A few of my mates had the Old Ford’s, capris, xr2, xr3, all great motors. Cousin had a souped up capri too…terrifying at speed with him at the wheel😂 plain old me had old series that used to arrive about a week after that lot. They used to rip me to bits about its speed. I know Carterton well, went through Brize a fair few times. Good place. 😎
I went to Brize a few times as an Air Cadet, can't think why now, so long ago. (68-72).
Was it an air transport place, could I have flown there in a forces VC10 with the seats all facing backwards? Did it have Belfast and Hercules?
Really can't remember. :rolleyes: :(
 
Do you prefer a briar, a Meerschaum or a clay pipe!!!??? 🤣 🤣 🤣
(I had a Canadian, female, english teacher at prep school who used to go to the boot room and smoke a churchwarden!)
I dunno but loved the smell of cherry tobacco going through a pipe. When I used to smoke rollies in the old tobacconist I used to buy ice cream papers.

Bloody tobacconist in Inverness lost money as I asked for some cherry rolling tobacco she said ladies shouldn't smoke... Is it still there in the Victorian market building?
 
OK this is what happened (with any gory details removed).....

A small update, with a definite "glossing over" of the worst bits.

My friend Paul & I met up in Maasluis after landing at our respective ferry ports (Hook for me, and Rotterdam for Paul).
After some refreshment we cycled to the Erasmusbrug bridge and took a ferry (25Km) to Dordrecht.
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We had lunch in Dordrecht and then travelled to our first campsite.
I had a major financial disaster at this point on this first day (I lost my wallet with all my money, cards etc. etc. as it fell out of my pocket onto the road somewhere) but with help from my family at home and some frantic calls to my bank(s) etc. a bank transfer of funds and Paul's assistance we managed to overcome things.

Paul and I learnt how to climb on top of a picnic table to get out of the rain-puddle growing under our feet.
A very nice Dutch lady saw us shivering in the cold and wet under the pergola and invited us to come and take Coffee with her and her husband and we spent about 2 hours with these charming and delightful people.
Our intended campsite in Tilburg was full when we got there towards the end of the day and we frantically called around to find another place.
We were rejected out of hand by several potential campsites for no good reason we could fathom but one lovely lady at "Camping Petit013" took us in and it turned out to be the best site of the tour.
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We did manage to meet up with our Dutch friend Emiel in Hilvarenbeek for lunch on the Saturday :) . Another friend (Maddox) was sadly Hors-de-combat with Covid :(.

We achieved all of the goals that we set for ourselves regarding Islands, towns/villages visited and total of 287 miles (459Km) were e-assist traveled by me, and wholly manpower-pedaled by Paul.

My biggest battery (20AH) failed on our longest single trip (82Km 51.6 Miles) from Hulten to Melissant (via Ould Tonge for dinner) ) we were towing our fully loaded trailers and we limped along and arrived after dark and pitched our tents by torchlight. We were both rather exhausted I think.

We stayed here for 2 nights and then made our way back to the port area via the Krabbeplat and another campsite for 2 nights.

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I arrived back at Harwich on this morning's 06:30 ferry.
As all I had was my phone and the contactless payment it offers, no cards, not even the car parking ticket to try and get a price from the car park machine at Harwich I was worried they would not let me out of the car park as I could not pay or that they would slap loads of charges on. But.....After a 2 minute call to the number on the machine I was instructed to "wait there" and in 5 mins a lovely lady popped out of nowhere and handed me a car park exit pass and said "Here's your 'get out of jail free' card" and I escaped without paying the £8.60/day charge OR the £85 lost ticket admin charge. Success!
40 minutes later I was home with my lovely wife. :D



Everywhere we stayed we took the opportunity to visit as many of the local places we could.

The weather was the worst I have experienced in any of my four my trips to Holland, there were very few Sunny days and most of the time we were dodging rain showers or storms. A lot of card playing was done in our evenings while we watched the rain falling.

Verdict:
A good trip with both highs and lows, some wonderful cycling and some abysmal weather. Ha! Ha!
 
OK this is what happened (with any gory details removed).....

A small update, with a definite "glossing over" of the worst bits.

My friend Paul & I met up in Maasluis after landing at our respective ferry ports (Hook for me, and Rotterdam for Paul).
After some refreshment we cycled to the Erasmusbrug bridge and took a ferry (25Km) to Dordrecht.
image.png


We had lunch in Dordrecht and then travelled to our first campsite.
I had a major financial disaster at this point on this first day (I lost my wallet with all my money, cards etc. etc. as it fell out of my pocket onto the road somewhere) but with help from my family at home and some frantic calls to my bank(s) etc. a bank transfer of funds and Paul's assistance we managed to overcome things.

Paul and I learnt how to climb on top of a picnic table to get out of the rain-puddle growing under our feet.
A very nice Dutch lady saw us shivering in the cold and wet under the pergola and invited us to come and take Coffee with her and her husband and we spent about 2 hours with these charming and delightful people.
Our intended campsite in Tilburg was full when we got there towards the end of the day and we frantically called around to find another place.
We were rejected out of hand by several potential campsites for no good reason we could fathom but one lovely lady at "Camping Petit013" took us in and it turned out to be the best site of the tour.
image.png




We did manage to meet up with our Dutch friend Emiel in Hilvarenbeek for lunch on the Saturday :) . Another friend (Maddox) was sadly Hors-de-combat with Covid :(.

We achieved all of the goals that we set for ourselves regarding Islands, towns/villages visited and total of 287 miles (459Km) were e-assist traveled by me, and wholly manpower-pedaled by Paul.

My biggest battery (20AH) failed on our longest single trip (82Km 51.6 Miles) from Hulten to Melissant (via Ould Tonge for dinner) ) we were towing our fully loaded trailers and we limped along and arrived after dark and pitched our tents by torchlight. We were both rather exhausted I think.

We stayed here for 2 nights and then made our way back to the port area via the Krabbeplat and another campsite for 2 nights.

image.png


I arrived back at Harwich on this morning's 06:30 ferry.
As all I had was my phone and the contactless payment it offers, no cards, not even the car parking ticket to try and get a price from the car park machine at Harwich I was worried they would not let me out of the car park as I could not pay or that they would slap loads of charges on. But.....After a 2 minute call to the number on the machine I was instructed to "wait there" and in 5 mins a lovely lady popped out of nowhere and handed me a car park exit pass and said "Here's your 'get out of jail free' card" and I escaped without paying the £8.60/day charge OR the £85 lost ticket admin charge. Success!
40 minutes later I was home with my lovely wife. :D



Everywhere we stayed we took the opportunity to visit as many of the local places we could.

The weather was the worst I have experienced in any of my four my trips to Holland, there were very few Sunny days and most of the time we were dodging rain showers or storms. A lot of card playing was done in our evenings while we watched the rain falling.

Verdict:
A good trip with both highs and lows, some wonderful cycling and some abysmal weather. Ha! Ha!
Some proof there are nice people out there. Bravo.
 
Small pizza and jacket spud for tea. Gorra nuvva cooking now int micro wave. Ain't had spuds fer some months as eye were worried about turning into one. You are wot yer eats.

Eye spottid em int sainsberrys. They were nice un big. Eye looks for the squashed football type. They cook evenly nicely. Eye chops em int half. They cook quicker like this. Put verticle and horizontal cuts in. Microwave for 10 mins dependent on size. Then spread wiv utterly butterly then eat.
 
Service is done but wow the brakes don't need changing near enough a full pad

Even wear on both sides, no sign of s sticky piston ?
Small pizza and jacket spud for tea. Gorra nuvva cooking now int micro wave. Ain't had spuds fer some months as eye were worried about turning into one. You are wot yer eats.

Eye spottid em int sainsberrys. They were nice un big. Eye looks for the squashed football type. They cook evenly nicely. Eye chops em int half. They cook quicker like this. Put verticle and horizontal cuts in. Microwave for 10 mins dependent on size. Then spread wiv utterly butterly then eat.

You can scrape the insides out and mix wivs other stuff you like and repack ...
 
Small pizza and jacket spud for tea. Gorra nuvva cooking now int micro wave. Ain't had spuds fer some months as eye were worried about turning into one. You are wot yer eats.

Eye spottid em int sainsberrys. They were nice un big. Eye looks for the squashed football type. They cook evenly nicely. Eye chops em int half. They cook quicker like this. Put verticle and horizontal cuts in. Microwave for 10 mins dependent on size. Then spread wiv utterly butterly then eat.
I'm off to the chippy
Cod chips an mushy peas :D :D
 
I went to Brize a few times as an Air Cadet, can't think why now, so long ago. (68-72).
Was it an air transport place, could I have flown there in a forces VC10 with the seats all facing backwards? Did it have Belfast and Hercules?
Really can't remember. :rolleyes: :(
Yes mate , Brize is quite a big airbase for the UK. Transport hub etc and a training school for parachuting. Few different types of aircraft based there. No Hercs anymore, a brain surgeon in the MOD decided to punt them all, bit silly if you ask me. Very good aircraft.
 
Do they still have a Capri meet near the old plant like the Escorts do.
I wouldn’t know mate. There is a club in the uk for capri owners. The Old Ford’s sure have a fan base. My other half’s old man has a 87’XR2 he wants to either sell or rebuild, I’ve told I’d buy it if he sells. Be a good project as it’s complete. It was put away dry stored 25 years ago. It looks pretty ok for that. We’ll see.
 
Small pizza and jacket spud for tea. Gorra nuvva cooking now int micro wave. Ain't had spuds fer some months as eye were worried about turning into one. You are wot yer eats.

Eye spottid em int sainsberrys. They were nice un big. Eye looks for the squashed football type. They cook evenly nicely. Eye chops em int half. They cook quicker like this. Put verticle and horizontal cuts in. Microwave for 10 mins dependent on size. Then spread wiv utterly butterly then eat.
I'm off to the chippy
Cod chips an mushy peas :D :D
Making a curry later.
 

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