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Old 3rd September 2017, 02:41 PM
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Back to Grey Britain. The joys. On a more positive note saw this rather rare Citroen DS Break Familiale Luxe/Safari on the outskirts of Paris on Friday. How lovely.
Wow. That's a rarity!

You missed all the nice British weather. It's been warm and sunny here for the past month or so. First day of rain in ages ...

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Old 3rd September 2017, 02:46 PM
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Wow. That's a rarity!

You missed all the nice British weather. It's been warm and sunny here for the past month or so. First day of rain in ages ...

Ha. What a shame we missed the British summer. Damn!
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Glad to see you back safe and sound.
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Glad to see you back safe and sound.
Cheers Ray. Was quite the adventure for the kids, Galicia, Spain via Dordogne, France and back.

All the best to you and Gwen.
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I'm quite jealous
I really miss all the lovely drives I used to do.
At the time it was just part of the job.
I went virtually everywhere, all over UK, and Europe from Sweden down to Portugal and eastwards to the Polish border with East Germany and Yugoslavia, down Italy as far as the Sorrento Peninsular.
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I'm quite jealous
I really miss all the lovely drives I used to do.
At the time it was just part of the job.
I went virtually everywhere, all over UK, and Europe from Sweden down to Portugal and eastwards to the Polish border with East Germany and Yugoslavia, down Italy as far as the Sorrento Peninsular.
I always wanted to be a commercial driver Ray, I envy your experience of Europe. I’ve driven around Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy....

I used to love the idea of being on the continent far from home, but now with two little kids, and a wife,... I’D LOVE TO BE MILES FROM HOME.



Have you been along the coast in northern Spain? The scenery is something else. The viaducts are frequent and staggering, especially for me as I’m quite scared of heights.

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Old 5th September 2017, 09:39 PM
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I stayed for two weeks once in a little village just outside Vittoria. It was with a choir from Wrexham College and there were other choirs from all over Europe including five or six from Eastern Block countries. We were supposed to ferry them about whilst they went all over on day trips singing but the Spanish organisers had laid on local vehicles so we stayed with the police men on security duties and got rat legged on home brews. The nastiest was called "pasheran" (iirc) it was in old medecine bottles and it was deadly.
At that time they were starting to build the motorway so most of the driving was along the old roads and as you said, beautiful.
When we left our choir had performed on Spanish TV and we set off home immediately after they came off air. At the French border there were hundreds of coaches held up by the Spanish Frontier Police whilst they searched for Basque terrorists. It caused a riot when the officials waved me to the front, over the border and allowed me to continue without holdup. Used to be good having a UK vehicle registration.
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Old 7th September 2017, 10:28 PM
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Vey interesting read. How times have changed Ray.
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