Hahaha, that's actually what I disliked about the freelander!
I got right of way everywhere, people were desperate to move aside. It wasn't my car and I'm not used to driving in something quite 'impressive'. I'm quite a social driver. I don't mind waiting or giving people a little bit of space on the road so I really didn't like the apparently agressive appearance it has to some people.

yeah, but usually people die in those.
Didn't happen.
Unfortunately the road home only took me 4 hours, the road to Amsterdam took me 9 hours. Way better :D

I only live about fifteen miles from Manchester, but it still took 2 hours yesterday. And there was no music, no drinks and for company I had my very aged and respectable father who hates all modern music.

Salami!
Got another one. The first bit is about the friggin' rare Lancia Delta HF 4WD we spotted.
I should add two things
1. The Microphone makes it sound like we're going completely bezerk again
2. The one shouting the loudest, is not me.

A bit further on you'll see some curious behaviour on a roundabout, by two cars in a row. And after that we spotted an old Opel Ascona (Vauxhall Cavalier ;)) and some old Mercedes van.

Well spotted. Have just thumbed it up.

Is it just me, or does that skyline at the start appear in one of your other videos?

Haha, yes, the one with the BMW not going anywhere.
It's the exit of the parking lot of my supermarket :D

right there

I'm getting to know Holland pretty well through these videos.

Hahaha, I'm going to some friends next week and I'll be having a pretty large drive to get there.
Let's see...:
click here!
My camera will be running :D

I'll look forward to it! I'm sure your journey of about 80 k will yield some amusing driving incompetence from some people!

80k? 80 what, Kilometres? 80.000 kilometres?
It's neither :D.

My brain works in miles. And I can't make sense of the way the map was set out! It was all in Dutch for some reason! Was that big blue line going up north part of your route too?

Haha, up and down.
I go from Ohé en Laak to Bergen op Zoom to Rijswijk to Nijnsel to Ohé en Laak.
That's 462km's, which iiis... 289 miles.

"Bergen op Zoom" - that must be one of the coolest place names I've ever heard!
Well, I wish you a very safe and enjoyable 289 miles, hope some good music comes on, the drinks are good and the bad drivers are out in force!

I never wait for good music to come on, as it won't.
I just carry my own music.

Bergen op Zoom... Well "Ohé en Laak" definitely raises more eyebrows here :D.
Or what do you think of "Berg aan de Maas" or "Hippolytushoef" :D

"Hippolytushoef"

That is a really cool name. The most interesting we get here is "Broadbottom" or "Edensor".

Stoke on trent :D

I cycle there every month!

Also, there's a place in Wales called "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysili ogogogoch", it's on Anglesey and they have their own train station with all that written on it. We like to go there when we're on Anglesey just to see that name.

http://www.worldfamouscities.com/wp-...iogogogoch.jpg
Got to love that :D

Ahhh, you found it!!! I have several pictures of me and my family standing under that sign (It's just they aren't URL's). The trains come hourly and head for Liverpool. It's not a particularly busy place, but was given some redecoration recently just because so many people stop to look at it.

EDIT: only word I know with four consecutive F's.

In our trains, the train driver actually says at which station you're about to arrive. It's not a tape (yet), it's the actual driver.
I hope they don't do that there :D

I always find it hard when the drivers call the stops, especially being a traveler getting used to new accents. I wish all trains and buses had a scrolling marquee for the stops.

Buses in the big cities here do that.

http://www.brutusonline.nl/wp-conten...creenonbus.jpg
Not always flawless...

They didn't call a single stop from Dublin to Belfast when I was taking the evening train up, and I had no idea where we were. Nearly shat myself, but some kids saw us looking concerned as hell and told us when our stop was.

What is pretty odd is the fact that although not every station on our line is announced by the driver, my village, Broadbottom, will always be announced. The train driver always will have a thick northern accent, which must be very strange for foreign visitors.

I presume that was an Enterprise train, they usually terminate at either Belfast or Dublin anyway so you couldn't really miss your stop. I've never been on one but I've heard all sorts of complaints about them.

I usually get the Intercity railcars whenever I want to go to Dublin and they have the scrolling LED thingys and robotic announcements for every stop.

I wish trains weren't such a goddamn novelty across the pond. :(

We were doing pretty good until 1910 or so when America collectively said, "nah, fuck that shit."

I wish trains would actually serve their purpose and make travelling faster. On some routes it's quicker to get a bus or even drive rather than getting a train. Also we're probably the only country in the world that would spent a ton of money upgrading a railway line and then closing it months later.

Here in Manchester we did that very thing with a tram network. And guess what? Now we are spending millions rebuilding it again.

we're supposed to have a bullet train from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore but no news on that now

i suppose the budget's not permitting

At least you didn't previously have one but then rip the damn thing up.

the previous one's kinda slow, takes about six hours to get there

Our government also spent €150 million planning a metro system for Dublin and now it's not going to go ahead apparently. Why do governments waste so much money when they could be spending it on hospitals and schools?

We were supposed to have the most advanced, safest tunnel in Europe.
Care to guess what caused problems? Exactly, the safety system. If a truck came too close to the sensors that measured it's height, the entire tunnel would shut down. It took years to actually finish the tunnel. After a while it became common for everyone to check if 'the tunnel is open today'. Strangest thing. Anyway, they turned it into a regular tunnel now. Stupid thing.

I have £4.89 in my bank account.

Awwww, when will you be receiving more money?

I cannot see any reason for closing the whole thing down if there was a minor risk of there being a possibility of an accident. My old dad would probably blame the EU in Brussels for that particular piece of nonsense.

I think this was a completely dutch idea...

You can take pride in the fact that you have made mistakes, and are therefore human. We can take pride in the fact that we now have running water in most houses and in a few places, electricity!!!

Hahaha, it's that bad?

In nearby Lancashire, we've got a man asserting power of "Lord of the Manor" over a village, being backed by the law, for a lordship he bought for £1.

I still would want to know what it's like to live in an English village :D