Seabart
01-17-2011, 01:52 PM
Did a bit of a roadtrip this weekend:
I got off the ship on saturday morning in the beautiful *cough* port of Den Helder, my dad picked me up there and we drove to my home in Oosterwolde.
Around 3-ish I left for Cologne in Germany, as soon as possible hitting the German Autobahn where I cruised at abt 170 km/hr, peaking at 200 km/hr (220km/hr on the speedo) on the Oberhausen Straight. I wasn't too comfortable at that speed as the wintertires I have fitted at the moment feel a bit weavy, not really reassuring. I'd rather have the Dunlops for high speed trashing but unfortunately you have to have wintertires fitted in Germany in this time of year.
I arrived in Cologne around 6 o'clock, right in time for the food to arrive at my cousins 40th birthday party. We partied till about 3 in the morning when I decided that enough was enough and I needed a bed.
Next day, nursing a wee hangover I drove to my sisters place in Breda, then to Schiphol Amsterdam Airport to drop my wife off, continued to Den Helder to drop off some stuff at the ship and then finally back home to Oosterwolde again. All small & slow stuff especially as the Dutch motorways are limited to 120, 100, 80, 70 and sometimes 50 km/hr because they are always busy with some kind of construction work.
A small map to show you the route:
http://www.thebrm.co.uk/vb/picture.php?albumid=34&pictureid=270
in numbers:
Den Helder - Oosterwolde : 1hr 20 mins, 135 km
Oosterwolde - Cologne: 3 hrs, 315 km
Cologne - Breda: 2 hrs, 215 km
Breda - Schiphol: 1hr 15 mins, 115 km
Schiphol - Den Helder: 1hr, 85 km
Den Helder - Oosterwolde: 1hr 15 mins, 135 km
Total: 8 hr 50 mins, 1000 km
I used abt 95 ltrs of fuel giving me an average consumption of 1:10.5 ltr/km or 29.7 mpg.
Either doing 5 km/hr through the city traffic of doing 200 km/hr on the Autobahn my trusty (but tatty-looking) BRM never missed a single beat.
And I kinda forgot how much I like driving long stints with some good songs on the radio and not much traffic to worry about.
I got off the ship on saturday morning in the beautiful *cough* port of Den Helder, my dad picked me up there and we drove to my home in Oosterwolde.
Around 3-ish I left for Cologne in Germany, as soon as possible hitting the German Autobahn where I cruised at abt 170 km/hr, peaking at 200 km/hr (220km/hr on the speedo) on the Oberhausen Straight. I wasn't too comfortable at that speed as the wintertires I have fitted at the moment feel a bit weavy, not really reassuring. I'd rather have the Dunlops for high speed trashing but unfortunately you have to have wintertires fitted in Germany in this time of year.
I arrived in Cologne around 6 o'clock, right in time for the food to arrive at my cousins 40th birthday party. We partied till about 3 in the morning when I decided that enough was enough and I needed a bed.
Next day, nursing a wee hangover I drove to my sisters place in Breda, then to Schiphol Amsterdam Airport to drop my wife off, continued to Den Helder to drop off some stuff at the ship and then finally back home to Oosterwolde again. All small & slow stuff especially as the Dutch motorways are limited to 120, 100, 80, 70 and sometimes 50 km/hr because they are always busy with some kind of construction work.
A small map to show you the route:
http://www.thebrm.co.uk/vb/picture.php?albumid=34&pictureid=270
in numbers:
Den Helder - Oosterwolde : 1hr 20 mins, 135 km
Oosterwolde - Cologne: 3 hrs, 315 km
Cologne - Breda: 2 hrs, 215 km
Breda - Schiphol: 1hr 15 mins, 115 km
Schiphol - Den Helder: 1hr, 85 km
Den Helder - Oosterwolde: 1hr 15 mins, 135 km
Total: 8 hr 50 mins, 1000 km
I used abt 95 ltrs of fuel giving me an average consumption of 1:10.5 ltr/km or 29.7 mpg.
Either doing 5 km/hr through the city traffic of doing 200 km/hr on the Autobahn my trusty (but tatty-looking) BRM never missed a single beat.
And I kinda forgot how much I like driving long stints with some good songs on the radio and not much traffic to worry about.