Home2Rome 2007: Day 1, Calais to Montelimar | |
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Since we've got back, Ive had a lot of people ask me about the rally, so Ive decided to answer all the questions in one go: "because", "a very long way", "yes", "lots of petrol", "france, italy, austria, germany, belgium, i think", "about 13minutes, but it was wet". Now thats all cleared up, a little background on the rally... |
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After driving south for about 600miles, we ended up in Montelimar, which seemed to be one of those crappy towns you get because you can only have *so* much motorway without having a crappy town next to it. By the time we got there, Sharkey had managed to blow a 50p size hole in the exhaust and sounded rather rude, the grumpy woman at the campsite complained that it was far too loud and was disturbing everyone. My bad, I guess 9.45 is way to late to be driving round crappy french towns looking for food! Other than the starter and the exhaust noise, the 6 was performing really nicely. |
Home2Rome 2007: Day 2, Montelimar to Menton | |
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The second day was when the driving got interesting, the plan was to do about 100miles through the wiggly back roads of the Rhone Alps, along the Gorges du Verdon, to Menton on the south coast of France. The day didnt start off too well, as Sharkey was as grumpy as we were to get up at 7am after driving for 12hours the day before. We were stuck in first for most of the way to the start, then it went into second with a bang and the auto box warning light came on. Luckily it reset after we turned the engine off and we had all gears again, although being stuck in second wouldnt have been a killer for the day, as it would happily do 80 in second, and at one point on the italian motorway Dean downshifted into second to make it round some bends. |
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