MX-5 OC Forum

 Hi Terry & Sam,

Thanks for your reply. That's a superb area you're going to. We drove down to Lathuile near Annency a few years back & toured around that part of the Alps. For our first MX5 holiday, we are going to try Scotland at the end of May, but I can't wait to get back across sur le continent.

Have a great time yourself, and let us know how you got on.

Regards,

Trev.

 Hi Trev

We will have a great time, and the same to you have lots of fun in scotland. we have been there many times and if you get the chance go to Oban I hop the weather is great for you.

Terry and Sam

Hi Trev
Sorry for the delay but I have been working away.
What I do is programme the sat nav to avoid toll roads then enjoy where it takes me.
Last year we were travelling home on a minor road somewhere in the middle of France listening to radio 4 long wave with the radio set on almost full volume to be able to hear the programme.
We stumbled across a cafe in a small village where the locals were enjoying their lunch outside beneath the veranda when we had our Allo Allo moment.
We drove around a corner and I spotted the cafe late and swerved into the car park skidding to a halt on the gravel surface which drew the attention of the locals.
Then my wife Paula pressed the wrong button to turn the radio off and energised the CD player.
As we had the roof down out blasted the Undertones Teenage Kicks.
Panicking in an attempt to silence the din I conceived only to engage full volume.
By now most of the village had turned out to see what the hell was going on.   
I eventually managed to silence the CD and we embarrassingly decanted and ordered a cappuccino and a hot chocolate.
What sort of a impression of an English Tourists we left I am unsure, but the only time the cafe owner smiled was when we paid our bill and left.

 

Me and the boss are laughing like idiots - that so easily could have been us. What a wonderful cameo to laugh about in years to come - it's things like this that make the trip. 

It gets worse.

Paula has just read my post & apart from pointing out my poor grammar she reminded me that as we skidded to a halt on the gravel surface the tyres threw up a cloud of dust that enveloped the diners as they troughed up.

I think my ageing brain wiped that from my memory.

 Hi Idris,

And they say first impressions count...  what an entry! I reckon there'll be an all points bulletin out in France for MX5's with GB plates showing! Mind you, we're not much better - a couple of years ago, we had a Mr Bean moment as we were travelling back towards Zeebrugge from Paris. As we were passing Charles De Gaulle airport, the traffic was really busy, and the sat nav seemed to be incapable of making up its mind - at the last moment it flicked over to where we should have been going, but by that time I was commited to taking what was a slip road to the airport. From there, I got caught up in a one way system and ended up going into a multi-story car park! We spiralled up & up & up to the top, then spiralled down & down & down the other side and back out onto the motorway, where we should have been, without hardly stopping! It was scary at first when we went in, but there were tears rolling down our cheeks when we got back on track and realised how stupid we (ok, me) must have looked!

Trev.

mx5@bury-st-edmunds.com:

Hi I go to Carcassonne very very often, well infect Ruffiac D'aud. I know the road. Im so So very sorry about your photos, I have come close a few times to loosing them, There are many many utils out there thet perhaps revover the files, please dont give up. My son is a specialist where are you? if you can send Him or me the drive im sure we can get somthing back.

Steve

Hi Steve.  Nice to see you're still around.  I went to Carcasonne last year.  Stayed in Ginoles so must have driven through Ruffiac D'Aud.  Beautiful part of the world.

Unfortunately it wasn't in the 5, we flew down with friends and picked up a hire car.

 Thanks Trev and again Idris, everyone in the office is looking at me having a moment! 

I've gone from having a toe-to-toe with the builders in my server room to wildly laughing at your posts within the space of two minutes!

 The only thing that happend to me on Holiday in France in 2009 is that when Sam and I was goning down the Motorway on the first day. got stoped by three policemen on bikes stoped me. I thought I was in trouble by having Sam in the front seat but all they wanted was a picture of SAM my heart was in my mouth.

Terry

Just got back from Languedoc... route was Calais>Rouen>Orleans (avoiding Paris)>Millau bridge>Narbonne>Ferrals-les-Montagnes.  The D-roads and smaller mountain passes around the Black Mountains are MADE for the MX-5 (and deserted) and I had the top down all the way there and back too.  2 full tanks of fuel, 1,000km, in my Mk1.  Brilliant.

 I'm glad you had a great time, I think the roads are great over there. I loved Narbonne when I went. I can't waite to get back over there in July/August and on Fuel wise you did realy good. Did you see many MX5 there.

Tez and Sam 

This years main holiday (or "Honeymoon" as the future Mrs Snurfen insists on calling it) will be a fly drive to Italy. Sadly no MX5 frolics there. Will have to do a September jaunt to La Belle France - absolutely love bimbling around France, and I'm running out of the lemon squash that I can only seem to get over there (Dillidam, or something like that - it's scrumptious).

tango1956:

 Did you see many MX5 there.

 

Tez and Sam 

Not one down there, although I saw a Mk1 last summer in the villages.  I was in traffic with an 09-plate newish MX5 on the way back, but no MX5 OC sticker and no acknowledgement, sadly!

I got a lot of attention from an American lady who was more interested in the iPhone setup.

 You did well about the Lady. When I went everyone wanted Sam I was jsut a side line we did meet up with some people on a yaut in Monaco know that was good. when I went I saw some MX5 but not many as over here, I just took Sam for a walk and I have seen 4 a mark 1 and three mk 3 and I'm glad to say all tops down, if you are ging to the spring rally well have to have a chat about france.

Tez and Sam

 Hi Gary,

Wondered how your trip turned out - am thinking of doing a similar route Summer; possibly Portsmouth to Bilbao then up the west coast of France to St Malo.

Cheers.

Phil C