The view from my "office"

Cossie · Apr 21, 2023

There was also a very moving tribute to Irish driver Craig Breen who unfortunately lost his life in a testing accident last week.

Flashback · Apr 21, 2023

The view from our Tel Aviv office. Interesting border crossing from Jordan to Palestine to Israel... our Uber from Amman stopped half way and said he wasn't licensed to drop us there... oops! Guy was nice though, ordered us a yellow taxi and waited till it arrived. Worked out cheaper overall too, so ha, win! 4.5 hours door to door, not bad, quicker than flying the 20 minute flight once you add on transport etc.

Not a car park.. but a highway.

The joys of the King Hussein Bridge border crossing, organised chaos!

The bus from the Israeli side that then drops you.... not quite in town

RooFlyer · Apr 21, 2023

Cossie said:
Croatia WRC event MSport Ford team visit. Then to talk to Oliver Solberg, his father Petter was also there.

That's a nifty inflatable 'shed' they use. I guess common in motorsport going from place to splace?

ellen10 · Apr 21, 2023

@Matt_01 we were there in March, we were meant to drive highway 5 from Napier to Rotorua but it was closed. They said it would not be opened for 6 months. Is it now opened? We had to change plans, fly to Auckland, hire a car and drive south.
Thé town of Napier was really suffering with very few tourists. Such awful devastation in the area.

Cossie · Apr 21, 2023

RooFlyer said:
That's a nifty inflatable 'shed' they use. I guess common in motorsport going from place to splace?

It used to be the norm, but the other 2 teams have much bigger units, it takes the Hyundai team 1 week each to build and then remove theirs, MSport/Ford runs very much on a shoestring compared to Toyota and Hyundai.

Toyota service park yesterday and 6:15 driving to the first special stage on the bus, ipad photo doesn’t do it justice,

OATEK · Apr 21, 2023

To Honfleur from Gare St Lazare.

drron · Apr 21, 2023

Mount Etna with snow.

Matt_01 · Apr 21, 2023

ellen10 said:
@Matt_01 we were there in March, we were meant to drive highway 5 from Napier to Rotorua but it was closed. They said it would not be opened for 6 months. Is it now opened? We had to change plans, fly to Auckland, hire a car and drive south.
Thé town of Napier was really suffering with very few tourists. Such awful devastation in the area.

It is open now. The lady at the winery informed us it had only been opened for evening/ night usage a couple of weeks ago. About a third to half the distance between Napier and Taupō it is slow going and the speed limit is reduced to 30km at various points along the drive depending on the damage. Also there are a number of sections where temporary traffic lights have been set up as the damage reduced the road to 1 lane. Also most of the shoulders have been washed away.

Daver6 · Apr 21, 2023

My Saturday evening office in Singapore A DISTINCTIVE & UNFORGETTABLE WHISKEY ADVENTURE If you're a whiskey nerd and like jazz, this is the place for you! Might need to flog a kidney for some of the whiskeys though.

Flashback · Apr 21, 2023

Daver6 said:
My Saturday evening office in Singapore A DISTINCTIVE & UNFORGETTABLE WHISKEY ADVENTURE If you're a whiskey nerd and like jazz, this is the place for you! Might need to flog a kidney for some of the whiskeys though.

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One too many? It's Friday where I am...

It seems the hotel breakfast buffet has bubbles included in Tel Aviv, would be rude not to

Guvner · Apr 21, 2023

I'm no whiskey expert, but I'd have thought storing bottles under bright lights would not be conducive to the quality being maintained.

Ade · Apr 21, 2023

Guvner said:
I'm no whiskey expert, but I'd have thought storing bottles under bright lights would not be conducive to the quality being maintained.

Would be great if you expand on this please? Someone asked me about storing Whiskeys.

Happy for it to be on PM, so as to say OT for this thread.

mrs.dr.ron · Apr 21, 2023

Mount Etna. From the Silver Moon ⛴

Daver6 · Apr 21, 2023

Flashback said:
One too many? It's Friday where I am...

Time travel

More seriously, was last Sat night. Forgot to post it.

Guvner said:
I'm no whiskey expert, but I'd have thought storing bottles under bright lights would not be conducive to the quality being maintained.

I'm probably less of a whiskey expert than you. I just presumed whiskey isn't light sensitive, but who knows. I just went a Martini and some craft beers. We were really there for the music.

The venue is actually at the Vagabond hotel which is a Marriot Tribute hotel.

OATEK · Apr 21, 2023

Honfleur, Normandie

Guvner · Apr 21, 2023

Ade said:
Would be great if you expand on this please? Someone asked me about storing Whiskeys.

Happy for it to be on PM, so as to say OT for this thread.

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