IIRC and Jagermeister too.
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Romania 2017 - Comarnic Visit
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Clive, just so you know... it was 3 years today since that photo entered your life
Really? Bloody 'ell, time is simply whizzing by, it's scary.
Liked it so much I have a copy on my iPad...
Lovely picture, is that Romania Clive?Really? Bloody 'ell, time is simply whizzing by, it's scary.
Liked it so much I have a copy on my iPad...
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Noooo, it was one of Nick's taken in Scotland on his first "overland" north of Watford
He took it with his iPhone (so he said
) and I remarked how good it was!I still think it was a postcard from the local post office, or taken with a £5k DSLR.... brilliant!
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Hiya Andy, I'm sure I've said this before, but it would be great if you can make this trip one day!
I can't comment much on the journey though, I've never done it by road. I do know it's over 2,500 km (1,800 miles) and that's got to be the absolute minimum, in practice maybe more like 3,000 km or more.
My only comment is that kms in Romania will seem more like miles, in distance and speed.
The roads are slow here, narrow in comparison and with slow trucks, hills and twists and turns, it seems to take ages to cover any distance.
A 450 km trip I often do in the truck, can typically take me 7 hrs, averaging near on 60 km/hr, which in the U.K. would usually be miles for kilometers.
So that means from the border with Hungary, you'll need a full days driving to get to our patch. Between the U.K. and the border, you could be clocking almost double that average.
As Shayne has said, the Trans-European motorway (A1 - Autostrada) here is gradually coming together, but there's still major gaps in it. It does help, so don't be afraid to use it.
I think new screens are available Nick.
They certainly are here!
I had the battery replaced in my i5 too, there's always someone here ready to do this stuff.
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I hope i haven't put you off Andy truth is we have been wholly disorganized on all previous trips . Generally its been a case of "lets search for a camp" as darkness descends only to find 2 that have shut down 1 is now a roundabout and the next is now a supermarket ! sod it we say lets sleep in the carpark , who knew a coach full of people would arrive every hour throughout the night and we would be back on the road at 5am just to get some peace 
This year i hope we have a realistic and workable plan making 9am to 9pm worst case scenario , and even if we arrive at 9pm we ate our evening meal at a service station earlier so its set up feet up and crack open a beer .
If it goes to plan fatigue really shouldn't come into play at all .
Not wanting to contradict Clive but i think his perspective of Romania's roads is clouded by his regular commute , to and from his place to the border is a leisurely Sunday drive that makes it almost a shame to use the new motorway , being stuck behind a lorry and having to wait 15 minutes for a safe place to overtake is about the worst of it .
This year i hope we have a realistic and workable plan making 9am to 9pm worst case scenario , and even if we arrive at 9pm we ate our evening meal at a service station earlier so its set up feet up and crack open a beer .
If it goes to plan fatigue really shouldn't come into play at all .
Not wanting to contradict Clive but i think his perspective of Romania's roads is clouded by his regular commute , to and from his place to the border is a leisurely Sunday drive that makes it almost a shame to use the new motorway , being stuck behind a lorry and having to wait 15 minutes for a safe place to overtake is about the worst of it .
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I don't mind being contradicted, ME is on a different route to Bistrita, in the North.
I also did Bucharest to Timisoara once in 11 hours... but that was a while ago...
I also did Bucharest to Timisoara once in 11 hours... but that was a while ago...
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Guys, just got my "bumf" through from adac. Funnily enough its all in johny foreign, am I supposed to do anything with it? Just asking as theres a form with my details on and at the bottom it says Datum which i'm guessing is date and unterschrift which im going for as signature.
You could always give Adnan a call Nick. I think they usually get their countrymen on a direct debit or such but there would be fees for that from here. Maybe that's what the form was for?
I got the Motorweld mag today too. Skimmed through it as meine deutsche ist nicht sehr gut. Found an interesting ad for tough car mats that I'm going to look at on 'tinternet now.
Great, they've actually got floor liner mats for a 1994 Landcruiser. How good is that?! 
http://www.weathertecheurope.com/en/toyota/1994/land-cruiser/floorliner-digitalfit/
http://www.weathertecheurope.com/en/toyota/1994/land-cruiser/floorliner-digitalfit/
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