One less syncro in Ireland

Post by **syncropaddy** » 27 May 2006, 19:24

Macflai heads off to travel around Europe and leaves Ireland behind. Lucky Bas**rd. Good luck Victor and keep in touch

Post by **Cate** » 27 May 2006, 19:28

He's off tomorrow isn't he? In case he doesn't get on tonight wish him all the best from me and hope we can speak again soon. (Hope the van gets there ok

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Post by **Macflai** » 27 May 2006, 21:50

Yeh, I am the b*stard who leaves this place... I will try to update my albums as soon as possible and I will try to visit VW friends in UK, Germany and Switzerland... Sure I will take a lot of pics and we can enjoy them!

Thx for your wishes!

Post by **Aidan** » 28 May 2006, 18:26

enjoy

Post by **oorwullie** » 29 May 2006, 10:12

Post by **airhead** » 30 May 2006, 12:00

Best of luck on your travels, Victor! Keep us informed!

Post by **Boltze** » 06 Jun 2006, 21:27

Here some pictures of our syncro meeting in Bining (France) last weekend. Victor joined us

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Now they're on the way from France to Germany to Stuttgart and Munich.

Here all pictures of the meeting: http://vwpix.terlinden.com/~boltze/pict ... sten_2006/

Post by **airhead** » 07 Jun 2006, 00:42

Nice one!

Keep us all informed Victor!

Post by **Macflai** » 18 Jun 2006, 13:16

Hey!

Thanks Christoph about the pics! I really enjoyed there! Nice to see many different machines based on the T3!

Now I am in Spain mainland in Burgos, the north of Spain with some members of my family... Next 24th I go to Sevilla because my girlfriend goes to Canary Islands by plane and I will stay in the south of the country until 30th June to leave the van in the Cadiz Port and then I go by bus to Sevilla Airport to fly to my place in the Canaries!!

I will update the albums from yahoo at home!

Thanks everybody for helping me... The van runs really okay... 12000 kilometres from home to Ireland and the rest of Europe with only a few minor problems like some broken water hoses and some oil changes (3)...

Hugs!

Post by **syncropaddy** » 18 Jun 2006, 13:42

Good on you Victor. Its been really hot here these last two weeks. Finally got the old Caravelle chopped up and dumped. Wont make it to SP3 as Im too busy with work. Update the pics for us .....

Post by **Cate** » 18 Jun 2006, 14:16

Hey Victor, glad you've got that far without serious problems. Well done, travel safe. x

Post by **Macflai** » 18 Jun 2006, 15:32

Only things wrong were the fridge was not working exactly well with a failure in the alternator... It was working better with the gas mode... I never used the 220v so I don't know about it...

Post by **airhead** » 22 Jun 2006, 00:23

Fair play to you Victor! Glad youre getting on well. I knew your van wasnt going to give problems. Its well loved and looked after! 3 oil changes in 12000km says it all really. So any good stories to tell about the trip??

Post by **Macflai** » 25 Jun 2006, 16:30

Yeh,
In Austria a higway patrol stopped us asking about the "vignette", something like a sticker you have to pay to drive on the highways...
He told us: haven't you seen a big sign in english german and french about you have to pay for it? We never saw the f*cking sign and we had to pay more than 100€!

And driving in Switzerland a speed camera patrol stopped us because we were driving 65 kms/h on a 60 kms/h road... 25€ more...

About a garage in a small village in Switzerland to fix our VC... I have never seen a guy like that... he was the owner... Sure he is a nice mechanic or something like that, but he doesn't know nothing about behaviour... always nervous and treating me badly "you have to uninstall the old VC and then you pay me 449€ for the new one!" I was asking about refilling because ha has refilled VC's and he answered me "forget forget!!!"... no more comments, I didn't fix the VC, I prefer to spend my money through another shop, a better qualified shop about customers "treatment"...

Post by **HarryMann** » 25 Jun 2006, 18:52

Switzerland, eh? Not one of the Dorfbrunnen family clan!
Sounded like a good deal to me, 449 Euros