Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Did you survive the night? Quality of survival?

Last night, the sky was clear, almost full moon. Lovely!

Yes - still here

It's windy today, with grey rain clouds threatening, but they are currently passing by and not yielding rain.

OK ... so why is the cow looking up the lane...? What can he see that's hidden behind the hedge from me....

PasturesNew

Just been on the phone, planning my passport usage... and I now know I'll be using that in September, and taking my car as there's parking. If there wasn't parking I'd have been going as a foot passenger. September prices will be cheaper than July/August, which dictates the timescale.

I will need to explore and discover whole rafts of new information, about things like: non-EU/duty free.... insurance on car .... money's the same though... sort of. And I'll no doubt be tasked with taking over some English products that are hard to source/expensive on the Isles.

vivatifosi

Are you off to Channel Islands Pastures? If so presumably you are talking about going via France as you need passport. If you are, please also look into the things you need to take with you: breathyliser kit x 2, reflective jacket, GB sticker, fire extinguisher, spare bulb kit, warning triangle, headlight reflectors etc, which are different to here.

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

Are you off to Channel Islands Pastures? If so presumably you are talking about going via France as you need passport. If you are, please also look into the things you need to take with you: breathyliser kit x 2, reflective jacket, GB sticker, fire extinguisher, spare bulb kit, warning triangle, headlight reflectors etc, which are different to here.

The full on-board kit of a Hackney Carriage vehicle.

Depending on what you drive, you may no need the reflector kit. I know that S-Max and Jag both have auto buttons.

Not tried it on Skoda, as I've only had it for 3 days.

CK

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

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Yes, no.

PP is for ID as I've no photo license.... and you need a PP for so much these days (renting, opening bank accounts, etc) that I got one with the trip in mind, although I could fly.

Just spent the last 1-2 hours investigating options/etc and flying's about £100, so dunno what to do for the best now. I'll worry about it after my next move... no point getting to the nitty gritty right now when my next move needs to be planned/executed... in the next 4 days.

Not sure driving abroad will ever be on my radar... not sure how my speshulness could cope with thinking back to front (driving on the other side/junctions etc) ... and as I've never seen it as a passenger it might be one step too far

Nikkster

I got excited enough driving on the Isle of Wight (had never driven off the mainland before)

Just back from seeing the torch. There were a lot more people there than I thought - and we weren't in the town centre so goodness knows what it was like there. I guess it helps that it's Sunday afternoon.

The torch itself was preceeded by a number of sponsors 'floats' - funnily enough you don't see that on tv. I can understand getting costs of the relay sponsored (all those police need paying etc), but I thought it made it feel very commercialised. It doesn't make me feel any warmer about the companies, no matter how smiley and wavey the people on the floats were. Bah humbug!

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Just back from seeing the torch. ...a number of sponsors 'floats' - funnily enough you don't see that on tv.

When I saw it, it was "other vehicle" overload - so much so that I nearly completely missed the runner as you've no idea where they are in the procession.

Advice to anybody going is: make sure you can see the most length of the oncoming convoy .... and get a "spotter" to spot where the runner is and to give you a warning they're about to come past!

I got a snap, although I was turning round and spotted she'd gone past, so I aimed and clicked... expecting to get a blurry shoe: http://i45.tinypic.com/mme64y.jpg

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, no.

PP is for ID as I've no photo license.... and you need a PP for so much these days (renting, opening bank accounts, etc) that I got one with the trip in mind, although I could fly.

Just spent the last 1-2 hours investigating options/etc and flying's about £100, so dunno what to do for the best now. I'll worry about it after my next move... no point getting to the nitty gritty right now when my next move needs to be planned/executed... in the next 4 days.

Not sure driving abroad will ever be on my radar... not sure how my speshulness could cope with thinking back to front (driving on the other side/junctions etc) ... and as I've never seen it as a passenger it might be one step too far

Well if you're ever in London you could go to Savoy Place off the Strand, the one road in Britain where you have to drive on the right. Well that's a myth that it's the only one but it's the one road that cars can use.

I hate driving on the other side of the road and avoid doing so like the plague.

When DW lived abroad I had to drive now and then when over on visits but don't think I ever got used to it. Everybody tells me that once you get the hang of it it becomes routine.

Having said that there's a lot of terrible acidents in Scotland where tourists or foreign lorry drivers drive on the wrong side of the road, because when they join a quiet empty road there's no existing traffic to remind them which side of the road they should be on.

mystic_trev

I find driving in the UK boring, and it's certainly no fun here in the SE.

Give me driving on the right, wether it's through downtown Chicago or up a Mountain in Chile.

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

I got excited enough driving on the Isle of Wight (had never driven off the mainland before)

Just back from seeing the torch. There were a lot more people there than I thought - and we weren't in the town centre so goodness knows what it was like there. I guess it helps that it's Sunday afternoon.

It's our turn in Herts next weekend. Very excited about going to see it, particularly if it works out that we can watch the British GP on TV then walk down to the main road to watch it go past. I think it will be busy and suffering from Sunday afternoon syndrome here too.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I got a snap, although I was turning round and spotted she'd gone past, so I aimed and clicked... expecting to get a blurry shoe:

Link removed in case you take it down, but thought it was a really good picture.