Last day of the trip.

[Tonybvi]

As it was such a nice day yesterday we took the car and drove to Stonehaven for a couple of galettes in the Cafe Noir. We walked along the boardwalk from the harbour to Cowie and back. This took us past Marine Drive which is a great motorhome night stop (where the OP overnighted last week) right beside the sea. Motorhomes are sort of tolerated here with no overnighting signs appearing and disappearing at random intervals. I was quite disappointed to note that there were two caravans, unhitched from their cars with the cars nowhere to be seen, parked along here. Both were on chocks and clearly overnighting. As we walked past one of them the door opened and the lady tipped a bowl of washing up water over the footpath. I fear that if this carries on the no overnighting signs will become permanent and another good spot (which we often use) will be lost.
I suppose there is nothing wrong with caravans parking up but to openly dispose of dirty water so publicly really doesn’t help their reputation.

Were there caravans there when you overnighted Pudsey?

 

[alcam]

Yes but I don't think you can beat Northern Spain, especially the Basque country.so try to get dog cabin if you can.

Pretty sure dog cabin not happening. Checked out all the options .
Dieppe to Spain for me , which is not a problem

 

[marchie]

And we just meet you waiting for the ferry

Made it across the M27/A27/A34/M40/M5 to the Hagley Bypass, arriving at 02:06 this morning. And this after 3 Complaints to Reception about the screaming, squealing brats and their shouting parents in the next door cabin ...

'Quiet Zone' marking for the Cabin corridor? What a joke

Steve

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Were there caravans there when you overnighted Pudsey?

No, oddly we've never stayed anywhere if we see caravans, it's just never happened.

 

[marchie]

A Vauxhall Chevette Barry?

Shame on you!

You sure it wasn't a Vauxhall Shove It, Rob?

Steve

 

[Robmac]

You sure it wasn't a Vauxhall Shove It, Rob?

Steve

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[barryd]

My brother was daft enough to buy a Chevette. He wrote it off 300 yards from our house in the fog. Drove it straight into the back of a parked Pontiac Firebird. It just fell to bits. There was hardly a mark on the Pontiac.

 

[Robmac]

My brother was daft enough to buy a Chevette. He wrote it off 300 yards from our house in the fog. Drove it straight into the back of a parked Pontiac Firebird. It just fell to bits. There was hardly a mark on the Pontiac.

Worse still, my brother bought a fekkin Allegro, then a Princess then a Marina.

How he ever got a girlfriend I'll never know!

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I worked doing PDIs in a BL garage, we were not allowed to jack up the Allegros.

 

[barryd]

Worse still, my brother bought a fekkin Allegro, then a Princess then a Marina.

How he ever got a girlfriend I'll never know!

My brother can top that. He went out and got a Talbot Solara! He even went around singing the my Solara and me song from the ad. I've not spoken to him since.

 

[Robmac]

I worked doing PDIs in a BL garage, we were not allowed to jack up the Allegros.

Mate of mine bought one from and registered to one Mr Harry Webb (AKA Cliff Richard).

Apparently he bought it for his gardener to use.

 

[Robmac]

My brother can top that. He went out and got a Talbot Solara! He even went around singing the my Solara and me song from the ad. I've not spoken to him since.

I remember that ad Barry - most annoying. That should have put anybody off of buying one.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I am proud to say I had never heard of it.

Looks a bit like a Nissan Bluebird, the taxi drivers fave of the time.

 

[Robmac]

I am proud to say I had never heard of it.

Looks a bit like a Nissan Bluebird, the taxi drivers fave of the time.

Yeah, that and the Sunny Kev.

When I worked in Bristol for 3 years I stayed in digs down there Monday - Friday and came home at weekends. Outside the digs parking was on an unsurfaced road at the back of the digs (a bit like Tim's alley of death). Cars were broken into or stolen on a nightly basis.

I bought myself a Sunny for 20 quid and strangely enough it never got touched.

 

[marchie]

Worse still, my brother bought a fekkin Allegro, then a Princess then a Marina.

How he ever got a girlfriend I'll never know!

Princess Marina? Apparently she's all allegro when aroused ...

Steve

 

[Robmac]

My brother can top that. He went out and got a Talbot Solara! He even went around singing the my Solara and me song from the ad. I've not spoken to him since.

Please tell me that he didn't fit the 'Carlos Fandango' wide wheels Barry!

 

[barryd]

I remember that ad Barry - most annoying. That should have put anybody off of buying one.

You would think so but he is a twat. He even sang the song himself. I don't think it lasted long. They probably started to rot in the factory. Us hooligans had MK1 and MK2 escorts, Minis and the odd Datsun. The 120y, Triple S and the 240z were pretty quick back in the day for what they were. My best pals dad has a Datsun / Nissan dealership.

 

[wildebus]

Worse still, my brother bought a fekkin Allegro, then a Princess then a Marina.

How he ever got a girlfriend I'll never know!

I actually had a nightmare about an Austin Allegro (seriously!).

I was about to join a new company and they had a strict "BL Cars" Company Car Policy.... Managers got to choose Rovers, Plebs got to run Austins - and the MD got a brand new Jaguar XJ6 every year from the dealer as a 'thank you' for the Rover and Austin purchases.
I woke up in a cold sweat after dreaming I was going to be given the keys of an Allegro . As it happens I got given a 2 year old Austin Ambassador instead - so not much better for Street Cred for a guy in his 20's .
Got it replaced with an Austin Montego a year later which was a bit better. (The TV Advert with the guy going on two wheels in the car park and then doing a 180 degree handbrake turn into the parking space helped a bit later on when I was on my 3rd Montego. One of my colleagues decided to recreate that spin to park in the company car park and did it beautifully, apart from some senior manager happened to be looking out the office window at the time and was not impressed!)

 

[Pauljenny]

Spanish for "doesn't go", is " No va"
Nobody told Vauxhall.... Or my dozy Brother in law.

But it was right.

 

[barryd]

I actually had a nightmare about an Austin Allegro (seriously!).

I was about to join a new company and they had a strict "BL Cars" Company Car Policy.... Managers got to choose Rovers, Plebs got to run Austins - and the MD got a brand new Jaguar XJ6 every year from the dealer as a 'thank you' for the Rover and Austin purchases.
I woke up in a cold sweat after dreaming I was going to be given the keys of an Allegro . As it happens I got given a 2 year old Austin Ambassador instead - so not much better for Street Cred for a guy in his 20's .
Got it replaced with an Austin Montego a year later which was a bit better. (The TV Advert with the guy going on two wheels in the car park and then doing a 180 degree handbrake turn into the parking space helped a bit later on when I was on my 3rd Montego. One of my colleagues decided to recreate that spin to park in the company car park and did it beautifully, apart from some senior manager happened to be looking out the office window at the time and was not impressed!)

The guy that did the Montego advert on two wheels was my best mates brother in law. Russ Swift. We used to baby sit for his son Paul who also got into racing etc. Both were regulars on Top Gear. I went round a circuit with Russ once, Amazing. The best was getting a ride out in his E Type at full chat when I Was about 13 I think.