Distance: nine hundred and thirty two kilometres
Driving time: seven hours and ten minutes
Plus: twenty minutes channel crossing
Plus: twenty minutes unloading van in Cambridge
Plus: half an hour chatting to Cat
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Monday, 16 February 2009
Travel by Numbers 8: Berlin - Ghent
Distance: eight hundred kilometres
Duration: seven hours fifteen minutes
Idiot drivers: none
This is the same trip I did in December (check Travel by Numbers 2). This time it took me slightly longer because this time the van is full.
One very bizarre thing happened though: as I was passing Bielefeld, I was overtaken by a fleet of police vans. One hour later, passing Recklinghausen, another convoy passed me. They weren't the same ones - these ones all had Recklinghausen licence plates. Half an hour later: another 10 police vans. This time from Gelsenkirchen, and these ones all had little blue flags attached to the front of their vans.
Why?
Tomorrow I will go on the fantastic Eurotunnel again. It's the best thing about going to the UK. I get to drive the car on the train and sit in it while I get driven under the North Sea.
Duration: seven hours fifteen minutes
Idiot drivers: none
This is the same trip I did in December (check Travel by Numbers 2). This time it took me slightly longer because this time the van is full.
One very bizarre thing happened though: as I was passing Bielefeld, I was overtaken by a fleet of police vans. One hour later, passing Recklinghausen, another convoy passed me. They weren't the same ones - these ones all had Recklinghausen licence plates. Half an hour later: another 10 police vans. This time from Gelsenkirchen, and these ones all had little blue flags attached to the front of their vans.
Why?
Tomorrow I will go on the fantastic Eurotunnel again. It's the best thing about going to the UK. I get to drive the car on the train and sit in it while I get driven under the North Sea.
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Travel by numbers 7: Milan - Berlin
I didn't return from Parma because after the last show Bara and I took off on a roadtrip through Tuscany. It was fantastic.
So after 5 days I dropped her off at Milan Malpensa airport and drove back to Berlin
Distance: one thousand one hundred and twenty three kilometres
Duration: thirteen hours and forty five minutes
Idiot drivers: five (three of which were Italian truck drivers)
Traffic was hideous, as you would expect on a rainy Friday.
Which is why I will start my trip to the UK on Saturday, with a little stopover in Ghent.
So after 5 days I dropped her off at Milan Malpensa airport and drove back to Berlin
Distance: one thousand one hundred and twenty three kilometres
Duration: thirteen hours and forty five minutes
Idiot drivers: five (three of which were Italian truck drivers)
Traffic was hideous, as you would expect on a rainy Friday.
Which is why I will start my trip to the UK on Saturday, with a little stopover in Ghent.
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