)My ownership up to now has been well documented in these here forums, and since owning it, nothing with the car has gone majorly wrong, and so far it has been a love relationship with the car - even my mates who originally hated it are warming to her quickly now!
I bought the car for £300 and have fixed the pop-up and the info centre both of which weren't working when I bought her and done the aforementioned servicing to put in some new oil and parts to keep her ticking over nicely.
After bringing her up to Durham she got broken in to and more recently she was the poor victim of some idiot driver reversing into her almost perfect body.
Anyway back to the European tour plans. We depart on the 3rd of July from Dover to Dunkerque, quickly heading into Belgium where we will stay for a few days soaking up the good beer and the cows. We'll head through Germany (again no definite plans) but we want to visit Waldorf and Worms purely for comedy value; we decided to avoid the big cities for the start of the holiday
Then we are going to be in Prague from around 10th July before heading down through Cesky Krumlov (to visit a nice local brewery - Eggenberg)
After a long day we shall bomb it down through various countries (600 miles) until we get to Bol (on the island of Brac) in Croatia, for a week. For the sun sand and s... Here we just hope to relax, soak up the sun and enjoy the clean waters.
The we shall head back up north to Bled in Slovenia for the picturesque views and for a bit of walking
We'll go through Italy stopping off wherever will offer us a room (or a suitable camp site) to the south Coast of France, through Menton, Monaco and to Marseille.
From there we will head north over the Millau Viaduct to the Puy de Dome in the Auvergne - basically we just want to see the mountains from the Volvic ads and do some walking
After that we will head over to a small little island on the west coast of france where my nan lives (Ile d'Oleron (opposite La Rochelle)) however by this time the summer holidays will be in full swing and places, roads and stuff will get pretty packed...
After a week of surfing lessons we head home, up north back to Durham to sort out our student accommodation.
I will try and keep you posted on our travels and I will try to document and show as many photos as possible of my mate, my car and myself on our journey around europe. In total this is going to take us about 6 weeks, and hopefully we won't encounter too many problems, bad drivers and the like. One thing I have learnt (from Matts vid) is not to go to the Nurburgring
Thanks and lets hope the 480 and I can live together for many years to come (even my mum likes it which is an achievement
)Ian