THE BEST..
chasing Cabby down to Stuttgart this year.. you can't really describe the feeling of hour upon hour of fast driiving on autobahn's with the spectacular Rhine vally scenery..one that will stay with me for a long time..
THE WORST..
November 2005..Cornwall...Mrs Gsi's sisters wedding..
South Beds to Tintagel on the west cornish coast...I was late leaving ( collecting wedding dress for her) and i did push on hard to get to exeter.. the radio was warning of snow in cornwall, but i was driving all the way in blue skys and sunshine...Stopped at exeter services for a while ( p break) and even thou i had enough fuel to make Tintagel, something in me said 'fill up'..Ferking glad i did!!...At Liskard i met the snow..
..now 220Bhp two wheel drive vectra in deepish snow..
and everyone snarled up for miles because muppets where abandoning cars where they lay.. however they where parked.. across carriageways or not..'banded' together with a group of other motorists who swore we where getting through and spent from 1pm on the friday afternoon to 4am on the saturday morning pushing, bumping or towing cars through to Bodmin..from where i set out to Tintagel...8 miles away..
On a dry day South beds to Tintagel is 5 hours....That friday it took me 16hrs to get into the door of the hotel...what a night.. part boredom ( the queueing) part adrenaline ( the downhill descents)...
another one that i will not forget in a while..
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