So. I thought I'd pop back along 

Who dared delete my account? Had to register again. How rude!! ;-)

Old timers still here?

Wheres the muddymonkies section gone?

Hope y'all well.

JH

It's like the Mary Celeste in here.

Ok so first off, I apologise for the delay in this write up! I went to Berlin with the mrs. and a uni friend at the end of May (29th May - 2nd June) and since returning have been swamped with work issues, which mostly centred around travel for Madrid, which I returned from on Friday (and will write that up probably sometime in October judging by this!).

However, nonetheless, as promised (several times), my Berlin trip.

We booked Berlin in April using LastMinute.com because none of us could be bothered to actually source anything properly so we decided to go for the lazy option. Flights return from London City and a 4 night stay at TYP Berlin, fairly close to the centre (close enough for us anyway). We booked because we wanted to get away from the UK for a week, and I've always wanted to see Berlin for the history so it seemed like a good choice.

We flew out on Monday 29th May from London City, having endured bank holiday trains on Great Western Railway to London (named 'Great Western' solely because there is no other service to compete with...) and left behind ok weather to some rather good temps. in Berlin, about mid 20s on landing around 4pm (their time). We took a taxi to the hotel and checked in before heading out to dinner/have a wander.

Something I have somehow become very adept at, and I expect a solid amount of ridicule from the lot of you for, is an ability to find the nearest McDonald's in a foreign land without really trying. Sure enough, after about 5 minutes of walking from the hotel, we found the large train station with multiple lines, but also saw the McDonald's sign. So, first night in Berlin we opted to stick with what we knew and had a McDonald's dinner. Brit's on tour!

We were about to return to the hotel when I looked out across the concourse of the station and saw, in the distance, the top of a dome that I vaguely recognised but couldn't quite place. The others were up for a bit of a wander (it was about 8pm, still very light) so we headed over there to find the Reichstag building. One monument crossed off the list already! While there we saw an advertisement for a light showing of German history that started at 10pm, so we went and had a drink on the river before going to sit on the steps outside the Bundestag building. The half hour light show was very good, and detailed German democracy from the late 1800's to present day, showing the impact of both wars, the rise of Hitler, the splitting of Germany and its reunification. There was a decent crowd for it as well and had 2 showings per night as a result.



After this we returned to the hotel for the night.

The next day we decided to go and see some landmarks of Berlin, which included:

• The Reichstag building (again)
• The Brandenburg gate
• Memorial to war victims
• Checkpoint Charlie
• Spy museum
  

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Hi there peeps....well I/we are back home again after 4 weeks in beautiful Crete.  Had a fantastic time, the island is lovely.....interesting, lots of historicals to look around.....great scenery.....very mountainous...great food and nice people.  We had a rental car for the 4 weeks and clocked up 2400kms.  If anyone is considering going I/we can thoroughly recommend it.

Is there such a thing as a mobile bike mot'er not been able to access the bikes for over a year so the mot's have elapsed. Currently they are sorned don't really want to be riding them while they are sorned and mot'less.
The alternative is van hire or having them picked up which will obviously cost a bomb.

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Well chaps I'm off to watch the World Championship down hill races at Fort William this weekend with my mate from the bike shop.

He managed to blag a couple of free tickets from Fox and have full pit access for the weekend.

We will be setting off on the 7hour long journey between 2 and 3 am Saturday morning in my Z4 with the boot loaded up with beer and tents.

He's booked us in to a campsite near by and will be coming back on sometime mid day Monday.

They say it is a massive event so looking forward seeing the big names doing what they do best DOWN HILL FAST

Hello folks not been on for a while but I'm going to make a concerted effort to get on more. Been an unsettled few months but back on track now. Hope everyone is doing well

Hey folkses....back again after a lovely week in W Sussex.....nephew's wedding and a few days out and about.  Arundel castle is an amazing place and the few other small towns/harbours we visited were v nice.  Add in a few flavourful G&T's and it was a great week.  Hope you guys are all well and enjoying the sunshine.