Okey-dokey.... we've left beautiful snowy mountainous Austria behind us (along with N Italy and the Czech Republic/Bratislava part of the original map) and our quest to see everything from SCS's original offering is now taking us to the Midlands, Wales and the North of England. Yep, part 7 of this tour is returning to one of people's least favourite parts of the map.
The supposed time is mid-to-late February... Spring is in the air, but for the most part really only in the air as we head towards the North.
The weather was lovely in Swansea when we kicked the tyres and lit the fyres. Great paint job from SCS!
The blue skies didn't last long but even so, after all the monochrome snow-caked scenery of the last month or so Grimes's Mild Winter mod on a misty moisty morning still looks like a riot of colour. Heading north-west through Wales to Birmingham.
Getting dark... you can really feel the difference in scale in the UK sometimes, it took longer than I expected to make this first trip.
Gor blimey, dark already?
Birmingham. Reeks of vanillin, and looks nothing like the real city, but we're pleased to see it. Damn. Crufts isn't till March.
Next day we're wending our way through the Midlands and up to Grimsby.
I wonder why they called it Grim-sby?
Lush, mate.
Ooof... can my eyes handle this much dismal? It's Grim Up North, they say, and I have a feeling this stage of
my tour is going to prove "them" right.
I don't feel mentally ready to venture further North just yet, so we head back Dahn Saath to Cambridge, where we were in the autumn.
Apparently it's been quite nice there for weeks.
Careful! When my son was about 8 we went for a drive in the XF. He just loved the three windscreen wipers. Makes it look like a real monster, a powerhouse. When we changed to an old Mercedes Actros he was like "What IS this junk. It's pathetic. It's only got two wipers."
Down town, da da da daa da da.
Oh, Cambridge!
Cambridge. Where the soft lads go to uni.
Cheers!
Krigl