Had I been able to come back and visit the old man last year as planned, I was wanting to add 7-10 days to drive down through France and over into Italy as the 'me' bit of the trip. Still something I'd very much like to do. Complicated trying to hire something passable to drive on an International License without spending silly money though...Jimexpl wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:03 am If you haven’t done it, for me public road motoring nirvana still exists in the Pyrenees. Get up at 5am in the hills and you can spend 3 1/2 hours driving as fast as you want in the mountains, only slowing for villages, before traffic starts to interrupt flow. Easily worth the ten hour drive from Calais.
I was going to try and do NC500 too and spotted there's an outfit in Inverness who'll hire you an MX5 which seemed ideal...
Determined to do both of those drives while I can.
That trip tailing HBP in the 'teg still stands out to me. I still look at them and have a saved search on our equivalent of Ebay. Current 'if I win the lotto tonight I'm having it' example: Clicky