Member Since: 12 Jul 2010
Location: USA
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Going to try taking ours to Nashville, TN...about a 14 hour trip. 8)17 Discovery 5 HSE Si6, Fuji White on brown | 07 LR3 SE 4.4 Java Black on Alpaca
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26th Jul 2013 1:20 am
blue200tdi
Member Since: 23 Sep 2012
Location: Lincoln
Posts: 1094
Down to Cornwall to see the inlaws for a few days then hopefully down to Ruoms in the Ardeche region of France for a week or two of camping. You guys are gonna be busier than a test bench in a plunger factory!
Java black 2006 2.7 TDV6 HSE AUTO.
2014 Kawasaki ZZR1400 Performance sport.
26th Jul 2013 1:32 am
rockcrawler
Member Since: 31 Oct 2012
Location: Ferring
Posts: 2884
Taking ours to Heathrow Airport Car Park then flying off to TurkeyD3 Metropolis Bonatti Grey-Alpaca Leather-adaptive headlights-fridge-EGR blanking kit-Harmen Karden-Cruise-4x4 info enabled-Tinted Windows-Heated F&R Seats-Rosen rear Entertainment-LED'S everywhere -Smoked Side Repeaters-Rear Aircon-Vredestein Wintrac 4 Extreme-Puddle and Footwell Lamps-Stainless Steel Side Protection Tubes- NEW ASHTRAY ( thanks to dsd1036 )
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26th Jul 2013 9:01 am
bigcarpchaser
Member Since: 13 Oct 2007
Location: Camberley
Posts: 2270
Spud43 wrote:
Saumur is a lovely place- nice wine too matured in caves above the valley. I camped there on an island in the middle of the river. Enjoy!
Stopped off for a quick mooch round on way home from Limosin last year, does look nice. Mind you, I could easily move to Mid France tomorrow if I could just get shot of the kids lolol love it down there. So much more chilled out than here.Welcome "Lola"
26th Jul 2013 9:49 am
Macpic
Member Since: 28 Apr 2013
Location: Rambouillet
Posts: 167
Down to Catalunia for a week and then a couple of weeks around the Cantal in the centre of France. Can't wait !
26th Jul 2013 10:17 am
nigel207
Member Since: 26 Mar 2009
Location: Nottinghamshire
Posts: 1359
Unfortunately the best we're going to manage is York for a week in a couple of weeks, and then the odd weekend here and there, as we got back from three weeks near Annecy a couple of weeks ago
Roll on next year! 8)
26th Jul 2013 10:19 am
maplecottage
Member Since: 01 Feb 2011
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 3171
Just got back from France (Saint Palais sur Mer) - 2 and a bit weeks with tintent; wonderful time, weather brill (hotter than here).
The 'ol girl performed well - SWMBO not to bad either
but............ouch, those prices really hurt
Steve
26th Jul 2013 10:24 am
Fabio
Member Since: 03 Sep 2011
Location: south west
Posts: 259
Mine went to Spain and Portugal in June for 3 weeks.
3800miles and no problems. All very nice.
And tomorrow it is taking us to the Land Rover Billing.
26th Jul 2013 10:57 am
MHP
Member Since: 31 Dec 2011
Location: lydd
Posts: 2776
blue200tdi wrote:
Down to Cornwall to see the inlaws for a few days then hopefully down to Ruoms in the Ardeche region of France for a week or two of camping.
I have not long returned from that area of France. We canoed the ardeche river One of the most amazing thing I have ever done We rock jumped off of one of the biggest natural arches in the world 2009 Discovery 3 HSE - Gone
2019 Anniversary Edition D5 - Going
2019 HSE D5 - coming!
26th Jul 2013 1:32 pm
grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 6331
Done Alpine tracks this year with lots of plowing through snow than it goes to do some mud sinking in Polish mountains
fun
26th Jul 2013 2:23 pm
bigcarpchaser
Member Since: 13 Oct 2007
Location: Camberley
Posts: 2270
CMG wrote:
Going to try taking ours to Nashville, TN...about a 14 hour trip. 8)
Flipping LOVE Nashville, best place on the planet. Did CMA Festival in 2010 and can't wait to go back Welcome "Lola"
26th Jul 2013 2:30 pm
Jep
Member Since: 12 Jun 2013
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 45
Got back midnight Saturday from a week watching the Tour de France (Alpe d'Huez and Col du Glandon stages).
Road Trip app says we did 1994 miles or just shy of 250 miles a day. We used 391.81 ltrs of gazole at 23.14mpg. This was 5 up, with a roof sack on the top for the trip down and back, and 2 bikes on the back most of the time.
It was brilliant, and a mate got back into his X-Trail afterwards and asked why his car felt so small!
26th Jul 2013 2:39 pm
therso
Member Since: 01 Dec 2010
Location: Here!
Posts: 368
All with touring van (Eriba Troll):
A week in Scoteland checking out where we used to live (Alloa), Fife and Perthshire with a view to going back. Then another trip to Glasgow for, probably, the best Springsteen concert ever! Well done, Glasgow. Followed by a week in S Wales, Abergavenny & Brecon (RIP the two TA lads on selection) before taking the ferry from Harwich to the Hook for a fortnight in Germany and Holland. Going in for a service next week then we plan to clear off again to Skye so as to fill both legs with beer in Portree with an old Army mate.
Having served more than 16 years in Deutschland in total (last left in 2007) we were very saddened by the state, and formal closure after 60 years, of JHQ Rheindahlen. Complete silence, decay and emptiness except for the ghosts of the many thousands of British Servicemen and Servicewomen who served during the long Cold War (A complete waste of time and effort as the Warsaw Pact just walk in now).
Watched Bruce again in Moenchen Gladbach. Not a patch on the Glasgow crowd, and I think The Boss sensed it. Returned via the Airborne Forces Museum, Oosterbeek, Arnhem (tears........again!). NB! Camping Jagtveld, 2 kms from the Hook. Avoid! New owners, miserable, rude and unhelpful b ds !
Off to Terminal 5 Car Park in September for 3 weeks in Wyoming/Utah/Montana.
Now you're thinking bloody hell! Easy life. Got clearance to go on holiday late last year after 6 years of being a bit poorly. Making up for lost time.................................and it's firkin great!!
Nearly forgot. Saw Andre Rieu and his Orchestra in Maastricht. On April 30 he gave a concert in celebration of the new Dutch King which we saw on TV. Over 2 months later he gave the same bloody concert! Thousands in the audience from around the world who couldn't give a flying f**k about the Dutch Royal Family (including me) so change your act mate.
26th Jul 2013 3:45 pm
Kingmav66
Member Since: 20 Jul 2010
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 1349
No Summer hols for us this year.... The only place we're going is Gloucester Hospital, as our twins are due any day now
26th Jul 2013 3:49 pm
euangibson
Member Since: 24 Dec 2010
Location: Borders
Posts: 11027
Good luck ...you're not going anywhere for a while.... "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool,than to speak out and remove all doubt" ?.....what rubbish...
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Series 111 mudflaps
Black side tubes,grill and vents
Timed climate remote
Hids4u interior lights
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