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Post by Humph on Jun 6, 2018 20:32:07 GMT
In Poland at the mo. Started in Krakow and finished the day in Gnieso.
Got a Clio estate renter. Started off quite liking it this morning, it’s some kind of small diesel probably a 1.5 ? Quite well equipped and drives ok but runs out of puff on the motorway. It’s a manual which is fine but I was getting bored with stick stirring by tonight. Still has winter tyres on it which are a bit noisy. Quite a nice metallic red.
But I think I’ve discovered a new medical phenomenon. It’s called Clio bum, the symptoms sort of creep up on you, starting with mild discomfort, moving into actual pain followed by total rigor mortis of the arse.
I walked into my hotel as if I was doing a very bad impression of a cowboy after a recent and botched vasectomy.
Two more days to go...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 2:19:13 GMT
I'm back in Israel for one day for the wedding of the son of a close friend. I have a Chevrolet Spark which is pretty basic and this particular car smells of cigarette smoke. However it is surprisingly comfortable and peppy for what I assume is a small engined automatic. Wonder if there is a turbo attached?
Will discover more when I wake up.....
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Post by dixinormus on Jun 7, 2018 3:44:24 GMT
Had a Corolla for the day today. Hard to fault the Corolla really, they are all 1.8 petrol automatic over here, peppy but economical. Just can't quite picture buying one with my own money though.
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Post by WDB on Jun 7, 2018 5:47:09 GMT
Similarly, this week I’m in an Ibis hotel, with office buildings, car dealers (Opel) and a Burger King for neighbours. The usual, nicer place that offers drinking and dining choices is full, as is the second-choice across the road. But there’s not too much actually wrong with this place. It’s reasonably quiet and cool, the shower works well enough and the bed is surprisingly comfortable. There’s even a safe that’s almost big enough for my laptop; don’t get that at the Holiday Inn Express. But - as, I imagine in a Corolla - I’m surrounded by someone else’s idea of ‘that’ll do’. I’m here because I have to be, and nothing here will surprise or delight. What Norm’s Corolla probably doesn’t have is an infestation of elderly Spanish tourists. They crowd the lobby and gather in clumps around the poorly laid-out breakfast buffet, even first thing yesterday when I had to get out early for my train to Brussels. The hotel is clearly used to this, as many of the signs are repeated in Spanish, and I don’t think that’s been a regular thing in these parts for about 400 years.
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Post by lygonos on Jun 7, 2018 14:05:59 GMT
We stayed in an Ibis hotel in Carcassonne last autumn.
Had a trellis over the little sitting area outside the room with a vine growing over it.
Who knew Kiwi fruit grew on vines?!
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Post by tyrednexited on Jun 7, 2018 20:44:33 GMT
We stayed in an Ibis hotel... Generally termed 'The Abyss Hotel' by work colleagues in the past.....
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Post by WDB on Jun 7, 2018 20:54:55 GMT
This one at least doesn't have the rock-hard mattresses I've failed to sleep on at Ibises elsewhere, notably Greenwich some years ago.
But this one is a red Ibis. There's now a blue 'Ibis Budget' brand, a thought that makes me shudder. Reports from my colleagues suggest it's trying to compete with the bizarrely basic French B&B chain, where we learned the answer to the old question, "Why pay more?"
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Post by lygonos on Jun 8, 2018 0:13:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2018 1:08:40 GMT
I'm back in Israel for one day for the wedding of the son of a close friend. I have a Chevrolet Spark which is pretty basic and this particular car smells of cigarette smoke. However it is surprisingly comfortable and peppy for what I assume is a small engined automatic. Wonder if there is a turbo attached? Will discover more when I wake up..... Having woken up and emerged into daylight, I discovered a small car with just Drive and Low forward gears. Acceleration from a standstill is adequate but only once the car is moving. Getting it moving is a challenge especially at roundabouts. I couldn't be bothered the lift the bonnet so have no idea if there is a turbo. However I'm not overly impressed. Thank
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Post by WDB on Jun 8, 2018 10:18:13 GMT
Ah, you should have mentioned that earlier. That's an Ibis Styles, the green one. I've not stayed in one but I imagine it fills the wafer-thin gap between a red Ibis and a Mercure; perhaps you get tissues, a kettle (15€ extra for one of those at the Red) and a real glass instead of a wrapped splitty plastic one. But perhaps not the extra towels and the shower cap. If you're wondering what happened to the people who used to define the difference between a Sierra L and a GL, they're working in the hotel business.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jun 8, 2018 20:17:01 GMT
.... what happened to the people who used to define the difference between a Sierra L and a GL.... ...but such distinctions are important. My first company car was a Sierra GL......it was the proles what got the L 🙄
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Post by WDB on Jun 8, 2018 20:47:37 GMT
And the GL had what? More push buttons on the radio and chrome inserts on the window winders?
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Post by Rob on Jun 8, 2018 22:13:07 GMT
And was a GLS/GL or SRi better? The latter based on an LS/L.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jun 9, 2018 6:39:46 GMT
...that indefinable aura of superiority (it's applied as the final coat in the spray booth) 😎
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Post by WDB on Jun 9, 2018 7:03:07 GMT
Come to think of it, it probably had a rev counter too. Or did you have to buy the Ghia for that?
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