Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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Now that scoff looks very nice, very nice indeed.
17th Apr 2018 11:04 am
Beretta
Member Since: 11 Oct 2012
Location: Rochdale
Posts: 1180
Amazing! Really makes me want to log off the works computer and do one!2010 Disco 4 HSE
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17th Apr 2018 11:43 am
GLYNNE
Member Since: 06 Oct 2006
Location: KENT
Posts: 4696
Feeling the same here
17th Apr 2018 5:59 pm
Hot Tub
Member Since: 15 Aug 2017
Location: Milton Keynes
Posts: 1071
It certainly makes you stop and think. Spend most of our lives working don't know what the future holds thinking more and more about doing something similar while able to.
17th Apr 2018 6:19 pm
mz mini
Member Since: 02 Jul 2014
Location: Sunny Devon
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Looks like a fantastic trip. We did a very similar route over 2 weeks but cut across the Grosglockner Pass and the Stelvio so didn't get as far as Lake Bled. We did have the benefit of going in our Porsche 911 though and weren't towing a caravan so could really make the most of the mountain roads
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17th Apr 2018 6:49 pm
Barn1e D3 Decade
Member Since: 28 Aug 2006
Location: Mid-sussex
Posts: 2021
Discovered that most trees in the woodland next to the site are these
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Any guesses? Here is another clue
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Nosh was vegi tonight with veg grilled on best camping buy of 20 years ago- a Beauclaire
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The trees by the way were cork. Some very impressive.
Tomorrow we are off to Boit and Grasse2005, TDV6 S, Auto, 190k miles, owned from new, V8 Brake Upgrade, Nancom Evo, RLD protector, BAS EGR blanking & Remap, separate ATF cooler, changing all the fluids ahead of time.
17th Apr 2018 7:08 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73131
Yep, cork trees.
17th Apr 2018 7:09 pm
Damomerlin
Member Since: 17 Dec 2017
Location: York
Posts: 106
I think we are doing Scotland this year 500 coast but looking at everyone else I would like to go to Spain and back
17th Apr 2018 7:22 pm
Barn1e D3 Decade
Member Since: 28 Aug 2006
Location: Mid-sussex
Posts: 2021
Did Scotland 500 two years ago. Excellent.2005, TDV6 S, Auto, 190k miles, owned from new, V8 Brake Upgrade, Nancom Evo, RLD protector, BAS EGR blanking & Remap, separate ATF cooler, changing all the fluids ahead of time.
18th Apr 2018 6:00 am
Hot Tub
Member Since: 15 Aug 2017
Location: Milton Keynes
Posts: 1071
What is Scotland 500? I have not heard of it before.
18th Apr 2018 6:25 am
JMack
Member Since: 02 Aug 2014
Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 1517
Scotland 500, or the Northern 500 or the Coast 500 as it can often be referred to on here, is actually the North Coast 500.
Which is basically a made up route (by marketing people) that goes up the East or West coast of northern Scotland, along the top and then back down the opposite side, basically making a circular route from and back to Inverness.
There is an 'official' website as well as un-official ones and various marketing spin-offs such as mugs, T-shirts and beer.
The route involves A roads and B roads, some of which are single track with passing places. It can be very busy during the summer, especially August.
It can easily be done in anything from a couple of days to a couple of weeks.
Some of the scenery and roads are spectacular some less so. Most would say the east coast is the less appealing.
18th Apr 2018 9:02 am
Barn1e D3 Decade
Member Since: 28 Aug 2006
Location: Mid-sussex
Posts: 2021
Started the day with English breakfast with a bit of French on side
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Then drive to Grasse - did not like it. Perhaps we missed the best bits but what we saw was streets full of men smoking and hanging about. Good that we stayed less than 30 mins so parking was free.
Came back via Valbonne. This was a lovely village, built to a grid with many narrow lanes and nice square.
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Then home via Biot which we thought would be to best part but actually that was Valbonne.
Thinking of doing Monaco tomorrow. Picked up some 2T oil for the long dash to northern Italy on Saturday.2005, TDV6 S, Auto, 190k miles, owned from new, V8 Brake Upgrade, Nancom Evo, RLD protector, BAS EGR blanking & Remap, separate ATF cooler, changing all the fluids ahead of time.
18th Apr 2018 12:52 pm
Barn1e D3 Decade
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I hear the weather is good at home. Here it is wall to wall sunshine and 22 degrees dropping st night to 14. Warm evenings for sitting outside. Picked a good time to visit I think.2005, TDV6 S, Auto, 190k miles, owned from new, V8 Brake Upgrade, Nancom Evo, RLD protector, BAS EGR blanking & Remap, separate ATF cooler, changing all the fluids ahead of time.
18th Apr 2018 6:39 pm
Barn1e D3 Decade
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19th Apr 2018 1:11 pm
Barn1e D3 Decade
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Location: Mid-sussex
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Chaos on the motorway meant we aborted Monaco and went up to the Gourdon village for lunch in an open air restaurant with best views ever down to coast. First photo shows the Gourdon village above the waterfall. Second photo from top. Worth euro19 for the plat du jour
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2005, TDV6 S, Auto, 190k miles, owned from new, V8 Brake Upgrade, Nancom Evo, RLD protector, BAS EGR blanking & Remap, separate ATF cooler, changing all the fluids ahead of time.
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