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mihto

Joined: 03 Feb 2008
Posts: 3273
Location: West coast of Norway

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 10 9:12 pm Post subject: All I want for Christmas is a new road
Living in Westerness DOES have its moments. Thanks to those in charge for letting most of us survive 2010. May there be no need to change NOR-WAY to NO-WAY in 2011

windyridge

Joined: 03 Oct 2010
Posts: 2732
Location: Up the garden from Henry

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 10 9:14 pm Post subject:
OUCH!

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 10 9:15 pm Post subject:
like a glove. lol i was on a road like that last week but with no barrier over the edge

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35128
Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 10 9:41 pm Post subject:
Where was that Misty? So I can avoid it. Roads like that make me feel physically ill.

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 10 9:52 pm Post subject:

a82?83? when i went to campbeltown i told boss to never send me there again. its ok but you get glympses of nothing below. lets just say i had to stop every few mile as it was the scariest road iv been on as it was dark and icy and it was either a drop of proberly 500mtrs or is was into a loch guy in stranraer told me im a nutter if was going there in the weather we had last week as it was i was at 60mph on some straights then the asr light comes on meaning wheel spin and abs comes on meaning i could not stop so most of road was 30-45mph max

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 10 11:48 am Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Roads like that make me feel physically ill.

Fancy a trip on this road? (the bit from 1 min 37 secs in is of particular interest

)

A.

Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 10 12:00 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Where was that Misty? So I can avoid it. Roads like that make me feel physically ill.

I went over the Alps...on a Magic bus...at night...with a driver who was lost...and had never driven that road before. It was when I realised the 'stars' twinkling I could see were actually the lights from villages a LONG WAY below, that I started to really get spooked. There were a couple of Catholic girls on their knees in the aisle of the coach with their rosarys out

so it wasn't just me. The watch I was wearing stopped and never worked again...

Quite overshadowed my whole trip really, I was so glad when we came back through Austria I was in tears. That and that the ex and I were so ill with something picked up in Greece, that fellow travellers wanted me to take him to hospital in Germany....A most MEMORABLE trip for all the wrong reasons!

Kate

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 10 1:16 pm Post subject:
All you need are some passing places - we need a new road, one of these days the car is going to be sat in the middle with the wheels spinning. It's on the listr to be resurfaced but the lorries are packing it down and this weather doesn't help.

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