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| Torrential Downpour! | Posted on 31/10/2003 at 10:36 GMT |
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Disaster! The weather in Italy is less than clement - and when you're dealing with Gina thats very very important. We're currently just outside of Parma. Last night after the Fejus Tunnel went well - until we reached the outskirts of Turin at about 1am - when we realised how ridiculously bad Italian roadsigns are. Attempting to take the ring road round Turin to the south - we ended up in the centre of Turin itself. Let me tell you, there don't appear to be many rules that Italian drivers adhere to. Its lucky it was only 1am, as any other time we would have our work cut out avoiding italian drivers who think red means green, left means right, and where cutting inches in front of your car for no apparent reason is obviously regarded here as a polite way to greet you to their city. The roadsigns in Turin were even worse than on the motorway - and we were lost in the town for a while. Suddenly, Mark noticed two women and thought we should ask for directions. This was a bad idea for 2 reasons: 1) We don't speak Italian, so wouldn't understand anyway 2) Two women, standing on a street corner at 1am dressed in hotpants, fishnets, stilettos, and pretty much half naked are obviously prostitutes. Mark would have received quite a different set of directions... We finally made it out - and now find ourselves only about 120Km short of Imola - our goal. The problem is that we're in the middle of a torrential downpour and can hardly see the road, let alone deal with the river that's pouring into the car from the engine compartment onto our feet and deal with stupidly arsey truck drivers. We managed to solve the problem of misfires caused by water pouring into the engine by wrapping the distributor in a black bin liner and then wrapping it mummy-style with gaffer tape. Its worked so far - lets hope we make it! Pictures to follow soon... |
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| Comment by Burky | Posted on 31/10/2003 at 10:42 GMT |
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Someone should make a film about this, let's think of a name, ermmmmmm.... |
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| Comment by mongfongdongschlong | Posted on 31/10/2003 at 10:45 GMT |
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Are you sure they were ladies of the night? More like ladyboys of the night knowing you lot!! Did you get your engine serviced? Fnnar, fnnar. Why don't you wrap the whole car in a big black bin liner. Probably work a lot better. Cheers for the update. |
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| Comment by mini30 cock | Posted on 31/10/2003 at 10:47 GMT |
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Mark says do you need a Mini30 cock and ball socket? |
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| Comment by Rich | Posted on 31/10/2003 at 11:13 GMT |
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erm. no thanks, but an umbrella would be nice. |
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| Comment by Ian | Posted on 31/10/2003 at 16:28 GMT |
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So... Its going well then :) |
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| Comment by Woof | Posted on 03/11/2003 at 10:51 GMT |
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Now remember lads - you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! ;) |
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