We set off in force for the ferry first thing Sunday morning ready for the first leg to Dijon...
First top after leaving Dijon was the alps. These pics were taken just before we entered...
Some nice views were to be had..
Lads decided this was a good point to tee off
and a few more pics
made a new friend
some pretty awesome views and some pretty deep snow
this place was like heaven!!
Then it was onto italy where we hit Lake Garda
We plodded on towards nothern italy where we would be spending the night on the italy swiss boarder where temps kept rising
outside the hotel inside of Stalvio national park
Started making our way up stalvio along with a video upto the top
http://youtu.be/GJxERojwvkM
new car in development at the top
pic of me posing
car got a lot of attention up here
Skiing was in full flow at the top...
and down the other side
this was the crossing to the tunnel that took you out of italy and into switzerland
switzerland was also stunning
sexy RS3 was spotted along the way
The next day was just not meant to be! got up and organised the day and all planned to leave for the fuel station or so i thought but when we got there half the people carried on the journey and i wish i had to as i didnt even need fuel but decided to wait...
But i guess road trip wouldnt be completed without a fine of some sort! Sadly it wasnt a speeding fine though!
Started off thursday morning and left for 8:30 in convoy to the fuel station a couple of kilometres down the road as people needed to fill up! As were waiting one of the lads did a pretty sick donut in his 200 sx on some poor guys business forecourt!
Needless to say the guy wasnt happy and got straight on the phone to the police which little did we know was 2 mins down the road! In the mean time the drift car dissappears police pull up and take a couple of us to the station for number plates to which a few others followed! Beleive 6 cars in total!
Get there getting nowhere because of the language barrier to explain to be greated by our €90 fines! To which I can only think to be the main man of the station gets woken up and is savage and starts going tits! Then goes outside to the other cars aswell as the 2 that were pulled and proceed to rip off all number plates that were not fixed with riviets and confiscate the keys also! And we are theb told none of the cars are being released and we would have to fly home!
Things cooled down and a deal was made we would go to a garage over the road and get bits needed to afix them how he wished and show him that it was done along with getting the drift lad to give himself in and we would be let free!
So we proceed to drill bumpers that have never been drilled from factory for plates includibg a ferrari and a nissan grt and a dodge ram.
Fair play to the lad in the drift car he came back and we were set free after over 3 hours grilling in the station and fines totalling upto €600!
In total i did £700 in fuel, £140 in toll roads, 2459 miles, 2 tyres, MAF sensor failed but car still ran perfectly and got me home. I will be booking up again next year and if this is your sort of think i would suggest you do also as it was amazing and the car loved every minute.
until the next time
