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Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:54 am

http://www.10000things.org.uk/swscotlandmarch2006.htm

So many photographs that it's almost a video!

Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:59 pm

nice of you to post these photos. the light is fantastic sweet.
i shipped my motorcycle over from new york en route to catalonia in 1987 but first made a side trip to skye, the outer hebrides, and more. didn't take hardly any photos at all. this definately threads some gaps in my memories. thanks much. i'll be back to visit your trips site when i can.

Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:45 am

My first reply after nearly 5 weeks! Thank you!

You'll find Skye, etc. (here's a taster: http://www.10000things.org.uk/images/westVI19.jpg) amongst the other "Adventures" and one day I'll get around to publishing a trip we did to the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides) as well.

Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:13 am

that's fabulous. it reminds me of a trip i took up to newfoundland with my wife a few years ago. 2 1/2 weeks, almost 5000 miles

Mon May 01, 2006 5:31 am

On our last trip to France we did 3,468 miles in three weeks and every time we go to Europe we say we'll keep the mileage down this time, but around the next bend there's always something else to see, isn't there. (Notice that like a true Brit I think that Europe is somewhere other than where I live). And it's odd that you should mention Newfoundland - I've been reading that within 50yrs we're likely to have a climate like theirs.

Mon May 01, 2006 7:08 am

We added 2800 miles in 2004, and 2600 miles in 2005 with our 1967 SO42 during the holidays in France.
And what you say is sooo true .. when you're there you just want to see more of the country with their little
white and yellow (on the map) D-roads, and before you know it, you're 1000 miles from home !! :P

2004; begin of the Mont Blanc massif

2005; Millau bridge

Love you're pictures, looking forward for the 2006 ones !! :wink:

Mon May 01, 2006 12:20 pm

Isn't that bridge beyond amazing! The French really do know how to show off, don't they.

Now I've got the digital camera I want to repeat every trip we've ever done.

Tue May 02, 2006 1:53 am

Noomo wrote: The French really do know how to show off, don't they.

but did you knew that the architect of the Millau bridge is British ?? :lol:

Tue May 02, 2006 2:05 am

Area51 wrote: when you're there you just want to see more of the country with their little
white and yellow (on the map) D-roads, and before you know it, you're 1000 miles from home !! :P
nice to hear from someone who doesn't spend their trip on autoroutes and comes home with exciting stories of the lovely service areas they slept in. :wink:

Tue May 02, 2006 2:33 am

We always take the RN's and D-roads when we are in France (or Switzerland 2004, visit the Chateaux d'Oeux
meeting), and after a week or two we find out that we're 100's of miles from home, and only have 3 to 4 days
to travel home.
So on our way back home we mostly take autoroutes, but most of the miles we're driving on small country roads.
This year -first 3 weeks of July- things will be different, because my wife will be 33 weeks pregnant, and due to the
stifness of our lowered and narrowed SO42, she demanded that i take some nice, flat and comfy roads :oops:

Our actualy plan for 2006 was the Norkapp in Norway, or Scotland/ Ireland, but plans had to change because she
became pregnant of our second child. :D

Tue May 02, 2006 5:15 am

oorwullie wrote: Area51 wrote: when you're there you just want to see more of the country with their little
white and yellow (on the map) D-roads, and before you know it, you're 1000 miles from home !! :P
nice to hear from someone who doesn't spend their trip on autoroutes and comes home with exciting stories of the lovely service areas they slept in. :wink:

"Pont"ificating again, oor wullie? :)

Wed May 03, 2006 2:49 am

:lol: