Hi Honey, we're home

And we managed to safely deliver Timo's Mitsubishi Evo 2 to its new
owner in Amstetten, Austria too.

Only one brush with the Deutsche Plod just outside Passau yesterday,
but I wasn't committing any offences, just a routine check. Kylie the
sat-nav went tits up just outside Gent in Belgium at the start of the
trip, so we kind of followed our noses to Wurzburg and then on to
Austria the next day and flew home from Vienna this afternoon after
doing a bit of sightseeing last nigh and this morning.

All in all a good road trip for me and Elly's 12 yr old lad; cheers Az,
for a good time. We managed to use a car, ferry, train, tram, metro,
bus, taxi, suburban train and aeroplane on the trip.

 

Wow! It made it!

 

That's just the scientific proof needed to demonstrate that Timo
radiates vehicle damaging Timons. It'll probably be reliable forever
now.

 

Yes, it did. I worked out it did roughly 20-22mpg sitting at a constant
80-85mph on the motorways and somehow consumed 2 litres of oil between
here and Passau, but it made it.

 

Wot? No riverboat on the Danube? Slackers.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

That's it? That's IT?

I was at least expecting photographs of girls who wouldn't sleep with
you.

Standards are really slipping, etc, etc.

 

Senility finally taking a firm grip then, Steve?

 

Az and I have decided that Austrian girls have the finest arses in
Europe, and we should know cos we checked enough of them out.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

It is, at least, a relief to learn that the boy's education is in safe
hands.

Well done.

 

He also discovered via the sat-nav that there is a town in Lower Saxony
called Belm. This fact induced many facepulls when we got home.

 

If you go a little further south, to Croatia, you will find the people are
even more beautiful. Although, compared to the rest of Austria, Wieners are
visually enriched by Romany DNA.

Did you also point out the Austrian town of Fucking and the Bavarian Wank?
You'll be pleased to hear that I did Wank earlier in the year, but have
never got close to Fucking since passing my bike test.

 

No hovercrafts?

 

So you saw those Palmers shops all over Vienna...

http://www.palmers.at/palmers_flash_en.aspx?openPage=

(*needs*wants*must shag*)

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Domènec

Probably full of eels.

 

I haven't a clue what was wrong, and we didn't hang about to find out.
We wanted to get to Vienna so we hopped on the train and went.

It was Pip's Garmin, but it turned out to be the battery going flat and
not charging off the car ciggie socket properly. It was fine the next
day but by then we'd already worked out a route and written it down. Az
gave me the directions and Kylie backed them up a minute later.

 

Ouch, that is thirsty. Even the crap Supra could do 28-30 on a long
motorway stretch and it was a lot heavier with a bigger engine.

 

<sighs and shakes head sadly>

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I've gone a bit maudlin after reading that.

I've done some entertaining road trips with my lad across Europe. Endearing
memories of waking him up at 0730 to pay a road toll after being punted off
an overnight ferry at 0700. I wished I'd had a video camera to film the
confusion as I shouted, "it's not on my side you stupid ****." Stopping
overnight in Reims and going for a champagne tasting. Listening to the
exclamation as I turned right at a red light in Florida. His relief as we
emerged from the single track road clinging to the edge of an Italian
Dolomite.

Sadly, in the near future at least, the fucker seems more interested in
working to pay for his boozing and womanising.

<pulls self together>

 

You wouldn't have it any other way.

 

To be fair, if the guy knows what he's buying it shouldn't really be a
problem, Evos are a bit heavy on oil anyway, and one of that vintage will
obviously have the added engine wear as well to let some more out.

That or the rings/turbo/engine is fucked hehe Given Timo's general
maintenence and unfortunate need to make sure everything is bob-on, despite
given such a motor's potential repair costs, I'd be surprised if it was
anything too sinister other than normal wear combined with being an Evo.
This is why I think cars bought from Timo are a great idea as he's usually
just replaced lots of bits and fixed any faults, and I'm a firm believer
that the curse is on himself and not his vehicles. Except the RX7s... but
then, "they all do that sir".