Event Bulgaria Fest - Task complete

[dollywobbler]

£7 car hire … we need pics of said hire car.

It may actually be a £14 hire car. It's du here in about half an hour.

[catsinthewelder]

Slow start today, as Ian said we were very kindly shown the sights of Bucharest last night before getting very lost on the way back.

 

Late Sofia update

 

UAZ sightseeing tour in Sofia

 

Lots of roadworks in Sofia as they can't be done in winter.

 

A Lada in plain sight, the older ones were proving hard to photograph.

 

 

Pony

 

 

Kombi

 

 

Ian, Vladimir and some sort of hearse

 

 

Niva

 

 

 

More police by the government building

 

 

 

Hopefully our landlord will arrive soon with his spare car. It is an aging Logan on LPG. I had to remove the shower door seal to open the door this morning so god knows what our 70le hire car will be like.

[Yoss]

Seems to be going every bit as well* as we all expected. Still jealous.

[johngarty]

TBH the place looks fantastic, cultured (architecturally) with a down to earthness minus the tourist hordes (except 2 brit hippies of course).

[vaughant]

Good effort and chodspeed.

 

I took a job with a company in 2015 under the guise of working in Burghas, inbetween golden sands and sunny beach. Looked a really lovely place and the lads who went out there said the food and hospitality were spot on.

 

It was working on the ill fated southern gas pipeline from Azerbaijan.

 

I ended up in Angola instead and the lads only got about 3 months out there before the project got canned again.

 

Pity as it wasn't a bad number really, a lot better than all the other wank jobs I ended up doing with them.

 

I looked into buying a car to drive about out there, I seem to recall a few MK2 Sierras but in three door guise? Seemed to be about 1600 Lev? Must have been three of the same car but in different colours so I'm assuming they were popular at one point. I also considered buying then driving home as the company I worked for managed to get the lads home for something like £37 each but it meant 6 flight changes and something like 17 hrs to get back to blighty.

 

Gives you a bit of a clue as to the quality*of their HR staff !!!!

 

Best of luck and I'm sure you won't come home empty handed. I'd have loved to have gone myself but my other half would have certainly left me!!!!

[Mrs6C]

Don't forget to snap any Oltcits you might see!

[TataBobu]

Those are long gone, I'm afraid. The last one I've seen turning a wheel was more than an year ago.

[dollywobbler]

Don't forget to snap any Oltcits you might see!

We did see one as we came into Bucharest! We weren't able to get a photo sadly.

[dollywobbler]

We are currently in the village where the car is, but we're an hour early, and can't get hold of the seller. We're getting started at a lot by the locals though. Long hair not something they apparently encounter on men.

 

Crap data, so pics will have to wait.

[red5]

If anyone feels like driving me a 3dr mk2 sierra back I'll send some monies. Now. . Or a Escort.

 

Top work gents

[Rod/b]

Ask them what year it is and whether the war is over...

[stripped fred]

I watched 'banged up abroad' last night. Take care out there and have your bribes ready...

[vulgalour]

Silver hearse is a bit unusual since American based stuff of that age is normally 4 door rather than 2 door.  Looks like it's probably a Lincoln Towncar from the early 2000s.

[egg]

It has gone a bit quiet. Hope they haven't been kidnapped with cries of 'this is a local car for local people'

[MiniMort]

It has gone a bit quiet. Hope they haven't been kidnapped with cries of 'this is a local car for local people'

Well I was wondering...

Now we wait for a Romanian police report of two bearded gentlemen in a knackered Dacia estate...

[trigger]

I've just seen the latest video, very exciting!

[egg]

Yep, go and watch YouTube!

[dollywobbler]

We need to drive. We got kidnapped by lovely Romanians who forced us to eat lovely food.

[cms206]

Sexual.

 

You may now be my favourite beardy people out of all the beardy people.

 

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[vulgalour]

What a superb looking thing.  Careful though, Rich seems excited enough to steal it when you're not looking.

[Isaac Hunt]

60k Kilo Meeetres, Dash looks a bit ropey around the instrument binnacle, could it be the only one of the three of you who has had a recent haircut ?

 

GLWTJ

[MiniMort]

Nice set of wheels! Best of luck driving it back to the UK. Also, what a nice Logan!

[TataBobu]

Nice one! Looks fit to transport you back to Cymru.

[hairnet]

Enjoy the trip back

 

Both mental. rich gets it more cos salop

[Timewaster]

Amazing how many bits I recognise from my dad's 1972 R12 which meet its maker a good 5 years before yours was stamped out.

[quicksilver]

That looks a fine piece of Franco-Romanian chod. Are those reversing/numberplate lights off the Renault 5 as they look familiar?

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Can't wait to watch the video later!!

 

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[catsinthewelder]

 

It got us back to Bucharest

 

Another cracking day out here. Claudiu and has family were lovely and invited us to stay for traditional Romanian food. We have invited them to stay if they ever come to the UK. I drove the Logan back with Ian following in the 1310. Both behaved well, the 1310 is a little too easy to put in reverse while the Logan shows progress of sorts by being a swine to get into reverse if you are in a hurry.

 

Great day

[dollywobbler]

60k Kilo Meeetres, Dash looks a bit ropey around the instrument binnacle, could it be the only one of the three of you who has had a recent haircut ?

 

GLWTJ

Ha! It has had the Speedo bulbs replaced. The binnacle moved when I press the mileage button...

[dollywobbler]

That looks a fine piece of Franco-Romanian chod. Are those reversing/numberplate lights off the Renault 5 as they look familiar?

Yes.