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Offline illyun

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Re: Off for 3 weeks
« Reply #10 on: 08 January 2007, 14:29 »
I'm back... arrived last night after a gruelling drive from Madrid  to Poitiers via Bordeaux on saturday and from Poitiers to London then Ipswich via Versailles Palace/Paris on Sunday - Madrid to Ipswich in 36 hours! Total mileage for the whole trip was 4500 miles from 17th Dec to 7th Jan... the driving was ok although I think the drive over this weekend pushed me over the top - my bones are literally aching  :grin:
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Offline The Doc

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Re: Off for 3 weeks
« Reply #11 on: 08 January 2007, 15:37 »
Send me / pm me some pics mate!

BTW those new R32's can't be "corrected" so slow up on the miles  :grin:
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Re: Off for 3 weeks
« Reply #12 on: 08 January 2007, 15:48 »
Welcome back to Blighty.    :smiley:
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Re: Off for 3 weeks
« Reply #13 on: 08 January 2007, 17:26 »
how did the car peform then, good long distance cruiser?
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Offline wantmygti

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Re: Off for 3 weeks
« Reply #14 on: 08 January 2007, 20:29 »
That 3 weeks went quickly.

Wake up and tell us how it was then!!!
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Re: Off for 3 weeks
« Reply #15 on: 08 January 2007, 20:36 »
Hope that you had a nice time. Three weeks really went fast.

Out of interest what was your average speed and MPG?
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Offline illyun

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Re: Off for 3 weeks
« Reply #16 on: 09 January 2007, 20:28 »
Not sure about average speed but I was doing between 95-130 on the motorways even when it was minus 3 in the Alps - chasing some UK 06 Plated Range Rover Sports on the edge of sheer drops!  Just really tired at the moment - worsened by the fact that I had to drive from Ipswich to Wales the morning after I got back.  I will be posting a lot of photos and info soon though.  :wink:
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Re: Off for 3 weeks
« Reply #17 on: 09 January 2007, 20:50 »
Cheers
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Offline illyun

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Re: Off for 3 weeks
« Reply #18 on: 10 January 2007, 10:31 »
Don't understand this but while I was driving around Europe I didn't really feel tired but now its been 3 days since I returned but have no energy and my bones/body still ache...  probably just need a lot of rest... plus I'm a wimp so that doesn't help  :grin: :grin: :grin:   

By the way, the mpg hovered around 23mpg but I really had a very heavy right foot  :evil: :evil: :evil:

Except when I almost ran out of petrol in South Spain en route to Gibraltar from Barcelona.  The MFA was showing 0 miles of fuel left for about 10 miles and I was doing 45mph in 6th gear on the main motorway trying to make it to a service station because the surroundings looked something like a dodgy Mexcian countryside region - NOT  a place where you'd want to run out of fuel  :shocked:.  The mpg on that occasion hovered around 37-38mpg.  :grin:  I have to admit - I wished I was in a GTI at that point.
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Re: Off for 3 weeks
« Reply #19 on: 10 January 2007, 23:51 »
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