imagine at that point you should be able to upload them
21st Jun 2015 8:47 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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I can't add a channel, tried loads of times but no luck. Will try tomorrow.
21st Jun 2015 9:12 pm
Willy Eckerslike
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Thanks for the reports Del gave me something to look fwd too while offshore Club Pie n Pea
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Ents long lost Uncle
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