George's Cars » Road Trips http://www.gacurley.com/cars site to keep track of what george is doing with his cars at any particular point in time Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:05:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Flying road trip http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2009/05/14/flying-road-trip/ http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2009/05/14/flying-road-trip/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 10:07:50 +0000 george http://www.gacurley.com/cars/?p=569 Just back from another UK trip. These flying visits are going to have to stop. We went over for a Safety & Health Expo in the NEC in Birmingham PLUS i had to pick up a few parts for the buggy. We covered 1500Km over the 58 hours where gone, totalling 19.5 hours.

The expo was a waste of time, maybe its the recession but there was very few people exhibiting and even fewer attending. Oh well at least I got a few bits for the buggy.

Most important I got my new wheels, I bought them through the buggy club in the uk. I also got gauges from Fester in the club. Now I’ll have to figure out now to wire them!!

I also got a few smaller bits for the buggy, being honest I can’t remember what at the moment because I too tired and I haven’t unloaded the van to refresh my memory!! I don’t think I’ll be doing a lot on the buggy over the next few days, I’ll have to catch up on family time. I’ll try get some more done over the weekend.

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]]> http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2009/05/14/flying-road-trip/feed/ 0 Road Trip http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2009/01/16/road-trip/ http://www.gacurley.com/cars/2009/01/16/road-trip/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:39:17 +0000 george http://www.gacurley.com/cars/?p=291 Well Alma and myself flew over to Mancherster on Thursday morning to collect the 70 (Red Bug). To be honest it was a fairly uneventful trip, thankfully. We had about a 3 hour drive to the ferry and 7 hours to do it so we took our time, Alma even managed to get some shopping done in North Wales! Having arrived early at the ferry we snuggled up in the bug with large cups of tea and a dvd on the laptop, occasionally glancing out to see if there was any movement.

We got the 21:30 ferry to Dublin and arrived around 1:00. Off the ferry we flew through Dublin (in spite of every light turning red before us!) When we were on the Motorway heading for galway we had a quick stop to don extra layers as we were getting extremely cold by then.

At 3:45 we arrived home, had a cup of tea to warm up and hit the sack feeling tired but satisfied with our little road trip:)

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