I've just got back from an epic roadtrip around Europe and Tunisia and thought I'd share the best bits with you. In total we clocked up 15,000 miles over 4 months with a total of, wait for it....... ZERO breakdowns. Who ever said minis were unreliable?
Our route went something like this:
Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Tunisia, back up through Italy, France and finally home!
Here is our trusty steed, Harry, as he became known:
*A few people having been asking for more details. He is a 1983 mini city e. It is still the original 998 and had done about 40,000 miles before leaving. Best of all I bought him when I was 15 for £50!
Europe:
At the transfagarasan pass in Romania. The road was closed at the time but we managed to get half way up before being blocked by a snow drift
Ok, well maybe my 'zero breakdowns' wasn't very accurate, Harry needed constant tinkering and maintenance along the way.
The Tatra mountains in northern Slovakia
Turkey:
At Cappadocia,
Southern Turkey
Greece:
Epic scenery at Meteora
Have you ever seen water like this???? Lefkada
Up the adriatic coast
Gulp. Here we go....
Parking, Albanian style.
The reception area of a Bosnian camp site, complete with rifle and mortars.....
From here we drove down through Italy stopping off at the usual sights before catching a ferry to Tunis
Tunisia:
Camping in the middle of nowhere
The road down to the desert
Predictably we got stuck as soon as the sand started...
At a dried out salt lake
The best part of the trip was always the reaction the mini got. In almost every country we went to people would wave, thumbs up and take photos. It is a universal truth that everyone, even if they don't know what the car is, loves minis!
By popular demand here is a link to a photobucket album with more pictures:
http://s645.photobuc...mview=slideshow
Update! Thought I'd put up this video which I bodged together for a bit of fun:
Edited by fred8601, 30 August 2012 - 11:50 AM.
