Paris-Calais-Belgium (by mistake)-N?rburgring Insta-Roadtrip pics (56k unfriendly)

[Alok]

1 The Album Cover
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8 Ice cold motorway wind in your feet, easy solution for waking up
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10 Aww Jill's a bit short
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13, Straight down from the Eiffel Tower.
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14 This was interesting, a beam of light shining through the clouds.
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15 Onwards, to Calais
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16 The Roadtrippers
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17 Driving in Paris is nuts, I have some near misses and some blind drivers on tape.
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19 You can see the paint layers on the Eiffel Tower, over the years.
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21 Driving through Paris hunting for a WLAN signal, as we didnt have a satnav or a map
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25 Chaos before Calais
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26 After the first night's cramped sleep in the not so flat rear seats of the Golf, Flo decided to sleep the second night in the trunk.
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27 Calais at night
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28 One of Jill's 20 pairs of shoes
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30 The awakening. Flo nicked my cam and took this pic.
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35 Flo inspecting a freshly killed bug. It was soo massive, it's legs were still moving.
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37 Breakfast. ?clairs rock
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38 Took a pic of a map of Belgium at a gas station, loaded it onto my iPod and used it as a satnav without the sat.
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43 I belted Jill in place, in a very nice Dave Evans's Elise
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44 and sent her off to her baptism into the world of petrolheads. I've never seen anyone as polite as him before at the ring. He waved to every driver that we passed.
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In the last picture, it says EPC on the left gauge, but seriously, it should have said EPIC.

 

[Alok]

The full collection is here: http://picasaweb.google.com/alokharidas/ParisCalaisBeligumNRburgringInstaRoadtrip

 

[Kip_6666]

Wow great, seems really spontaneous and it looks like you guys had a nice time.

Awesome photos too

 

[Martyn]

I think some of these are definitely some of your best pictures yet. I love spontaneous stuff like this, and some of these are really excellent.

If you'd only de-tilt the one of your friend on tiptoes!

I love this, but obviously I'm biased:

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I'm very much a fan of this one too:

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[IceBone]

I agree, the pics are excellent, you didn't go overboard with the PP like you usually do, the composition is excellent too and the golf looks so squeaky clean all the time!

Love the dv cam on the dash, i wish mine was as flat.

 

[whoster]

I SEE A WIESMANN!!!

 

[Cobol74]

Nice set of pics Alok. You had a nice time there then, Dave Evans seems a nice bloke.

 

[chvvkumar]

Awesome pics!

PS: Dude the picasa web album link is broken it seems.

 

[Blayde]

http://picasaweb.google.com/alokharidas/ParisCalaisBelgiumNRburgringInstaRoadtrip

^correct link, misspelled Belgium

Awesome shots Alok , looked EPC

 

[07 SS/SC]

Very very cool! You have some awesome pictures up there and it looks like you guys and girl had a great time!

 

[NooDle]

Very cool. I still don't understand the idea of "lets rent a car and drive around for a couple of days and sleep in it at night" but still... respect

 

[jensked]

Belgium BY MISTAKE?

That hurts.

 

[bone]

end there in mistake

it's like finding a needle in a haystack "by mistake" :lol:

looked like fun!

 

[Alok]

Belgium BY MISTAKE?

That hurts.

We were just looking for a gas station to shower at...

 

[Top Geek]

Nice shots! What camera do you use?

 

[mautzel]

Impressive shots, Alok - did you hit the Ring or just got round there to take a look at it this time?

 

[Alok]

Nice shots! What camera do you use?

I used a D200 and a bunch of lenses, including the 17-70 sigma macro, 50mm 1.4 nikkor and the 70-300mm nikkor VR

Impressive shots, Alok - did you hit the Ring or just got round there to take a look at it this time?

We actually did hit the track, although not in our Sixt rental. I got a sweet ride in an Elise and a very good connection to people at Bridge to Gantry.