Dave & Andy's Excellent Adventure

[chaseracer]

On Sunday afternoon, FPB7 paid a visit to Chaseracer Towers.  Neither of us was especially busy work-wise this week, so talk turned to the idea of a day trip to Calais. 

 

 

Ah, Dover.  Tuesday, awaiting the 1200 DFDS sailing to Dunkirk.  This was a good start but, as you see, the plan had changed already.  From Dunkirk, we struck out across Europe in the faithful Blingo and before we knew it were in Belgium.  This was evidenced by the abrupt change in the quality* of the road surface, which now resembled something from a war zone.  Or Staffordshire.

 

Antwerp was reached by around 5pm.  Superb forward planning.  Every car in Belgium appeared to converge on the orbital motorway which, naturally, had roadworks and lane closures at various strategic points clearly designed for maximum impact and inconvenience.  A satnag-led attempt at a detour proved abortive but did at least lead to cheap refuelling in an anonymous suburb.

 

Dispatching Eindhoven and Venlo with barely a glance, we were across the German border and into the industrialised megalopolis of the Ruhr valley.  Duisburg and Essen flashed past in the dark before we turned north toward Munster and Osnabruck.  The three of us were properly in the groove now, so we pressed on to Bremen hoping to find rooms at the Ibis near the airport.

 

Er, no.  Full.  And it was now 11pm.  The satnag suggested a couple of alternatives but one no longer existed and the other was way out of our price range.  We decided to get back on the A1/E47 autobahn and try for a motel at a rasthof.  The one we looked at near Hamburg - complete with protective fence - put us straight off that idea and we finally pulled into a rest area 40km short of Lubeck to kip down in the car.

 

More to follow...

[hairnet]

^taps foot

[Fabergé Greggs]

I really hope this involves a purchase

[beko1987]

Have isis got you?

[chaseracer]

TEMP SITREP: Safe. No R20 activity observed. Out.

[andy18s]

Popping in for a brew Dave?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Kindly get TF on with it, les mecs.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I am assuming that the plan is to buy something Soviet-era that has been converted to run on fermented camel dung and is located in Azerbaijan.

[egg]

Well there was that Sierra base I spotted in​ Crimea the other day...

[andy18s]

Aha!

[Inspector Morose]

Destination reached.

 

[Fabergé Greggs]

Destination reached.

 

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YASS! Is that the Volvo museum in Gothenburg? 

 

I've been there!

[Inspector Morose]

Yup. Chatted to one of the staff about a new acquisition into the collection. namely this:

 

 

ten minutes later we were met by the director of the museum who came down to find us for a chat as he didn't believe to people came from England just to see the museum. Turns out he was in put charge of Volvo bus parts in Rugby after they took over Leyland bus in '86 and lived in Stratford upon Avon for a number of years. Top bloke.

 

 

I may post some more pics up in a while but the internet's a bit meh.

[Inspector Morose]

Should be links to some pics on my Facebook thingy.

 

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1122498071230053&id=100004096118872

 

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1122513371228523&id=100004096118872

[chaseracer]

Home.  2119.6 miles since 0630 Tuesday.  Top work, Blingo.

[Inspector Morose]

Things are never what they seem in Sweden......

 

 

[Inspector Morose]

Might be of mild interest.

 

[Lacquer Peel]

Is the 99 (edit: 900) a 9000 development mule?

[chaseracer]

I really hope this involves a purchase

 

It may yet...... 

[chaseracer]

Is the 99 a 9000 development mule?

 

Winner.

[Inspector Morose]

To summarise. We crossed this:

 

 

To go to this:

 

 

To see some of these:

 

 

And let David play on this:

 

 

And see some of these:

 

 

To be continued...

[Inspector Morose]

The next day, after spending a night here:

 

and seeing this in the car park:

 

We passed this:

 

To go to this:

 

Inside, there were these:

 

which cheered me up quite a bit. After this, we crossed this again:

 

And came home via this:

 

The end.

[eddyramrod]

Totally excellent, dudes!

[chaseracer]

To summarise...

 

Couldn't have put it better myself!!

 

[Pillock]

I really hope this involves a purchase

 

This.

 

Of that Bacon Spread stuff you showed me the picture of.

 

For me.

[Inspector Morose]

The bacon spread was very nice.

[Pillock]

You ate all my bacon spread?

 

FFS.

 

*goes to find passport*

[wuvvum]

I now want a Volvo 263.

[Felly Magic]

That 263 is hawt, and so is that 900 estate

[Inspector Morose]

Morning after coffee brought to you by.....