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[Entwood]

Hi all .. we is back

Had a great time, and I've stuck some piccies up if you are really bored ....

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1219005172/0#0

Some quick statistics ... 2032 miles in 18 days, 1262 of which were towing, average consumption according to the CID, 20.3 mpg, average petrol cost £1.07 /litr, average LPG 68p/litre so savings were only around 30% .. but still saved an estimated £150. Average towing speed 50 mph, on the motorways we sat at 60-65 most of the time.

Highest point towing 1032 metres (3400 ft) highest point solo 1584 metres (5200 ft). Average daily temperature 34 degrees - highest we got was 38 degrees, It rained twice, loverly thunderstorm at 0300 one day ... and a wet Tuesday afternoon 30 minutes after we had finished packing the awning away  ..  

Only glitch was on the way down the big mountain, nearly 12 miles of 999.9 mpg, and the water temp down below 80 !!  the emissions light came on !!. Stopped and did the pedal thing, got 0420 and 0430. My trusty list of codes gave this as the famous bank 1 & bank 2 cats out of limits ( you all said it would happen eventually !!) so we drove on. back at the site I plugged in the ELM327 .. it said I only had an 0420 now, cleared that and never had another murmer .. so thanks to OOF Knowledge the holiday continued ... pre-OOF days I would have been panicking !!

Off again tomorrow for 10 days in Zumerzet, so shan't be on long tonight Got a nice bottle of "something special" for Newent, just hope it feels warmer there than I do now !!

[waspy]

Very nice pic I see at one point you where surounded by Sheeps, i hope you remembered your wellies  
Your Mig was looking good too  

[HolyCount]

Where in somerset are you brave enough to venture ?

[Entwood]

We're off to Frome Showground .. also known as West Woodlands .. .

There's a 6-centre caravan meet on and I'm part of the organising setup, so go tomorrow to set up for the punters to arrive Friday, they leave Monday, we leave Wednesday..

Awaits comments about pikey's .....  

[HolyCount]

Please don't judge somerset by Frome  :-? I find it a depressing place, all grey stone and nothing to do!!!  I am sure the showground will have it's own entertainment though !

Not far from your normal habitat though !

Hope all goes well .... and the weather perks up  

[Growler]

Looks like you had a great time, lovely photo's too, I guess there is a bit of a temperature difference now you are home.

[Entwood]

Looks like you had a great time, lovely photo's too, I guess there is a bit of a temperature difference now you are home.

It's bloody freezing !!!!!  Sitting here with a damned sweater on top of a rugby shirt .. we even thought about putting the heating on !!!!!

 

[Entwood]

Forget to say .. France is an almost "Miggy Free Zone" ... only saw 3 others in the whole time, but managed to give a "flier" to each ... a British pre-facelift tractor on the ferry terminal at Portsmouth, a Dutch mini-facelift on the site at Limoge, and a British mini-facelift CDX, with knackered rear springs, on the site at Caen on the way home.

We got an awful lot of looks, and several folks came and asked about the car on our main site near Millau, most of those asking were Dutch ...

[Bandit127]

Please don't judge somerset by Frome  :-? I

Didn't Frome get put in to Somerset from Wiltshire when the county borders changed. Would explain a lot