In gives me great pleasure, even though it’s late in the day, to unveil our travelling companion for this year’s trek from the North West down to Le Mans and back.
After several false starts, even though I booked a six berth vehicle in January, I have only just now had confirmation that this is our home for the six days of our Le Mans 2011 sabbatical.
Without boring you too much about the finer detail of the shambles of this year’s arrangements the motorhome hire company we’ve used this year (which is the same as 2009 but not last year’s as they appear to have gone bust!) have been appalling and we will not be using them again.
Suffice to say I have identified a replacement hire company for LM2012 (which, incidentally, is the company that is providing this year’s lady albeit through the original hire company – complicated, I know) assuming this year’s arrangements and vehicle tick all the expected necessary boxes.
Without further ado (drum roll….) here she is in the flesh. She’s based on a Ford Transit, as opposed to the Fiat from previous years, and although she does have a rear lounge area (like last year’s Sundance Kid) she isn’t quite as long. The plus side to that is that both Chadders and KL will have a separate double bed each (with Sniffer obviously taking the above cab boudoir as usual).
She’s virtually brand new
New for this year – swivelling front seats !
The rear lounge – too short to be two single beds as per last year – just right for one person
Nice bathroom – with a proper shower cubicle – no dirty boys this year
TV in the rear lounge – ready to be connected to our very own satellite dish
Our indoor kitchen and drinks cabinet
A long view of Sniffer’s bed
She has quite a nice profile
The layout
A sample photo with the swivelly seats
The rear bed – in preparation for a Sunday morning lie-in
Considering the potential disaster that nearly was this year’s arrangement I don’t think we’ve done too badly.
I’ll be picking her up a week today (next Monday afternoon) in time to fill her up and pack her to the gills.
So who is Max and who’s going to be Paddy?
ReplyDelete3 London is shit hats then are required, two sailor suits and a Pakistan cricket shirt.
Looks mint, being Transit based it should drive a lot better too.
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