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Day 3: Sarnen, Switzerland to Aprica, Italy
22 September 2007
Wow.
Switzerland is beautiful. The scenery is simply stunning, with huge pointy mountains and vast green plains, with some glaciers, cliffs and cows thrown in for good measure.
It´s just a shame I couldn´t see much of it as I was too busy driving the Renault!
Starting at the collection point in Sarnen, where the ´Top Gone´team made a dramatic entrance to the theme from Top Gun, we headed up and down mountains for something like 45 minutes. At that point we had to sit at the side of the road, bonnet up, and let temperatures come down a little.
Repeat eight or nine times.
The brakes got a workout on the way back down the mountains but, thanks to a helpful discount from EBC Brakes Direct, we´d got a new set of discs and pads on the Safrane.
The biggest scare of the day came in the afternoon when, without warning, the air conditioning controls failed. Fortunately a simple restart of the car resolved the problem, so life wasn´t quite as tough as it might have been.
Only a few hundred miles today, but all of it steep and tight. No car problems beyond the air-con, as all the stops were pre-emptive. Roll on Sottomarina.
Switzerland is beautiful. The scenery is simply stunning, with huge pointy mountains and vast green plains, with some glaciers, cliffs and cows thrown in for good measure.
It´s just a shame I couldn´t see much of it as I was too busy driving the Renault!
Starting at the collection point in Sarnen, where the ´Top Gone´team made a dramatic entrance to the theme from Top Gun, we headed up and down mountains for something like 45 minutes. At that point we had to sit at the side of the road, bonnet up, and let temperatures come down a little.
Repeat eight or nine times.
The brakes got a workout on the way back down the mountains but, thanks to a helpful discount from EBC Brakes Direct, we´d got a new set of discs and pads on the Safrane.
The biggest scare of the day came in the afternoon when, without warning, the air conditioning controls failed. Fortunately a simple restart of the car resolved the problem, so life wasn´t quite as tough as it might have been.
Only a few hundred miles today, but all of it steep and tight. No car problems beyond the air-con, as all the stops were pre-emptive. Roll on Sottomarina.
Labels: Staples2Naples 07
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