tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748920856459488211.post1895033834605833324..comments2023-11-05T08:46:06.975+00:00Comments on IDLE: No Planes, Full Trains and Expensive AutomobilesIdlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16633477263913264410noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748920856459488211.post-79286499213248365522010-04-21T18:51:46.296+01:002010-04-21T18:51:46.296+01:00I loved the story. Very well told. A moment of exo...I loved the story. Very well told. A moment of exotic excitement in my suburban life. Glad you're home safe, Idle.Philipahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440234602399886097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748920856459488211.post-8479220272472384942010-04-19T21:20:08.292+01:002010-04-19T21:20:08.292+01:00For me long drives whether in Europe or America st...For me long drives whether in Europe or America still carry a certain romance and excitement. As for the Liberal bloke...I refuse to acknowledge his existence,works for me.Thudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320037763190473684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748920856459488211.post-51713267926559590882010-04-19T15:14:53.912+01:002010-04-19T15:14:53.912+01:00I have just heard news of a chap who has travelled...I have just heard news of a chap who has travelled from China to the States to Reykjavik to catch a plane to Glasgow. Ironically, Reykjavik airport remains fully open for business - it is upwind of the volcano.Old BEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974090439936326476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748920856459488211.post-23386961721782024712010-04-19T15:08:38.210+01:002010-04-19T15:08:38.210+01:00Good yarn Iders, and well clearly well planned!
M...Good yarn Iders, and well clearly well planned!<br /><br />My business partner bet himself that he couldn't do St Malo to Cannes at an average speed of more than 100 mph! And the same coming back...<br /><br />And he did it too - crazy sod!<br /><br />Your journey was much less wild...Sen. C.R.O'Blenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482646859547203051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748920856459488211.post-1440970806171000152010-04-19T12:39:43.994+01:002010-04-19T12:39:43.994+01:00Nick Clegg for P.M.? Just goes to show that you ca...Nick Clegg for P.M.? Just goes to show that you can sell any thing on T.V. these days.circus monkeyhttp://circusmonkeysmirror.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748920856459488211.post-44088905066181021982010-04-19T12:35:15.156+01:002010-04-19T12:35:15.156+01:00Spend a few days each year in Monaco. Ma Quango li...Spend a few days each year in Monaco. Ma Quango lives there. <br />Well, sort of lives there..she doesn't live anywhere at all really...The expenses is staggering. Thanks for that devaluation Mr Brown. That and the ash cloud must be inflating the price of Cornwall holidays to Riviera prices.<br /><br />Like to travel into Italy for a few days and as Nomad says, back into France for Villefranche and Eze and so on. <br /><br />Trouble is have the kids and have to drive those superb Italian job roads in a Renault Jumbo 7 seater with Hannah Montana and wheels on the bus playing.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748920856459488211.post-22528392418622328822010-04-19T11:04:45.704+01:002010-04-19T11:04:45.704+01:00Nomad's right. There you were, Idle, displayi...Nomad's right. There you were, Idle, displaying initiative instead of slipping up the coast towards Italy and the gardens in late April, till the Cloud lifted.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748920856459488211.post-35239550805027919562010-04-19T09:00:43.936+01:002010-04-19T09:00:43.936+01:00That sounded like fun! I used to drive to and from...That sounded like fun! I used to drive to and from Geneva quite regularly (way back when...). Leave Geneva late afternoon, over the mountains, dinner in Dijon and then straightish empty roads all night all the way to Calais or Boulogne. Early morning ferry (or hovercraft actually in those days)across and be in London by mid/late afternoon.<br /><br />I was in Monaco too a few months ago and quite agree with you that three days max is more than enough to see and do all you need or want to. But there is some great coastline to explore and beautiful little villages up in the hills of southern France which bear some time being spent, er, idling.Nomadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7748920856459488211.post-80496751297384608732010-04-19T07:41:31.111+01:002010-04-19T07:41:31.111+01:00You remind me of my own overnight journey twenty o...You remind me of my own overnight journey twenty odd years ago leaving Cannes at nine and arriving at Calais around five in the morning. I was aiming to be in the Welsh Marches by midday and would have done so if I had not got lost somewhere in Kent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com