One of the benefits I receive as a failed and near geriatric international businessman is the exotic machinery that I receive as rental cars as a Holiday Autos Preferred customer. Luckily Mrs N arranged the car rental this year and picked me up at Athens Airport in a Fiat Panda. James May (Top Gear presenter a.k.a Captain Slow) an avid Panda fan states "The one I use the most is my Fiat Panda. If I could have only one [car], I
would say my Fiat Panda, though I also have a Porsche 911 and a
Rolls-Royce."
As it is now late we stay at the Holiday Inn next to a petrol station and are entertained by Boris Johnson (Mayor of London) speaking French.
The next morning we head off under blue skies and a fair wind to Πελοπόννησος.
Soon at Argos we stop at Lidl to load up with essential cat food provisions for the coming week.
We arrive at the village.
In the next episode candles are burnt at all ends and I discover a scorpion familly in the cellar.
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| Mrs N figuring out where the starting handle is or is it the boot release? |
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| Fantastic view from the hotel window of the spectacular Mount Hymettus where in antiquity there was a sanctuary to Zeus Ombrios (Zeus the Rain God) |
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| Fantastic view on the hotel TV of the spectacular clown Boris Johnson Mayor of London speaking French |
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| We drive on the Αττική Οδός passing through the new Arc d'Austerity - a touching tribute to Angela Merkel who will be sending Tornado fighter bombers over to Greece soon with dispensing cannisters stuffed with €50 bank notes |
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| Grim discovery that a Lidl shopping trolley is bigger than a Fiat Panda |
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| We are greeted by the cheese maker George who in a former life worked as an RAC patrolman on the A33 Winchester bypass. |
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| Mrs N's village house has been overwhelmened by a giant spider |
HAhaah again a nice blog ;O) especially the story with the spider ;O)
ReplyDeleteThe rage of the scorpions comes next....
DeleteThe shopping trolley was bigger than the boot, now that is funny.
ReplyDeleteMy wife/life is full of such amusements!
DeleteIt does look like a James May type of car but smaller than the shopping cart?
ReplyDeletePut it into perspective, Italian car, German cart.
DeleteHymettus honey is the best in the world, my old hellenophile dad used to say. I thought James May's favourite car was the very excellent Dacia Sandero!! Happy holidays.
ReplyDeleteAre you a member of the DACIA SANDERO owners club too?
DeleteNope, we got a Ford Fusion. Just to annoy Clarkson.
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DeleteHaving consulted my A level Physics book, I would suggest that Clarkson would have gone for the Ford Fision but they didn't hang around very long with a half life of only 24,00,000 years
DeleteI prefer the Cinquecento over the Panda but James May was certainly meant to be ironic or never had to do grocery shopping with a Panda :-)
ReplyDeleteKeep the spider, it will keep the other creepy crawlers away.
Now do you really mean the cute little 500, or the Polish built Cinquecento?
Deletethe original one as unreliable as it was
DeleteNikos:
ReplyDeleteI've always been a fan of the Topolino, they look so curvacious . . . It would feel good to fondle one.
It took me a day or so to get your email from Jon. I thought I had it but it must have disappeared when I changed computers last year. I have an idea for a homemade Wunderwhatever . . .
I rode my "R" to work today and I must be getting used to it "sort of", but it's easier to just "not change lanes"
bob
Riding the Wet Coast
Bob
DeleteThere appear to be 3 dealers in Canada:
http://www.wunderlich.de/haendler/nord-amerika/#c352
Anyway, according to my IAM advanced Training it is only becessary to "consider" signalling - as most car drivers are asleep or texting they would not notice anyway!
Best,
N