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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 12, 2018 14:07:52 GMT
A bit o/t but following on from previous, I'm in Bamberg today. A world heritage site, with some stunning architecture, and quite pretty  The beer here is smoked (no, not like that you fules), and the weather here is hot enough to make it palatable. It's a hard life... |
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Post by Humph on Sept 12, 2018 14:57:33 GMT
Very pretty. Makes me wonder why someone thought it was a good idea to build that house there though. Must be quite a challenge for the window cleaner.
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 12, 2018 16:12:01 GMT
The windows get washed regularly without any intervention from a window cleaner..
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Post by WDB on Sept 12, 2018 17:16:25 GMT
Probably has those clever German hinges that let you flip the glass over to clean it from the inside. They were invented by Martin Luther in 1472.
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Post by Humph on Sept 12, 2018 18:03:52 GMT
Didn’t know he was a window cleaner.
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 12, 2018 18:21:00 GMT
I think he takes some of the blame for the second defenestration of Prague, though.....
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 19, 2018 18:29:03 GMT
...referring back to my post about cars above, and particularly the Citroen, this is the one in question...  ...A Traction Avant "Familiale" I think, supposedly with up to 9 seats, but it only had one visible row in the back, which had legroom to die for. I desperately wanted to drive away with it. I think someone had chopped the back off the Goggomobile and bolted it on...   |
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Post by tyrednexited on Feb 20, 2019 22:22:33 GMT
Referring back to my hydraulic brake problems....: Given that the rear brakes have been working, but less convincingly than I would like, I'd bought a "bleed kit" some time ago, and finally got round to using it yesterday. (Rather a lot has got in the way since the issue arose). Frankly, it was rather easier than I expected (and therefore, I fully expect to be repaeting the process again, shortly  ). However, I've certainly (visibly) managed to remove air from the system, and at the moment, without any extended use, the lever is much more positive. The complete kit is going in the back of the motorcaravan, however....... |
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Post by Humph on Feb 21, 2019 11:32:25 GMT
Where are you off to this time?
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Post by tyrednexited on Feb 21, 2019 11:50:36 GMT
...nothing planned at the moment, Humph. With two long breaks in NZ last year, on top of our habitual European journeying, there's rather a lot of "administration" to catch up with. Sitting around waiting for people to come round and quote for works, and much catching up on long-forgotten friends and family is rather impinging on time. We will get some short breaks in in the near future (Lake District next week is a possibility depending on circumstances), but the last sentence of my post refers to the fact that, having proven to myself that I can relatively easily improve the braking performance, I'm going to make sure I carry the capability with me! Without wanting to divert the thread, our motorhoming plans for this year will be rather caught up in the Brexit outcome, though we don't usually book anything up until after the current deadline anyway, so it's not disruptive, yet. (Being an optimist, my passport is currently in for renewal - I'd like to keep my red one ) |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 12:11:26 GMT
My friends who are retired and live in a motorhome will be leaving for Europe shortly and sent me this the other day:
"The complications are greater for us as we are going before the 29th and don’t plan on coming back until afterwards. Therefore we have to assume the worst which as we found out this week actually means the following for us: -
• Green Card for the motorhome - not an issue, although needed to pay £20 for the privilege as it isn’t a legal requirement yet.
• International Driving Permits (IDP) - we needed two each @ £5.50 each ◦ 1949 - covers Spain, Ireland, Malta, Cyprus and Iceland
◦ 1968 - covers pretty much everywhere else
• Maximum of 90 days out of 180 days travel in Europe without a visa
Well, that makes our life interesting..... Green card is fine although we would need a new one sent out to us when our Insurance runs out in May. The maximum of 90 days travel in every 180 days will be interesting if it happens but we can deal with it if necessary, just means we will be back in the UK a bit more or possibly get a visa. However the Driving Licence for Spain is a bit of a nightmare. If there is a ‘No Deal’ and everything stays as it is currently, we will not be able to drive our motorhome on our standard licence after the end of March in Spain as the IDP 1949 doesn’t allow us to drive anything over 3.5 tonne as it is so old, not breaking the categories down on the driving license in the same way. Therefore if we want to drive anything over 3.5 tonne in Spain we would need to do our Class C license which enables you to drive anything static (not arctic) up to 32 tonne..... this would have been the same for our old motorhome as she was 3.85 tonne."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 9:49:01 GMT
What a nightmare.
However I do not understand the need for an IDP? Everyone knows what a driving licence looks like. When I go to the USA or Israel, no one asks for an IDP, they just look at my UK one.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 11:43:07 GMT
Tell that to the French Police when they pull you over on British plates after Brexit. No Deal means No Deal. Or, as I have heared it called recently, in the vein of "Norway option", "Canada option" etc - the Venezuela option.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 15:04:30 GMT
>>However I do not understand the need for an IDP?
Mostly language I think.
The law in Chile, for example, is that a tourist may drive on their home country licence, but if that licence is not in Spanish then either an IDP or a notarised translation must also be carried.
I guess from the days when there was a lot more text involved than there is now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2019 8:27:39 GMT
>>> Tell that to the French Police when they pull you over on British plates after Brexit.
Reminds me of arriving in Heathrow in about 1982 with some Israeli cousins. Their driving licence was in Hebrew and French but did not have any English on it. The very 'up his own backside' rental clerk at Avis refused to accept teh licence until he looked more closely and said "Ah yes, I can see the French" and then proceeded to read it out in an accent that would make Officer Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo blush with embarrasment.
In this day and age with universal credit card sized licences using internationally understood symbols, the need for piece of cardboard to prove you can drive overseas is rather infradig.
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