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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Markie on 06 April 2008, 17:00:05
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Dont know where i am or what day it is...
Started the week in Maidenhead before returning north to go errr further North.
Spend two days travelling to one of the most northern points of Scotland - the very Furthest Tip of the Isle of Lewis...10 hours driving from Glasgow and 10 hours in a ferry to assist in a house removal.
Took some intresting pics - albeit from mobile phone....
Hope you like em :y
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Pica?????? :-? :-? :-?
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Stornoway Sunrise....after a very very choppy crossing
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n54/markiec23/DSC00512.jpg)
Some er....hills and water
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n54/markiec23/DSC00531.jpg)
some "in flight" entertainment look through the railings and you will see the "operative" in the rope :-/ this is a training excercise..
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n54/markiec23/DSC00520.jpg)
Great driving road between Inverness and Ullapool
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n54/markiec23/DSC00541.jpg)
Think is haggis country / roaming in the gloamin stuff ...
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n54/markiec23/DSC00549.jpg)
driving up this road ( this is the return) we had to brake suddenly everal times for deer....
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n54/markiec23/DSC00554.jpg)
...and what was i driving on the ultimate driving road....sadly this...
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n54/markiec23/DSC00518.jpg)
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Smashing scenery.......great pics too! :y
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A nice couple of days out .. and you were paid for it .. :)
(nice pics BTW :) )
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Nice Pics. :y
We sometimes forget how beautiful our Country is, I know it’s Scotland but it is in the UK, and the place my favourite tipple comes from. :) :) :)
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there's half a body by the truck!
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there's half a body by the truck!
.......there`s me coat!
People have been telling me for ages to go get it. ;D ;D
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I did that run a few years ago markie.The bit to ullapool was great.the bit on the water to stornoway, the guy serving in the bar said, a bit bumpy - no sh!t sherlock!!
loved the storno roads though
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Any Traffic Cops? ;) ;) ;)
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I have got friends that moved to Lewis a few years ago. I must go and see them...especially as my mate has recently had a serious road accident and had was taken by helicopter to the main land.
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Very nice pictures :y
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you should have got it sideways at least!
It is RWD! ;)
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I did that run a few years ago markie.The bit to ullapool was great.the bit on the water to stornoway, the guy serving in the bar said, a bit bumpy - no sh!t sherlock!!
loved the storno roads though
Done that ferry a few times - the calmac one...
This ferry was extraordinarily bad - its the "trade/ truck" ferrythat leaves Ullapool at 3am to get there for 9am..Its old and has no stabilisers - there wasa a few bounces that made me hold my breath i can tell you ;D
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Any Traffic Cops? ;) ;) ;)
Actually yes...
1115pm dark, snowing and 30 miles outside Inverness......traffic BMW behind a hedge doing speeders ::) ::)
No where is sacred anymore for some aggressive push on style driving..
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you should have got it sideways at least!
It is RWD! ;)
Hi Tunnie. It's a 7.5 tonner, drive on a a car licence, or you could when i was you age. Started out on these when i was 19/20 tender yrs. before i was HGV positive. Trouble is despite being RWD they don't drift. If you push 'em they kind of "yomp", lift a rear wheel & bounce around, any more & it's all OVER!!!!!
Now drop the trailer & play about in the tractor unit "Bobtail" & these babies drift like a Cortina on acid!!! (So i'm told) !!:D :D 8-)
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I did that trip in January 97 and what scenery, I will go back there again soon I hope
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I did that trip in January 97 and what scenery, I will go back there again soon I hope
Bloody ell was it that long ago ...... ;)
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you should have got it sideways at least!
It is RWD! ;)
Hi Tunnie. It's a 7.5 tonner, drive on a a car licence, or you could when i was you age. Started out on these when i was 19/20 tender yrs. before i was HGV positive. Trouble is despite being RWD they don't drift. If you push 'em they kind of "yomp", lift a rear wheel & bounce around, any more & it's all OVER!!!!!
Now drop the trailer & play about in the tractor unit "Bobtail" & these babies drift like a Cortina on acid!!! (So i'm told) !!:D :D 8-)
Just don't try to handbrake the tinker. Mate of mine tried it with a 7.5 and took all 4 tyres on the rear axle down to the cords.