And now for something completely different...
Somehow we managed to find a few spare moments for some light-hearted laughs and a quickie home movie or two.
If (that's a big if) you have sufficient bandwidth to download and play movies, you might enjoy these fairly short two video clips from our recent trips about the countryside. Otherwise ignore these files as they are very, very large. (22 seconds and 44 seconds)
Rambling in the forest
and
Driving with Mr. D
Somehow we managed to find a few spare moments for some light-hearted laughs and a quickie home movie or two.
If (that's a big if) you have sufficient bandwidth to download and play movies, you might enjoy these fairly short two video clips from our recent trips about the countryside. Otherwise ignore these files as they are very, very large. (22 seconds and 44 seconds)
Rambling in the forest
and
Driving with Mr. D
posted by Darryl B. at 6:52 AM
9 Comments:
cute... very cute... so, was the car manual or auto?
Are you kidding, automatic is the only thing safe for me to drive. On our very first trip to the UK, I rented a manual transmission and found myself grabbing the door knob everytime I needed to shift... which was quite often.
I can't wait to return the car, there are smallish scrapes on three out of four corners.
I still have nightmares about driving in England. I never brought a rental car back without a missing or damaged Claude glass ( rear-view mirror) and lots of scrapes along the sides. I have learned to take out the full comprehensive insurance, even though it costs an arm and a leg. I also have learned to tape an arrow pointing left on the inside of my front windshield, so that in a confusing emergency, I always know which side of the road to go to. The arrow perplexes the natives, but it works like a dream - not a nightmare.
This is great....your grandchildren really enjoyed seeing and hearing you!
That was really fun to watch, loved the circus music you added to the rambling movie bit, very cute.
Ha, the grandchildren were lucky Grandma cleaned up the driver's language.
It was fun being able to include the music from the opening credits of Monty Python's Flying Circus. That's Sousza's Liberty Bell March.
Tomorrow we'll do something fun to bring a little closure... stay tuned.
Funny enough, when I heard the opening music for Monty Python, I thought a knight would be coming out of the shrubbery...
I am so very glad I am not the one driving. It was harrowing enough being on the coach and going down those very narrow roads.
Take care.
Thank god your not driving one of those hometown 70's Buicks. A good chunk of cold blue steel from Michigan would be left in various locals along the way. But one thing for sure .....you wouldn't have to back up.
Cheek
Ha ha, aren't many full-size cars around these parts. An occasional Land Rover, not like the American version where drivers drive around a mud puddle, these are pretty serious and most often found on farms.
I'm driving a Ford Focus, and its ok, but those lovely Audi and Mercedes keep buzzing past me on the M1 and M4 motorways. English motorways seems quite a lot like the German autobahn. Not many people ever stay in the "fast lane."
Funny thing, there are more Morris Minis in Fenton, Michigan than I've seen in England. What's up with that? Also, there are at least five versions of Honda here we don't have in the states... A four door station wagon Civic, an Accord turbo diesel, a "Jazz" mini-mini van, A Honda HRV (a mini SUV), and sports car I only saw once. The HRV was wonderful as was the Civic and the Accord. Why don't we have these cars in the USA?
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