Back and married
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Hi all, just a quick note to say I'm back in the land of online drivers and still in one piece. Oh yeah, and happily married too 
The Chim performed flawlessly in over 3000 miles of (mainly motorway, unfortunately) driving including French autoroutes and N roads, dull Swiss motorways and tunnels and sweeping Italian autostradas and coast roads.
Highlights (apart from the wedding, but hey, this isn't a wedding related website, so I won't bore you) included
- enjoying empty roads pretty much everywhere apart from Switzerland
- the Amalfi coast road in Italy (right hand corners were pretty scary as I could see nothing apart from a cliff)
- the Italian autostrada out of Switzerland with its fast, sweeping bends through the mountains
- Monte Carlo, including free VIP entry into the Monaco Top Marques car show (sitting in Zondas, Ferraris, Lambourghinis and a Tuscan Mk 2)
- Driving through the countryside near Rheims
- Driving through Tuscany, on some fantastic roads in a proper car that wasn't some crappy hire car number
Low-lights where the new suspension settling and giving me a 2" ride height which made some car-parks interesting and the MIL light coming on. The car's going back to Austec to address both of those ASAP. Both should be a simple fix. I hope.
Don't ask me how much it cost in terms of petrol and tolls, it was definitely worth it and I'd do it all again. Driving on some of those roads, with the looks on the Itialian/French people's faces was fantastic. One guy on a bike in France was even asking me what it was, and getting me to leave rubber as I pulled away. Well, it would be selfish not to, wouldn't it?
I'll write up a full report at some point, with a few piccies and a vid of the Amalfi coast road.
Saying all of that, its good to be back.
Rob
The Chim performed flawlessly in over 3000 miles of (mainly motorway, unfortunately) driving including French autoroutes and N roads, dull Swiss motorways and tunnels and sweeping Italian autostradas and coast roads.
Highlights (apart from the wedding, but hey, this isn't a wedding related website, so I won't bore you) included
- enjoying empty roads pretty much everywhere apart from Switzerland
- the Amalfi coast road in Italy (right hand corners were pretty scary as I could see nothing apart from a cliff)
- the Italian autostrada out of Switzerland with its fast, sweeping bends through the mountains
- Monte Carlo, including free VIP entry into the Monaco Top Marques car show (sitting in Zondas, Ferraris, Lambourghinis and a Tuscan Mk 2)
- Driving through the countryside near Rheims
- Driving through Tuscany, on some fantastic roads in a proper car that wasn't some crappy hire car number
Low-lights where the new suspension settling and giving me a 2" ride height which made some car-parks interesting and the MIL light coming on. The car's going back to Austec to address both of those ASAP. Both should be a simple fix. I hope.
Don't ask me how much it cost in terms of petrol and tolls, it was definitely worth it and I'd do it all again. Driving on some of those roads, with the looks on the Itialian/French people's faces was fantastic. One guy on a bike in France was even asking me what it was, and getting me to leave rubber as I pulled away. Well, it would be selfish not to, wouldn't it?
I'll write up a full report at some point, with a few piccies and a vid of the Amalfi coast road.
Saying all of that, its good to be back.
Rob
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