I did a 'Ramblings across America' last year; and many among seemed to like it. But this year our rambling is being done in the UK; from the Orkney Islands down to London.

Hardly suitable material for a web-site dedicated to hot-rods!

But...if enough of you (and Mrmustang too of course!) want it I'll post it.
Hey: it's going to be written anyway!

So here goes the first installment:

Monday 9th May.
Fired up the Calais and in to Rawcliffes' New Plymouth around 8:30. Cuppa coffee and a yarn, and then we took them out out N P airport, where we caught an Air NZ plane for Auckland, and they drove our Calais back to their place to look after it for us for the next five weeks while we gallivant over Scotland and the U K.
Arrived Auckland with a couple of hours to spare, had a munchie, and jumped on a Cathay Pacific plane for Hong Kong. Their Premium economy seats are ratchet, one step up from cattle class; whereas Air NZ's premium economy are one step down...a world of difference.
At HK it was all go to catch a bus to catch the plane (Cathay Pacific again,) to fly us to Heathrow. There was panic to get to it; bur then we spent two hours sitting on the tarmac at HK..."No air space available," our pilot told us.
That two hour delay exacerbated things at Heathrow; it was again a mad scramble to get to the plane that was to fly us to Glasgow. But we made it...just
So arrived in Glasgow on Tuesday the 10th May after nearly forty hours getting here.
We were met by Rosie's cousin Jane and her husband James; (bloody fine people,) who took us to a flash pub for a slap up meal.All good...except we're both absolutely shattered: and to top it off my bloody computer started playing silly games.
Gave up in the finish: this pooter is no longer on Yahoo...it's on Firefox. I just couldn't get Yahoo to work.
So here I am, started on the pooter at around 3 o'clock; put first words to paper at around 5:30.
And after about forty hours with minimal sleep I AM NOT A HAPPY CAMPER.
A beer, a feed, and bed!

jb and She.