Wednesday, April 22, 2009

On the road

Some notes on driving in Germany:

If you leave a gap any greater than the thickness of a cigarette paper between you and the car in front, every BMW, Audi and Porsche Cayenne within a 10 mile radius will cut in front of you.

Usually I just accept this as normal German behaviour but, occasionally, if the offending hun is driving particularly dangerously I will flash my lights and my indicators at him or her. I would like to believe that they might get the message that they should indicate in future but, sadly, they probably just think: “Ooo, look at those pretty orange lights, wish I had some.” Actually they probably don’t because they don’t look in their rear view mirrors.

Listening to the radio I am always amazed how many warnings are broadcast of pedestrians, dogs, sheep, deer, bits of wood or metal or tyre, burning cars, defective cars, cars driving on the wrong side of the road and accidents. It sounds like the Gaza Strip!

I’m pretty impressed at the old 416i: I can crank it up to about 90 in relative comfort (as comfortable as is possible with a Beemer stuck to the rear bumper). But the Schumachers in the outside lane make it look like I’m standing still: I see them fly by at about 150, drive right up to some poor unfortunate who is using their road and then put the brakes on. No wonder there are so many accidents.

It's all good fun....

Thursday, April 09, 2009

and some from Austria...





Feb 2009.

Life






















Well blogfans, as you can see I have not been updating this blog recently. In fact I've started a new blog, but am suffering from writer's constipation so have yet to go public with it.












In the meantime, to while away some dull office minutes, I thought I would put some more recent photos on this site just to show that there is life after cruising (it's life, but not as we know it!). These photos are all from El Yaque, Margarita Island, Venezuela, a truly wonderfull place and one I would surely visit if cruising in a cat which I could beach. Even without a boat I shall be sure to return to this little slice of paradise with it's chilled beach bars and plethora of windsurf centres.....












Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Wish I was still there!


Venezuela. December 2008.
Because I'm sitting in an office bored out my skull.....
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