FE-FC Holden Discussion Forum

Jacky and I are sitting in the lounge at Sydney airport waiting to board our A380 to London and then over to Vienna and Linz for the start of our 10 week European trip. Included hopefully will be a visit to Paul In Ireland during our UK stint.

 Anyone interested can follow our travels via our blog "Jacky and Col's Big Adventure".

 As this is our first overseas trip, we decided to make the most of our time. We are starting with a visit to my sister in Austria, then a 27 day bus tour starting in London and finishing in Amsterdam, followed by a trip through the UK including the Edinborough Tattoo, then Ireland, Wales and finally leaving via London.

We are both very excited and full of anticipation for a busy time.

Colin.

Bon Voyage Col & Jacky, hope you have a great time, and no advise or back seat driving to the pilots about over revving the motors on take off Col... ;D

Cheers, Gary

Travel safely and send postcards.

Have a great time.

David

Ive never followed a Blog before. Can it be one of the little symbols on the left hand side like the PM  or Email or Facebook symbol?

Regards


Wayne B

 Have a wonderfully safe and enjoyable adventure Collin & Jackie.

Keep us all up todate during your travels



Regards

Weddo

Bill & judi

Here is a link to their blog.

http://jackyandcol.wordpress.com/ ($2)

Cheers
David

Hi Col & Jacky,

All the best, have a grand time. I'll follow your blog with interest.

RET

(PS: Do I see some of Tim's handiwork in that blog setup?)

Good LUCK.
Have FUN.
Stay SAFE.
Regards
Alex

Thanks, David for the blog link. Yes, Tim set the blog up for us. We are sitting in Vienna airport after a very tiring set of flights. We missed our connection at London, which means we missed our Linz connection. Our luggage has gone on a holiday also, deciding NOT to come to Vienna! We are chasing down our rogue cases as I type this.

Colin.

Have a great time guys good luck with the luggage. Will watch out for your updates.
Cheers,
Graham

Have a great holiday Colin & Jacky
Look forward to following your Blog


or will we see you on the Airport programme on the tv.... a couple of Aussies running franticaly around pommy airports trying to find lost luggage and trying to get onto flights that they've missed.....
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D


have fun
 8) 8) 8)

 ;D ;D ;D Hmmmmm Colin in Austria - singing on a hill - "The Hills are alive.............".  Does sought of conjour up weird images!!!!!!

Have a great time - better bring some photos to the NATS!!!!!

Cheers HOTLIPS ;) ;) ;)

Good on ya Hotlips. The hills are alive alright, with Opels, Citreons, Renaults, Fords and bloody Japanese cars. We are now in Linz, with my sister and her family. It is 8.30 on Thursday night. We are 7 hours behind eastern Australia. Our luggage has just turned up. Turns out it went to the wrong terminal at London. Everything is so different, drinking good wheat beer, eating different foods, yum! Left hand drive, all the places are very close. My neices husbands family has a farm about 15mins away. The house is about 300 years old, the views are magificent. We stay here till Sunday, then we go back to London to start our tour on Tuesday morning. I'll think of all you guys going to work, NOT!

Piccys up soon on our blog.

Colin.

A bit of an update. We left Monaco this morning and are now in Florence. Our hotel in Monaco sits on the downhill horseshoe corner leading into the tunnel. There are F1 bits & pieces everywhere. The cars, people and money going through this place are unbelievable. There are as many special cars as run of the mill. Ferraris, Lambos, Astons, Jags, Bentleys, Rolls. Just for starters. The regular cars are parked around the back. Two cars which stood out for me: a really nice late 50's Caddy. 2 tone blue, looked as though it was being used as intended, as a limo. The 2nd was a McLaren Merc convertible. Simply amazing. This car shook the ground when the guy drove it away. I'll try & get some pics up.

Colin.

Here are Col's pics.

(http://s3.postimage.org/1l9p4bf2c/colt_02.jpg) ($2)


(http://s3.postimage.org/1l9vqgt1g/colt_03.jpg) ($2)


(http://s3.postimage.org/1la0p2uis/colt_01.jpg) ($2)


Regards
Alex

To Col & Jacky I see a lot of plastic around you'se but where is an fc/fe sorry but not happy  ;)                   Grubby

We'll get to the FE-FC part of our trip in about 3 or 4 weeks. Till then we'll just all have to put up with what they've got. I've seen a Holden, it was on the motorway in Germany. Ok, it was a rebadged Opel Astra. The Opel symbol had been replaced by a Holden lion and the Opel badge had been replaced by a Holden badge. Because it overtook our bus I only saw the back of it. It sounded like a hottie too. And yes, I did get a piccy. I've taken a liking to Fiat 500's. There is still a good number of the originals around and there are heaps of the new ones around, not just in Italy. And the number of models seems to be big.

We are back in Paris, our bus trip is over, thank goodness. We have met up with Julius and Nicola from the ACT club who are also travelling around. We go to London tomorrow for 2 days, then we head to Edinburgh for the Tattoo. We then go our separate ways to continue our holidays.

Colin.

Update time. I am happy to say that we have had a ride in an FE. We met up with Paul In Ireland and his family. We didn't have a lot of time due to circumstances but Paul took us for a ride into town and his lovely wife made us a great lunch. It was good to put a face to the name and to get some relief from the European cars. We had a great day.

Unfortunately I still haven't mastered the piccy uploading thingy so I will be asking Alex to do the honours for me again.

 We are currently in Eastern Ireland and go to Wales on Friday, for a week after which we return home. Ireland is truly spectacular, the people are wonderful and friendly, the rain seems to fall constantly. It's just a shame about their cars, although on some of their roads a big car would be a distinct disadvantage.

Colin.

Here ya go Col.

(http://s2.postimage.org/158oxctd0/coltpaul.jpg) ($2)

Must have been shot during a break in the weather.
Good to hear you guys are having a great time.
Regards
Alex

Paul - what happened to the beard?

Cheers,

Josh

Gone Josh.

Circumstances Col? Yes well, you could say that. I left not long after and I am now in Perth looking for work.....

But despite that we really enjoyed both or you and your company and hope the rest of your trip goes well. I look forward to meeting up again one day soon.


All the best

Paul


NB - this should have been one post but for some reason it posted the part when I wasn't looking  ::)

Great photo. Ironic indeed that Paul has made it back to Australia before Col & Jacky.

You'll have to give Paul a ride in your FE at Easter time.

Hey Col

Any chance that you guys can drive Paul's FC to Perth for him?
I've watched some awesome doco's about the Paris to Peking rallies.

Glad to read on your blog that the trip is going so well.

Cheers, Tim

A bit hard there, Tim. We arrived home this morning after a 19 hr flight. Needless to say we are both zonked. We finished with a week in Wales which was fantastic. All these places which we have earmarked for a return visit. We had a fantastic time and must now face the realities of returning to work. Now looking forward to Easter in Perth.

Colin.

Wow, that 10 weeks went quick.
Good to hear that you got home safely.
Regards
Alex