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[megamini_jb]

Sounds awesome! Have fun and good luck

[jccc78]

 sounds more like a epic mini adventure have fun look after the mini we want to see it back same as it left

Edited by jccc78, 26 November 2014 - 12:08 AM.

[mininuts]

This sounds amazing, good luck and best wishes for the trip.

Lovely mini too

[Mini Manannán]

Fantastic trip!  All the best with it, have a belter and keep the pics flowing

[dprac1ng]

Have a good trip and enjoy yourself, your only young once my lad and, look after that lovely mini..... ( no ski jumping with it )  

 

Top Gear reference intended?

[dprac1ng]

Good luck and enjoy the drive! Loving the roof rack on that very nice Mini... Giving me many ideas for my rebuild!

[skinnyminny]

Have a great time! I can't believe I'm not doing a season this year so enjoy it for me as well please. I'll be out in Morzine in March for a wedding so will keep an eye out!

[mingy]

 

Have a good trip and enjoy yourself, your only young once my lad and, look after that lovely mini..... ( no ski jumping with it )  

 

Top Gear reference intended?

 

Top Gear ?   what,s that...............   

[Tahiti Joe]

Have fun man, done loads of travelling in mine, always been dependable and trustworthy! Enjoy the snow and take it easy, end of January im leaving too circle Scandinavia for about a month so i should be pretty good at snow driving by the end of it!  

 

Look forward too seeing your updates!

[mini_mezza]

So, We have reached our overnight stop in a place called Dole, Just south of Dijon. 

But i hear you ask "hows the journey been so far?" well, apart from a minor breakdown on the M25 this morning at 9am, its been effortless. The M25 saw us juddering along and miss-firing like a good'n, but after a 20 second phone call to the boys at SM of Weybridge and Addlestone we narrowed it down to a knackered coil pack. Fortunately i had a spare! coil pack  fitted and we were up and running and back on our way!

 

We arrived at Dover with time to spare. Once in France we were "blessed" with fog and heavy rain all the way across.... miserable! So we thought as we can't see anything we might as well stick to the motorways. We started eating up the miles as quick as the old girl was eating up the oil ;) 

For now i will leave you with a few pics of the journey so far and say Bonne Nuit...........

 

m_m

[brad-the-bear]

fantastic! 

[Black.Ghost]

I don't wish to alarm you, but you appear to have lost your roof rack and skis 

[mini_mezza]

I don't wish to alarm you, but you appear to have lost your roof rack and skis 

OH CRAP!!

haha, thankfully these have gone out with someone else in a larger car, Save on my fuel consumption! ;) 

[mini_mezza]

Another pretty shitty day in France, so a slightly more relaxed start this morning!

 

Next report will hopefully be from Morzine!

 

m_m 

[mini_mezza]

After a completely stress free day of mini driving, we have made it in to Morzine, our new home for the winter! 

Another day of rain.... until the twisty bits came, as soon as we started climbing up the mountain, we eventually came through the clouds in to the beautifully sunny french Alps! 

 

Im so proud to say that other than our little coil problem on the M25, the old girl didn't miss a beat! 

 

As you have all been so patient, here are a few more pics! 

Climbing out of the fog! 

 

 

Arriving in town! 

 

Made it!!!! WHAT A CAR!

 

Turnes out, i have a heated garage that I can store her in! Now thats better that what she gets at home! 

Thanks again! 

 

m_m