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Was the pano setting discovered to allow selfies???
Just asking............. Uncle Ray's spare wheel protector
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6th Jul 2019 3:38 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Shhhhhhh, don’t remind me, I’ve managed to put on a stone on travels, most of it in Japan! Serious dieting will start back home, need to loose quite a bit of weight so I can start running again without knackering my knees.
7th Jul 2019 3:19 am
Dave T
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I know the feeling, not quite a stone but some of my clothes are a bit tighter after a week of all inclusive Joined the BMWX5 45e group
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7th Jul 2019 4:42 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Sad pic from jolly. Hotel was right in the airport so excellent location for 9am flight.
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Only down side is our flights to LGW are via Stockholm, Norwegian decided they didn’t want to fill their planes going to & from Singapore.
8th Jul 2019 1:53 am
ianm27
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Location: Hertfordshire
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Hope you both have safe flight(s) homeUncle Ray's spare wheel protector
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8th Jul 2019 1:33 pm
KiwiD4
Member Since: 17 Aug 2017
Location: Christchurch
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I am mighty impressed, both by the 6 month holiday and the standard of reporting!
Looking forward to the BRA/SOB version!
I get a whole week of holiday shortly. King of the typo.
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9th Jul 2019 1:55 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Was a fantastic jolly, trip of a lifetime. Just got to get over the jet lag and get unpacked. And laundry, we deffo need to do some laundry. We’ve learned a lot about travelling our way and really enjoyed the trip, it’s quite hard remembering everything we did. We (well I) sometimes think back to somewhere obscure on the way and get SWMBO’s grey cells moving by saying “remember ........... “
It was a long haul yesterday, really long and change at Stockholm and next flight to Gatwick seemed to take forever. Unfortunately as Norwegian canned the SIN - LGW route. there wasn’t many options that didn’t cost an arm & a leg. Their Premium cabin is not a bad place to be for 12 hours plus we had overwing exit seats for the second flight.
On the long flight SWMBO was happy we weren’t flying over Afghanistan but not impressed that we flew up virtually the whole length of Iran. It didn’t help that I had the rolling map up for most of that bit. Fascinating watching the desert unfold 40k ft underneath us.
Nice fold hinge.
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And got to see if this is an Iranian volcano or is Mt Fuji on its holibobs in Iran?
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SWMBO was a tad relieved when we were feet wet over the Caspian Sea.
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For fellow aviation fans, if my recognition skills are not too rusty, a classic old Caravelle at Stockholm airport fire training bit.
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And our long haul 787 giving way to our short haul 737. Very nice as we’d just taxied all the way round the airport to get to the takeoff queue. I thought we were looking for the E4 towards Malmö.
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7 countries (incl Sweden ) 6 months, 64 hotel checkins, more modes of transport than you can shake a stick at and only one lost hat. Still lots to see in that part of the world, plans are deffo afoot.
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9th Jul 2019 7:48 am
stew 46
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What an amazing trip many thanks for all the great pics i have no need to go to those places now -------------------------------------------------
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9th Jul 2019 7:55 am
Gareth Site Moderator
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Epic trip Del. Your blog on here should bring back the memories on the cold winter nights ahead.....
9th Jul 2019 8:03 am
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Trip of a lifetime there del ...what an experience 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
9th Jul 2019 8:04 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Deffo trip of a lifetime, 3 months in Vietnam was fantastic, as was 2 months in Japan. Just for completely different reasons.
Gareth wrote:
Epic trip Del. Your blog on here should bring back the memories on the cold winter nights ahead.....
It will do but the temp depends on where we’ll be in “winter”. We’ve kind of gotten used to temp numbers starting with a 3.
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9th Jul 2019 11:26 am
Rnclayton
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Thanks DSL for letting us enjoy your holiday with you. My 3 weeks in Florida is going to pale into insignificance.
Unless you all want pictures of the rides in Disney, Universal, and SeaWorld parks.....MY07 Freelander2 SE Santorini Black - Gone
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9th Jul 2019 11:28 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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They would be most excellent pics. The best hollibob is the one you’re on.
stew 46 wrote:
What an amazing trip many thanks for all the great pics i have no need to go to those places now
See, I really work for the Cornish Tourist Board. Just got to cover the rest of the planet.
9th Jul 2019 11:30 am
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We’ve learned a lot about travelling our way and really enjoyed the trip, it’s quite hard remembering everything we did. We (well I) sometimes think back to somewhere obscure on the way and get SWMBO’s grey cells moving by saying “remember ........... “
