Our holiday to Malta 2008 ....

[Mk2Jo]

I know there is nothing worse than being dragged through someone else's holiday photo album and so I have avoided putting up pics until now but a few people have asked me about our holiday so I have succumbed I put the post in here as I thought it the most appropriate place for holiday pics

 

We had an absolutely fantastic adventure, a lot of laughs , some stunning scenery, encountered some nice people and some real arseholes (arrogant Italians). We saw some beautiful countries (Germany, Austria, Malta) and some shitty ones (Italy and Sicily - main routes and port areas very dirty). There were many, many highs, a few lows and I am left with some fantastic memories as a result of which I am struggling to get back into my "pre-Malta" life ..... most of them due to the brilliant companions we had on our trip namely the Doughty's and the Jenkins' families and, of course, the wonderful Maltese boys and girls ... so here we go ... a brief look at our holiday .... look away now if you are not interested

 

 

Day One: Dover - Dunkerque ... the journey begins ....

 

 

On The Road: Belgium

 

 

Germany: Heading towards Saarlouis where all the RS2000 MK2 Escorts were built

 

 

Night One: In the German forests

 

 

Day Two: Bodensee (Lake Constance) Germany

 

 

Night Two: Near Bludenz (German/French border) our campsite for the night

 

 

 

Day Three: Germany - Black Forest

 

 

Day Three: Austria into Italy - The Brenner Pass

 

 

 

 

The Italian motorways :

 

 

Night Four: Napoli harbour and our overnight ferry crossing from Napoli to Sicily:

 

 

 

 

Day Five: Palermo, Sicily (the place with no signs anywhere )

 

 

 

 

Travelling across Sicily - a view of Mount Etna (in the background) an active volcano:

 

 

The afternoon of Day Five: Our 2 hour catamaran crossing from Pozzallo (Sicily) to Malta

 

 

Our arrival at Malta and straight to Stefan's garage to fit Posse's new engine - no time to hang around :

 

 

 

HAL-FAR RACEWAY ~ MALTA (Team OSF UK/Malta branch):

 

 

 

 

Even the Maltese police were interested but not for the same reasons as those in the UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wearing our OSF London-Hal-Far T-Shirts with pride courtesy of Sprocket and James's missus

 

 

Charlie and Alex (Drag Addict and Joker)

 

 

The money shot

 

 

We even found time to do other things A day at the Water Park and the Malta Classic Car Museum:

 

 

 

 

The beautiful port of Valletta, Malta and it's home we go :

 

 

 

 

Back across Sicily:

 

 

 

Napoli:

 

 

The trip home through Italy :

 

 

 

A night at Innsbruk (beautiful campsite in a stunning location):

 

 

 

Back across the Fernpass Austria:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally back to Dunkerque for our final ferry

 

 

 

I took almost 500 photos and so these are just a few. Roll on 2009

[Jimbob-Squarepants ©]

Some stunning photo's there Jo

 

What camera did you use???

[Copey]

some great pics, whats with the upside down tent though, haha, did do make me smile

[Nettles]

Top pic's Jo

 

Glad you had a great time in Malta. Looks like your journey there was more interesting than ours, stuck on a cramp plane for three hours.

As I said before we totally loved Malta and it was made even better because we had the chance to meet up with team OSF and the Maltese crew and watch some top racing.

[emu]

Glad to hear you all had a great time Some lovely scenery there too. I didnt even notice the upside down tent, just the mountains rising in the background

[MK2Ed]

Looks good Jo, a great road trip, well worth the few lows I suspect ........ :thumbsup:

[PAUL MANN]

great pics,looks like you had a great time,glad all went to plan

[caprinerd]

nice pics jo love the scenery

[Posse]

Fooking stunning i can't believe it's nearly been 2 weeks since we have been back

 

PS... god i look young

 

Nice pics jo

[lotusless]

great pics jo looks like the

boss forgot to load something in malta

[Mr Sam]

i see Posse decided between crocks and flip flops in the end

 

sounded epic from the stories you were telling us all the other week glad you all had a brill time

[Mrs O/H/C]

Looks f**king stunning , we are very green with envy jo

[zetecmk2]

really nice pics jo. wasn't darren suppose to have another mk1 on the trailor on the way home?

[Fiesta Steve]

I enjoyed the photo's Jo, nice one

[oddball]

A great picture summary of a brilliant holiday, Jo.

Such great memories

 

 

 

As you said we saw some lovely countries and some not so nice ones and the people seemed to match!

 

The week in Malta absolutely flew by, lovely place, friendly people, lots of drag racing and plenty of sunshine,what more could you want ?

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Maybe another week

 

Definaltely left me with the holiday blues

 

2009

[sab6024]

Great photos Jo, looks like you all enjoyed yourselves I'm not jealous......MUCH!!!

[antz]

nice pcis!!!

 

why is ya trailer empty boss??? is the car still in malta?

[CrazyCharlie]

looked like a wicked journey

how many miles did you do

[Posse]

looked like a wicked journey

how many miles did you do

 

3612 in total

[ann_capri]

nice pics jo

 

glad you all had a good time

[Toby]

Amazing pictures, looks like a real adventure.

 

Thanks for sparing us the, "now here's the ferry - now what was it called....um anyway never mind we caught it at, er I think it was 6.05 no, 6.06 that's right because the kids needed a piss, anyway where was I......"

 

 

Welcome home all!!

[marky4]

great pics jo

 

glad you all had a great time

[SmokeEm]

I'm sooooo fooking Jealous

 

Great pic's though Jo

[MightySprocket]

cool pics Jo great road trip by the looks

[Stu_B]

Looks amazing, I went to Malta in July & decided I was gonna do an across Europe roadtrip back there. Wanna spread it over a month or two though & spend a lot longer in Malta