Another solo trip into Europe.
Discussion
Time for another one of these.
Same car as last year, I really must get rid of this old snotter!
And the same guitar setup:
This little Tele is really easy to drag around Europe, it's light and very quite when I'm playing in hotel rooms. Inside the headphones it sounds like Angus Young at Wembley but the guitar itself just makes a pitiful plinking noise!
At a hotel in Folkestone now, leaving on an early crossing. Staying near Strassburg the first couple of nights then pushing into Germany.
Got some very nice hotels in picturesque places lined up.
Will try to document anything interesting and spot any worthy machinery.
If it gets too boring tell me to shut up.
Same car as last year, I really must get rid of this old snotter!
And the same guitar setup:
This little Tele is really easy to drag around Europe, it's light and very quite when I'm playing in hotel rooms. Inside the headphones it sounds like Angus Young at Wembley but the guitar itself just makes a pitiful plinking noise!
At a hotel in Folkestone now, leaving on an early crossing. Staying near Strassburg the first couple of nights then pushing into Germany.
Got some very nice hotels in picturesque places lined up.
Will try to document anything interesting and spot any worthy machinery.
If it gets too boring tell me to shut up.
AndrewEH1 said:
e12mat said:
Brad,
Just read 2013 and 2015 start to finish. . . . . . . . One word, fantastic
Sorry to bring it up but the service station bin and the 9% vol Heineken stand in were hilarious!
Links? Just read 2013 and 2015 start to finish. . . . . . . . One word, fantastic
Sorry to bring it up but the service station bin and the 9% vol Heineken stand in were hilarious!
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
On Eurotunnel now, got a longish drive down to the first stop at Phalsbourg where I've got a Blue Elephant bookmarked. Get the car washed then about another half hour onto the hotel.
Saw this beauty in the car park this morning:
Used to own one of them so always love seeing them out and about.
Difficult to see from this angle but it looks like it's riding high, is this a thing people do with 928's now or am I mistaken?
Impasse said:
Swampy1982 said:
Somethings not quite right with your paint work... looks like runny wax.... 
Hats off to all the detailers out there, it's way harder than it looks to do it properly.
br d said:
Difficult to see from this angle but it looks like it's riding high, is this a thing people do with 928's now or am I mistaken?
The same happened to me, when I changed the original 40 year old springs from my 1800S Volvo a couple of years ago.I changed the old ones with OEM new ones and installed Bilstein gas dampers. Now the cars is way to high for my liking, but didn't get to change the springs yet...
Springs tend to settle down up to 2" over the time... If you change your old springs for factory new ones, thats what will happen. If you ad sporty gas dampers, this will raise your car again up to an other inch.
Got a very early train over yesterday.
Bloke on the train said excitedly "Is that an MP4!"
I said no its a 650S, he said - much less ecxitedly - "Oh, it's still alright though".
Long drive down, there were lots of Road works which is unusual for French toll roads. Took 5 and a half hours to reach the Blue Elephant at Phalsbourg. I was knackered by then but didn't fancy getting back on the Motorway so I found a route through the Vosges du Nord Natural Park, taking the D178 and then the D135 to Winger sur Moder.
These roads are why I love to drive in France. Belting through forests and rolling fields with long uninterrupted straights, sweeping bends and a few very tight hairpins with big unprotected drops! The sun blazing down and there's nothing else about.
This car accelerates so rapidly that you can have immense fun while only endangering yourself.
I have the phone mounted on a spiderpodium on the dash for the satnav and the camera points through the windscreen so at one point I did a bit of filming. Playing it back the car sounds glorious, I didn't really think about it at the time but I'm proper banging it down through the gears to get maximum power all the time. I won't be posting it up!
You back off for a few picturesque villages then there was a very fast stretch of really quite road where I struck lucky (not sure where I was at this point, still in the park somewhere).
I came up to a set of lights leaving a village and was behind a big sport bike. He clocked me and was nodding his head and then took off like a bat out of hell! He knew the roads well and was absolutely hammering it, I just had to trust him and hang on. This car will keep up with big bikes and corner better so he couldn't lose me but f
k it was hairy. A couple of times he got a hundred yards on me because I just lost my bottle.
We only passed one car coming the other way (which he slowed right down for) and we had to overtake a couple of dawdlers. And he wasn't waiting for me, as soon as he overtook he was away and I had to chase hard.
I suppose either one of us could have ended up in a tree but christ it was fun! He turned off with a wave eventually and I let my heart rate slow down.
Need to spread the posts.
Bloke on the train said excitedly "Is that an MP4!"
I said no its a 650S, he said - much less ecxitedly - "Oh, it's still alright though".
Long drive down, there were lots of Road works which is unusual for French toll roads. Took 5 and a half hours to reach the Blue Elephant at Phalsbourg. I was knackered by then but didn't fancy getting back on the Motorway so I found a route through the Vosges du Nord Natural Park, taking the D178 and then the D135 to Winger sur Moder.
These roads are why I love to drive in France. Belting through forests and rolling fields with long uninterrupted straights, sweeping bends and a few very tight hairpins with big unprotected drops! The sun blazing down and there's nothing else about.
This car accelerates so rapidly that you can have immense fun while only endangering yourself.
I have the phone mounted on a spiderpodium on the dash for the satnav and the camera points through the windscreen so at one point I did a bit of filming. Playing it back the car sounds glorious, I didn't really think about it at the time but I'm proper banging it down through the gears to get maximum power all the time. I won't be posting it up!
You back off for a few picturesque villages then there was a very fast stretch of really quite road where I struck lucky (not sure where I was at this point, still in the park somewhere).
I came up to a set of lights leaving a village and was behind a big sport bike. He clocked me and was nodding his head and then took off like a bat out of hell! He knew the roads well and was absolutely hammering it, I just had to trust him and hang on. This car will keep up with big bikes and corner better so he couldn't lose me but f
k it was hairy. A couple of times he got a hundred yards on me because I just lost my bottle. We only passed one car coming the other way (which he slowed right down for) and we had to overtake a couple of dawdlers. And he wasn't waiting for me, as soon as he overtook he was away and I had to chase hard.
I suppose either one of us could have ended up in a tree but christ it was fun! He turned off with a wave eventually and I let my heart rate slow down.
Need to spread the posts.
Arrived at the first hotel near the German/French border and was frankly disappointed, it lovely and all that with a spa and a pool but they were less than honest about secure parking. It was basically just spaces painted on the pavement outside. I was booked here for 2 nights but decided to leave on the first morning, just wasn't my cup of tea.
I like a nice hotel but this place was a bit weird, look at the bath next to the bed:
And the toilet only had 2 little tile lights:
The camera actually lightened it, it was fking black in there! It might be very fashionable but I don't really want to take a st in the dark.
I checked out early in the morning and when I started loading the car a young boy and his mum got out of a car nearby (he was asleep! God knows how long they'd been there) and he said "I'm a Supercar spotter and I saw you arrive yesterday and wanted to film you driving off"!
His mum was very nice and said he was a bit obsessed and hoped I didn't mind. He asked if he could post it up, so that's on twitter or something.
I drove to Baden-Baden, which is a brilliant place if you are ever touring down here, and booked a room at The Brenners Park,a really nice hotel.
Went for a spin around the area and visited some gardens and when I came back this beauty was behind me:
And what's this all about? Had them on both front arches:
In the town I saw a Roller (I think) on Dubai plates with a nasty dig!
Then I headed for the hotel.
I like a nice hotel but this place was a bit weird, look at the bath next to the bed:
And the toilet only had 2 little tile lights:
The camera actually lightened it, it was f
king black in there! It might be very fashionable but I don't really want to take a st in the dark. I checked out early in the morning and when I started loading the car a young boy and his mum got out of a car nearby (he was asleep! God knows how long they'd been there) and he said "I'm a Supercar spotter and I saw you arrive yesterday and wanted to film you driving off"!
His mum was very nice and said he was a bit obsessed and hoped I didn't mind. He asked if he could post it up, so that's on twitter or something.
I drove to Baden-Baden, which is a brilliant place if you are ever touring down here, and booked a room at The Brenners Park,a really nice hotel.
Went for a spin around the area and visited some gardens and when I came back this beauty was behind me:
And what's this all about? Had them on both front arches:
In the town I saw a Roller (I think) on Dubai plates with a nasty dig!
Then I headed for the hotel.
This hotel is a proper gaff!
I really can't recommend it highly enough if your down here. I've stayed in Baden-Baden a couple of times but didn't know this place, it's fantastic.
This is a proper bathroom!
There are more towels than you could shake your Dad at and nothing is too much trouble for the staff.
The Valet asked if I could park my own car as he wasn't sure of it, which was honest of him, the car park is underground and huge, a few things in there:
You're guess is as good as mine, all these people must have flown somewhere cold for the summer.
A nice Landy:
And a bit of German metal obviously:
The gym and pool in this place is fabulous:
That's only half of it, I felt a bit stupid taking pictures.
The pool is huge, you go upstairs and there is a monitor on the desk, I could see that there was no one in there, great I thought, all to myself.
You enter through some big soundproofed doors and I looked down to the other end which is a huge glass wall with a couple of high doors opening onto a small patio, I could see there wasn't anybody down there.
I jumped in and swam about a bit and noticed the reverb. It sits in a very high marbled room and every little noise echoes. I started slapping the water first, then moved on to making some of those noises you make in your throat that can't be spelled.
I'm going "Hwue Hwue Hwue" and "Ipp Ipp Ipp" really hitting the p's.
Even a bit of barking "Rhuf Rhuf Rhuf". It made a fantastic sound bouncing off all the surfaces.
I was looking nervously over my shoulder during this to make sure nobody was coming up those stairs.
Then I got out of the pool at the other end and realised that there is a green beyond the patio, just out of view from the pool where about 12 Germans were laying on sun loungers.
I got some very odd looks.
I'm now in the very posh hotel bar drinking brandies in a shirt that badly needs ironing. This is bothering me less as I drink more.
I really can't recommend it highly enough if your down here. I've stayed in Baden-Baden a couple of times but didn't know this place, it's fantastic.
This is a proper bathroom!
There are more towels than you could shake your Dad at and nothing is too much trouble for the staff.
The Valet asked if I could park my own car as he wasn't sure of it, which was honest of him, the car park is underground and huge, a few things in there:
You're guess is as good as mine, all these people must have flown somewhere cold for the summer.
A nice Landy:
And a bit of German metal obviously:
The gym and pool in this place is fabulous:
That's only half of it, I felt a bit stupid taking pictures.
The pool is huge, you go upstairs and there is a monitor on the desk, I could see that there was no one in there, great I thought, all to myself.
You enter through some big soundproofed doors and I looked down to the other end which is a huge glass wall with a couple of high doors opening onto a small patio, I could see there wasn't anybody down there.
I jumped in and swam about a bit and noticed the reverb. It sits in a very high marbled room and every little noise echoes. I started slapping the water first, then moved on to making some of those noises you make in your throat that can't be spelled.
I'm going "Hwue Hwue Hwue" and "Ipp Ipp Ipp" really hitting the p's.
Even a bit of barking "Rhuf Rhuf Rhuf". It made a fantastic sound bouncing off all the surfaces.
I was looking nervously over my shoulder during this to make sure nobody was coming up those stairs.
Then I got out of the pool at the other end and realised that there is a green beyond the patio, just out of view from the pool where about 12 Germans were laying on sun loungers.
I got some very odd looks.
I'm now in the very posh hotel bar drinking brandies in a shirt that badly needs ironing. This is bothering me less as I drink more.
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