WesternEurope2004

THIS TRIP COMPLETED

Actual route was Calais - Rennes - Palamos (via Bordeaux, Tolouse and Perpignan), Andorra, Some place in northern spain, Up through france to Bouillon, Belgium, then Amsterdam & Utrecht, The Netherlands, back to Calais.

On top of a mountain near Figueres, Spain

The car: 1991 Volkswagen Passat estate
Total miles driven: 3,500.
Time taken: 3 weeks.
Car's total mileage at trip's end: ~150,000
Faults while on journey:
Alternator fixing bolt sheared off. Cause: overtightening a month previously. Fix: Cableties ;)

No other problems with the car, so long as you ignore things like leaving the petrol cap on the petrol flap and it falling off at 80mph somewhere in southern france, reversing off a 4 foot concrete wall at a campsite, almost crushing a person sleeping in their tent and the obligatory near death experiences on french city ring roads.

Route taken

Black dots on the map are where we stayed for at least one night.

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Trip reports:

WesternEurope2004/Dan

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Pictures:

http://gallery.ivixor.net/westeurope

http://gallery.beefalo.org.uk/summer-2004