A magnificent morning to you all as Henri arrives in Harwich for his very grand tour of the British Isles.
We're in the new SCS Renault Range T... on our first mission - to Felixstowe, just round the corner.
Tenez la gauche, thanks for the tip!
Felixstowe - Cheltenham - London - Croydon... all of these places have been updated by ProMods since we were last here - looking forward to seeing them!
Great signage!
Felixstowe reached.
Cargo delivered, took the rig for a very imaginative repaint.
They call me 'Heavy' Henri because I take the heavy jobs when I can.
Off we go for a short haul to Cheltenham.
The police are out in force today - three cars in one shot.
Back in Cheltenham - home of radio.
Already? It's only been 5 minutes.
No, you've been out here watching the trucks for half an hour. What on earth do you see in them?!
Cargo dropped off in Cheltenham, time for another.
And another makeover.
This thing needs to go to Croydon.
Passing through the Blackwall tunnel, we catch a sight of the old Millenium Dome in the rear view mirror.
The London skyline rises in the distance as we close in on Croydon.
That's it for today... next time London.
Fantasy freelancers
Here are some shots from some jobs I did around London before heading down south to Portsmouth.
Let's take a ride, and run with the dogs tonight...
...in suburbia...
...you can't hide, run with the dogs tonight...
...in Croydon.
Or maybe in IKEEEAAA. It rhymes a bit better, got to admit.
Great suburban scenery, ProMods have done a fantastic job of making a proper sprawling city.
With the occasional park too.
Delivery accomplished, we're keen for another.
Oooh, another default livery. I didn't think there would be any out yet for the new Range T, but I was wrong.
Heading north through west London.
Over the Thames.
All the sights nicely lined up. Could that be Marble Arch?
Buckingham Palace? Could well be. Full marks for trying anyway, the overall effect is good, and none of the scenery is really meant to be viewed up close on food, but glimpsed from a truck.
Out of the centre and moving towards the drop-off point.
Dropped off. Now what?
Great sights in London!
Big city feeling.
Heading out of town.
Got a job delivering cheese. Not my favourite kind of cargo. Have to deliver it to Jersey. Don't they have enough cheese down there, with all those cows? Apparently they do, but this is Different Cheese. Okay.
On our way south, nearing Portsmouth where the ferry to Jersey awaits. You can see the sea in the distance.
Portsmouth's dockyard is ablaze with colour. We'll leave Henri there for now. Au revoir!
Let's take a ride, and run with the dogs tonight...
...in suburbia...
...you can't hide, run with the dogs tonight...
...in Croydon.
Or maybe in IKEEEAAA. It rhymes a bit better, got to admit.
Great suburban scenery, ProMods have done a fantastic job of making a proper sprawling city.
With the occasional park too.
Delivery accomplished, we're keen for another.
Oooh, another default livery. I didn't think there would be any out yet for the new Range T, but I was wrong.
Heading north through west London.
Over the Thames.
All the sights nicely lined up. Could that be Marble Arch?
Buckingham Palace? Could well be. Full marks for trying anyway, the overall effect is good, and none of the scenery is really meant to be viewed up close on food, but glimpsed from a truck.
Out of the centre and moving towards the drop-off point.
Dropped off. Now what?
Great sights in London!
Big city feeling.
Heading out of town.
Got a job delivering cheese. Not my favourite kind of cargo. Have to deliver it to Jersey. Don't they have enough cheese down there, with all those cows? Apparently they do, but this is Different Cheese. Okay.
On our way south, nearing Portsmouth where the ferry to Jersey awaits. You can see the sea in the distance.
Portsmouth's dockyard is ablaze with colour. We'll leave Henri there for now. Au revoir!
Henri's British Isles tour is well under way now... better post another set in order to keep up.
About to take the Jersey ferry from Portsmouth.
Here we are in Jersey, with some cheese to deliver.
Jersey was pretty small, so that's all I've got from there. A nice little destination, though.
Picked up some containers to take to Swansea there. Back in Portsmouth ready to experience some English and Welsh countryside.
Heading north and west in the general direction of Swansea.
Crossing the Severn Bridge to South Wales.
Welsh countryside now.
And a spectacular Welsh sunset!
Swansea. Posted quite a lot of shots from there in my last thread, Heartland Journeys. So will stop at this one.
The next day we headed out of Wales across the Midlands with a rather expensive cargo for Hull.
A whole plane. That's what I call a proper load.
Would not be good to get stuck right here.
Moving north of the Midlands towards Hull.
The weather started acting up as we neared our destination.
Highway to Hull indeed. Buttocks tightly clenched, we cross the swaying Humber Bridge in howling winds and driving rain.
Looks like a billionaire has just bought a new home in Hull.
That's it for now...
About to take the Jersey ferry from Portsmouth.
Here we are in Jersey, with some cheese to deliver.
Jersey was pretty small, so that's all I've got from there. A nice little destination, though.
Picked up some containers to take to Swansea there. Back in Portsmouth ready to experience some English and Welsh countryside.
Heading north and west in the general direction of Swansea.
Crossing the Severn Bridge to South Wales.
Welsh countryside now.
And a spectacular Welsh sunset!
Swansea. Posted quite a lot of shots from there in my last thread, Heartland Journeys. So will stop at this one.
The next day we headed out of Wales across the Midlands with a rather expensive cargo for Hull.
A whole plane. That's what I call a proper load.
Would not be good to get stuck right here.
Moving north of the Midlands towards Hull.
The weather started acting up as we neared our destination.
Highway to Hull indeed. Buttocks tightly clenched, we cross the swaying Humber Bridge in howling winds and driving rain.
Looks like a billionaire has just bought a new home in Hull.
That's it for now...
Well here we are in Hull, and I got taken on by R.A.S. Haulage for a couple of jobs covering for an employee on paternity leave.
Looks pretty nifty. Today we're going to drive through the Yorkshire Dales via Hawes, and then on via the Isle of Man into Northern Ireland.
Heading northwards with a gigantic Ye Olde Cheese Churne.
Crossing a bubbling stream.
Lovely scenery along this road.
All too soon, we were gingerly picking our way towards the delivery point near Hawes along a narrow, walled overgrown road.
Here we are!
I was rewarded for my travails with a wheelbarrow brimminge fair over with fyne Curde, and a great cutte of Ham with all the condimentaries.
What the hell's got into me I do not know. It's been a long day at work, and I'm missing my home country and its ancient peculiarities a little. Nothing to do with the dales and their inhabitants. So tired...
Hawes and its environs is a great piece of mapping artistry.
Cheese again, just unbelievable. But what else would one pick up at the Wensleydale creamery?
Our journey continues westwards.
Heysham - where we'll take the ferry over to the Isle of Man.
The red flags with the white symbols and the functional buildings + strangely technical monument (or communications tower?) give Douglas a strangely Communist feel.
The Isle of Man is a little larger than Jersey, but not much, so just a few pics.
Wensleydale delivered to Ramsey, we're heading for Londonderry with what appears to be a small combine harvester.
Arrival at the port in Belfast.
Northern Irish road.
The road forked and the GPS was unclear and I was half asleep, so I played it safe and braked sharply while going down the middle, knocking this Internally Illuminated Multi Aspect Bollard for six.
The jaunt through Northern Island shall continue in a day or two. Cheers!
Looks pretty nifty. Today we're going to drive through the Yorkshire Dales via Hawes, and then on via the Isle of Man into Northern Ireland.
Heading northwards with a gigantic Ye Olde Cheese Churne.
Crossing a bubbling stream.
Lovely scenery along this road.
All too soon, we were gingerly picking our way towards the delivery point near Hawes along a narrow, walled overgrown road.
Here we are!
I was rewarded for my travails with a wheelbarrow brimminge fair over with fyne Curde, and a great cutte of Ham with all the condimentaries.
What the hell's got into me I do not know. It's been a long day at work, and I'm missing my home country and its ancient peculiarities a little. Nothing to do with the dales and their inhabitants. So tired...
Hawes and its environs is a great piece of mapping artistry.
Cheese again, just unbelievable. But what else would one pick up at the Wensleydale creamery?
Our journey continues westwards.
Heysham - where we'll take the ferry over to the Isle of Man.
The red flags with the white symbols and the functional buildings + strangely technical monument (or communications tower?) give Douglas a strangely Communist feel.
The Isle of Man is a little larger than Jersey, but not much, so just a few pics.
Wensleydale delivered to Ramsey, we're heading for Londonderry with what appears to be a small combine harvester.
Arrival at the port in Belfast.
Northern Irish road.
The road forked and the GPS was unclear and I was half asleep, so I played it safe and braked sharply while going down the middle, knocking this Internally Illuminated Multi Aspect Bollard for six.
The jaunt through Northern Island shall continue in a day or two. Cheers!
Continuing from Belfast to Londonderry, today we're visiting most of Northern Ireland. A small but nice area in PM.
Arrival in Londonderry.
A new cargo picked up. Took a wrong turn somehow, got to see a bit more of the town at least.
Londonderry to Omagh.
The sky was a beautiful blue.
Roundabout by Omagh. I don't have any shots from there, I wonder why. Too busy being captivated by the colours all around me.
Omagh to Lisburn. My engine was acting up surprisingly after that minor collision with a bollard, so I decided to stop off at Lisburn and get an expert to take a look at it.
Heading into Lisburn. The fix was simple, swift and... expensive. But soon we were on our way.
Lisburn to Belfast.
Back in Belfast. This time we'll check it out.
Big industrial city.
Picked up a new load, to be taken to Aberystwyth in E. Wales. Another ferry crossing will be required.
But not from Belfast - from Dublin. Here we are on the way out of town.
It was rush hour, though, so the going was slow. More haste, less speed, as they say.
By the time we'd finally disentangled ourselves from the rush hour traffic, the hour was getting late.
Southbound to Dublin, now in Ireland, I guess.
Still hard at work. Time to go home for tea, boys and girls.
One lovely sunset, coming up.
Next set will be from Dublin to Aberystwyth. Until then - au revoir!
Today we head across the sea to Wales and head down the eastern coast to Aberystwyth.
Night is drawing in as we approach Dublin.
Heading for the ferry.
Arrived at Holyhead at sunrise.
Holyhead
Crossing the Cymyran Strait to the Isle of Anglesey.
Looking back at the terminal.
Crossing the Menai Strait to the Welsh mainland.
Scenery town south of Anglesey. Not sure what it is. Caernarfon? Penygroes?
Porthmadog.
Porthmadog is a nice place, lots to see.
Now for the home stretch to Aberystwyth.
Impressive scenery on this route.
This is going to be a tight squeeze. The map shows some bends that will be impossible with this cargo if the walls continue all the way to the delivery point. Not merely difficult, but really impossible. Well, what can we do... onwards and upwards!!
Bye for now... Henri.
Night is drawing in as we approach Dublin.
Heading for the ferry.
Arrived at Holyhead at sunrise.
Holyhead
Crossing the Cymyran Strait to the Isle of Anglesey.
Looking back at the terminal.
Crossing the Menai Strait to the Welsh mainland.
Scenery town south of Anglesey. Not sure what it is. Caernarfon? Penygroes?
Porthmadog.
Porthmadog is a nice place, lots to see.
Now for the home stretch to Aberystwyth.
Impressive scenery on this route.
This is going to be a tight squeeze. The map shows some bends that will be impossible with this cargo if the walls continue all the way to the delivery point. Not merely difficult, but really impossible. Well, what can we do... onwards and upwards!!
Bye for now... Henri.
Back again, and getting really up close and personal with the beautiful scenery in PM Wales and Ireland.
Haven't seen a cattle grid - well, in this case sheep grid - in real life for ages. It's rare to see farm animals outside in the Czech Republic.
Luckily the walls didn't continue all the way up to the first sharp turn, and so we were able to navigate it with relative ease.
Gaining height at this interesting drop-off point.
Mind the sheep!!
After a great lunch of roast mutton at the farm I headed into Aberystwyth, where I dropped off the truck and started a new short term contract with a new employer, Hume.
Just what is it with the Welsh and their veneration of the letter H? One often sees giant white Hs in fields over there. Usually there are two of them. Could they have some kind of Pagan ritual significance?
Anyway, Hume needed me to return to Ireland, so off we set, heading south down the Welsh coast towards Fishguard.
Latent mutton at 2 o'clock!
Now that's a big house.
The great escape.
Got to say that Wales is extremely well done, a most enjoyable drive.
Closing in on Fishguard now.
Overtaken by a speeding lunatic right by the 'Drive Carefully' sign.
The classic Fishguard view.
One bumpy crossing later, we arrive in picturesque Rosslare.
That's it for now, back for another Irish tour soon.
Cheers!!
Henri
Haven't seen a cattle grid - well, in this case sheep grid - in real life for ages. It's rare to see farm animals outside in the Czech Republic.
Luckily the walls didn't continue all the way up to the first sharp turn, and so we were able to navigate it with relative ease.
Gaining height at this interesting drop-off point.
Mind the sheep!!
After a great lunch of roast mutton at the farm I headed into Aberystwyth, where I dropped off the truck and started a new short term contract with a new employer, Hume.
Just what is it with the Welsh and their veneration of the letter H? One often sees giant white Hs in fields over there. Usually there are two of them. Could they have some kind of Pagan ritual significance?
Anyway, Hume needed me to return to Ireland, so off we set, heading south down the Welsh coast towards Fishguard.
Latent mutton at 2 o'clock!
Now that's a big house.
The great escape.
Got to say that Wales is extremely well done, a most enjoyable drive.
Closing in on Fishguard now.
Overtaken by a speeding lunatic right by the 'Drive Carefully' sign.
The classic Fishguard view.
One bumpy crossing later, we arrive in picturesque Rosslare.
That's it for now, back for another Irish tour soon.
Cheers!!
Henri
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