One Epic Euro Road-Trip - Full Report

[Gray]

ABSOLUTELY amazing trip guys... Some great moments, epic sights blah blah... Well I guess what I am trying to say is... Same again next year? OHHH YYYEEEEESSS!!

Big thanks to Dave for organising the trip, Chief holiday rep

And to Neil for getting us the 'ring passes.

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Just read it now and watched the video's. Looked Awesome!

A must for next year!

 

[chrispy.clio]

I read it this morning.

Sounded like such an amazing time.

Jelous!!!!

 

[Slammed172]

One of the best threads (visually) i've ever seen on this forum.

Excellent cars, photography and trip. Good stuff

What he said. Wow.

Videos are quality too. Bombers car ain't shy is it.

 

[Gray]

Thats only a very small selection of the photos.. Top credit to Dan and his photography skills!

 

[Rob]

I need to look at these when my boss isn't in the room, I can get away with the forum with no pics as it looks like it could be work, but 100,000 pics of clio's? I don't think I can swing it...

I'll reserve comment until then, but after speaking to Neil at FCS, can I come next year? Please? (I'm SRS)

 

[Hixle]

Fantastic pictures/write up Dan!

Looks like an awesome trip, would love to do something like this!

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

can I come next year? Please? (I'm SRS)

Thanks for the comments

I really hope we do something like this next year, but one thing we quickly realised is that you couldn't make it work with loads of cars.

There was originally 6 cars down for the trip, and we thought that would be a handful - 4 was much better. I would say that would be the limit, any more and it just becomes a nightmare to organise everything - even keeping together on the motorways lol!

We'll see what happens next year

 

[The Boosh!]

I'm bringing my car next year...Passenger wasn'tas good! Will show Gray how to drive...

 

[Melissa]

Epic sums it up! I am so so so JEALOUS!! Looks like you guys had an awesome time and some awesome pics to add the story up and to remember it by. One day 'hopefully' i'll find a bunch of idiots to let me tag along with them

 

[Gray]

I'm bringing my car next year...Passenger wasn'tas good! Will show Gray how to drive...

pppffrrrrtt you wish you had 10% of my talent

as said above anymore than 4 cars would be OTT.. Was hard enough keeping us together lol! "go go go.. Overtake, the road is clear" hahaa

ohh Dan btw, what do you want to do about walkie talkie monies?!

 

[Beef-Mc]

Looks like a cracking trip, looks like something everyone should do.

 

[Rob]

Just sat and went through it, only one word for it: Brilliant.

Me and a few friends want to do something similar, but they're an unorganised bunch, so I may be better to set it up with some of those who are keen from CS

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

lol, yeh we had enough brown pants moments with 4 cars, any more would be trouble!

Gray - Don't worry about it mate. Give it to me on the next trip next year

Just sat and went through it, only one word for it: Brilliant.

Me and a few friends want to do something similar, but they're an unorganised bunch, so I may be better to set it up with some of those who are keen from CS

That's a recipe for disaster mate. Fair play to Dave, he spent weeks preparing the route, and booking all the camp sites etc. Proper holiday rep

 

[Nafoff]

lol, yeh we had enough brown pants moments with 4 cars, any more would be trouble!

volvo's...what volvos...lol

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

lol that was quality, proper showed that c0ck up!

 

[saltyhair81]

rofl.

fantastic writeup and looks a blast and a half

 

[DB.]

Awesome write up

 

[yellowbelly]

That looks like an immense trip guys, some AMAZING photography there.
I would really love to do this, me and my mates talked about doing this a few years back but at the time a few of us had just bought our house, others had car issues so it never happened

oh and btw its either Bruges or Brugge

Looks like Dave had melted a gurt hole in the snow here almost causing a minor avalanche.....

 

[Ganty]

great read.

bet it was awesome

 

[yellowbelly]

can i ask what sort of money it cost each of you from leaving your front door until returning through it?

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

I posted a rough cost earlier, it was in the region of £500-600 for me, but I had no passenger (tears!), so I didnt split all the costs.

But bare in mind we didn't pay for the ring, which would add quite a bit on top of that depending on how many laps you wanted to do.

 

[bomber]

mine works out about £600 too, we ate out quite a bit more than i had planned too tbh.

im lucky that my fuel cost will be halved, but £600 if you were doing it alone, plus ring laps.

we will be defo doing something next year again, its too epic not too!

REMEMBER GUYS, IT WILL BE FEATURED IN FASTCAR MAGAZINE FOR EVEN MORE DETAILS OF THE TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Nafoff]

good mention bomber....INDEED IT WILL BE IN FASTCAR

i haven't looked at my account yet..i'm scared.... ITB's + petrol === a big credit card balance...lol

 

[bomber]

just read the last bit Dan, we were sat in the traffic after that junction. despite getting the ferry 2 hours earlier, we got home 15 minutes after you lol

 

[adam172]

looks epic would love to do something like this one day!!!! nice write up cant wait to see this in FC!!

 

[DrewHughes]

read all the way through, and watched all the video's

Thats was a f00king epic trip!!!!!!!!

I must do this!

 

[jenic]

Looks like a great trip, nice write up

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

just read the last bit Dan, we were sat in the traffic after that junction. despite getting the ferry 2 hours earlier, we got home 15 minutes after you lol

lol, so just as well I missed the ferry then! I was debating just staying on the motorway hoping it would clear, but I'm glad I got off!
I past over the motorway and got a view of the incident, loads of police cars etc and a helicopter, so must have been pretty serious

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

I've just uploaded another video, it's the same video of us going up the Stelvio Pass, but I've added Neil's footage to make a PiP video.

It's not long finished so the quality will improve at some point.

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[Guppy]

You has some skillzzzz, Dan!

Awesome being able to watch the vids back

MEMORIES........

 

[The Boosh!]

That time lapse is awesome.

 

[Richyy182]

awesome!!!! very jealous

 

[Adey.]

awesome lads awesome, i was so tempted to call in work when i saw bomber just before you left, woulda been a great trip. next time ill be there. nice write up and some excelent pics

 

[v15ben]

Awesome trip, similar to where we went last summer except our night out was in Brussels! We even did the same mileage pretty much, spooky! Awesome roads, awesome shots and wish I could afford to go again, NOW!

 

[Nafoff]

my t'internets not quick enough to watch that vid...doh...
will watch it at work in the morning

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Thanks guys

PM me your work address too please Neil.

 

[Sheilas’ Wheels]

Speechless!!

(And really jealous! Fcuking honeymoons! )

 

[Tom@JMS]

Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

 

[Jamie86]

Brilliant read, fair play guys for doing something we all talk about and most never get round too!