tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88744353657968653102024-03-14T12:50:23.049+08:00Cape to Cairo 2011Driving a 1968 Mustang from Cape Town to Cairo, Sep-Oct '11Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-5112355293849632382020-05-13T11:17:00.000+08:002020-05-13T12:16:44.661+08:00Restoring the Mighty Mustang to pride of place<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Gordie’s 1968 Mustang with Table Mountain in the background.<br />
Cape Town September 2011 just before the start of our adventure<br />
More info and photos <a href="http://capetocairo2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/gordons-mustang.html" target="_blank">here</a></td></tr>
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If you only want to see posts from our 2011 road trip from <b>Cape Town to Cairo</b> click <a href="https://capetocairo2011.blogspot.com/search/label/Africa%202011" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
Or just go back to the <a href="https://capetocairo2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/first-post.html" target="_blank">First Post</a>.<br />
And some <a href="https://capetocairo2011.blogspot.com/2011/09/catch-up-post.html" target="_blank">more nice photos</a>.</div>
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If you only want to see posts from the 2018 <b>Mille Miglia</b> click <a href="https://capetocairo2011.blogspot.com/search/label/Mille%20Miglia%202018" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-606721792485956572018-06-04T17:07:00.000+08:002020-05-13T11:18:58.809+08:00Mille Miglia 2018 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our 1951 Ermini. More i<a href="http://ferrariexperts.com/ermini.htm" target="_blank">nfo on Ermini here</a>.<br />
This car took part in the original Speed version of MM, in 1952 and 1953<br />
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<b>Posted on 10 May 2018:</b><br />
Ok, so here we are. I can't find anywhere else to put photos and posts about our first outing at the Mille Miglia, to start next week in Brescia (16-19 May), so I'm going to put it here, as at the least this is a blog about a car trip.<br />
And how about that? It's seven years, no less, since we did our cross Africa trip.<br />
Goodness me.<br />
As Groucho said:<br />
Time flies like an arrow<br />
Fruit flies like a banana<br />
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[PS: this is a "pinned post" meaning it will always be on top; until June 4]<br />
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<b>LATER (22 May)</b>: Quick description of the Mille Miglia, below the fold. (more on the <a href="http://www.1000miglia.it/" target="_blank">MM website here</a>).<br />
<b>LATERER (28 May)</b>: Well it seems that I've allowed this to morph into an Italian Road trip. Oh well, so be it... As the Italians would say <i>perche non</i>?<br />
<b>EVEN LATERER STILL (6 June)</b>: Back in Hong Kong and jet-lagged. Explanation to why this is called "Cape to Cairo" is that I've just piggy-backed on this earlier blog I did in 2011 for our road trip across Africa. And great trip that was too! So, this time it's May/June 2018 starting with Gordie and my go at the Mille Miglia, which took place 16-19 May. The first posts are 12 May 2018.<br />
You can either click on the Label "<b>Mille Miglia 2018</b>" on the above right, which will filter all the MM posts, or just start at 12 May, which you can get to via the "<b>Blog Archive</b>". Basically, it's all the posts in 2018.<br />
Then I ended up adding photos of the road trip we did from Brescia/Milan down to Sicily and back to Milan, with John and Jing joining in that.<br />
And, reminder, below the fold is a quick description of the Mille Miglia, and how it works.<br />
<a name='more'></a>The original Mille Miglia was a 1000 mile race run, until 1957, from Brescia to Brescia, via Rome, and various other towns in between. Until 1957 it was a straight out speed race. The quickest to the finish. Roads were closed to normal traffic. Sterling Moss won the race in 1955, in a Mercedes-Benz sports, at an *average* speed of 100 mph = 160km, which is an incredible, almost unimaginable feat given the state of the roads: pretty bad now, and worse then. He hit a top speed of 290 kph.<br />
Then in 1957 there was a horrible accident. One of the cars became airborne, lost control and ploughed into the crowd, killing 15 and injuring dozens. So the race was abandoned in years thereafter.<br />
In 1976 (iirc) it was re-instituted as a regulation time trial race. This means cars are on open roads, sharing with normal traffic. You are supposed to obey all the normal road rules.[<b><span style="color: red;">*</span></b>] Then they inserts some "regulation time trials", in which you have to cover certain short sections in a certain time, and you have to be exact to the second, not faster, not slower. They also have "average speed" sections, where you have to keep an average speed of, say, 42kph, for, say, 8km. They also have overall times for each section, each day and overall, which you have to hit accurately. After all this, it's the car with the best overall performance, with the maximum points, calculated by a complex formula, which wins.<br />
We were never in danger of troubling the judges, because of break-downs, and in any case.<br />
We were happy simply to finish, given that of the seven cars in our group -- cars rented from Pietro Tenconi of Milan -- three did not finish, for cause of blown engine, broken clutch and one crash.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">*</span>LATER: </b>we were "supposed to" follow the road rules. But in Italy, nah, this didn't happen. The police themselves helped us to cross double yellow lines, to run red lights, to speed past 50kph signs in little villages. And even without the cops, everyone of the MM cars ignored the road rules. It was like MM cars were invulnerable..... We all noted that, had it been in the UK, or Australia, the cops would've been onto us like flies on s... . But in Italy, they just love the MM so much they let us cars do whatever we wanted. Kewl....</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-68532794181421612102018-06-02T14:16:00.004+08:002018-06-20T12:53:18.097+08:00Sirmione<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And so we end as we began, with the Mille Miglia.<br />
Sirmione, where we are now, has an ongoing festival to<br />
the original 1947-57 MM, the real Heros, as they zoomed<br />
around the 1,000 mile open roads at speeds up to 290kph</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch by the lake in Sermione, John tucked behind the flowers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's simple beauty everywhere<br />
in Sirmione, indeed in Italy...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">... simple beauty, like this, Lago di Garda</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And our current version of the Mille Miglia, a Regulated Time Trial<br />
a bit like this, a kids' game compared with the Heroes. Still, takes<br />
some getting 61+ year old cars around Italy's rutted back roads...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hotel Sirmione, our pub there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damiano takes us out on a sunset cruise<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John, me and Jing. In front of the Roman Villa at Sirmione. <br />
It was 200 metres by 100 metres, 2,000 years ago...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mirror with Damiano and our crew</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-57638980252217112302018-06-02T14:01:00.000+08:002018-06-02T14:10:03.612+08:00Verona<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well, Herculaneum really, but who's counting?<br />
One of the beautifully preserved mosaics in this<br />
excavated city, found earlier but excavated later<br />
and better preserved than Pompeii because it was<br />
entombed in mud instead of ash</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jing Capulet.... at Juliet's house and famous balcony</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Osteria Sottoriva, where we ate horse meat stew, a specialty of<br />
Verona. We discussed meat eating, agreeing that it's all<br />
immoral, horse no more or less immoral than all the other we<br />
eat. We eat meat because we like it; not because we need it....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Arena in Verona, being prepared for a performance of Aida.<br />Quite the best and most beautifully preserved Roman Arena in the<br />world and the longest continually used venue ever.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-69671232929128101092018-05-29T14:50:00.003+08:002018-05-29T14:50:49.019+08:00Icarus revisited<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John's great tone-dropout of the fallen Icarus at the Temple Concordia, Agrigento, Sicily<br />No people!</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-58838288487509483892018-05-28T14:30:00.002+08:002018-06-25T15:54:32.248+08:00Fabulous Agrigento, Sicily<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Temple Concordia from John's room, at Villa Athena, Agrigento, and....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">... and, Villa Athena from the Temple Concordia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Temple Concordia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Icarus lies where he landed after his ill-conceived attempt<br />
at solar space travel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Temple of Giugnio</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John, at temple in Agrigento</td></tr>
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Unlike Marsala, which was a bit of a damp squib, Agrigento surprised delightfully on the upside. The largest UNESCO cultural heritage site in the world, with beautifully preserved temples.<br />
And Villa Athena is <i>the</i> place to stay when here. With fabulous views over the Valley of the Temples. Here's a description from a book "<i>New Luxury Hotels</i>" by Nicola Lecca, which they provide in each room of the Villa:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-66021618656805594262018-05-28T14:23:00.002+08:002018-05-28T14:23:40.712+08:00Marsala, Sicily<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Punch and Judy on the lawns of the Cantine, pretty much the only<br />thing worth seeing in Marsala. </td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-89532945236654710292018-05-26T23:05:00.000+08:002018-06-20T12:58:04.804+08:00Towards the boot... Calabria and Sicily<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the west coast of the tip of Italy, a little town called Tropea.<br />
Worth a visit if you happen to be in the region. This is the<br />
little church called, not surprisingly, "The Little Church of the Island"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some major buildings in the middle of Palermo are still decrepit.<br />
Note no floors to the balconies....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The house of Judge Falcone, the Mafia hutnter was bombed to rubble, killing him.<br />
This is what remains. Palermo, 26 May.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruins of the Mafia wars, left, and the regeneration on the right</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Many places in Palermo still ruined by the Mafia wars</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teatro Massimo, Palermo, 26 May</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-10292057281501430152018-05-25T14:40:00.002+08:002018-05-25T14:40:40.293+08:00Pompeii is great!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I first went to Pompeii with sister Anne, mother and dad, must be in about 1955, shortly after they'd done the most recent excavations. Then again, I guess sometime in the early seventies.<br />
Now it's much bigger than I remember. Much more excavated, and walking around is like walking around a Roman town.<br />
We were thinking that it's so big now, they ought to take a small section of it, and rebuild it as it would have been just before the eruption. It wouldn't take much and would be fantastic. But the Italians won't do it, I'm guessing, either because it's not allowed (likely) or because it's not <i>la bella figura...</i><br />
In any case, it's well worth a visit, a great day....<br />
Some of Jing's photos:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Florentine Friend, Padg, on her local transport. Elegant woman<br />in elegant town...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The classic, one has to take, but resisting<br />the pretend-holding-up, the leaning tower (torre pendent)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John and Jing, on the balcony of Relais Donna Lucrezia, Via Emilia, Rome<br /><i>The</i> place to stay in Rome, next to Villa Borghese. 21 May.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jing's photo of Gordie and me finishing the Mille Miglia<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friday 18th May: Piazza Del Campo, Siena</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An odd view of my face: sunburnt and soot encrusted. Our little Ermini<br />had no protection, none for safety and none for the elements</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Going down the straightway at Monza racing circuit. No<br />need for directions ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Monza people came out in thousands to welcome the classic cars</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our little Ermini, a racing car in the fifties, now on the classic circuit<br />with plenty of other company: 450+ in the MM this year</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lovely 1948 Bristol 400. This is the sort of car I should be<br />in, not old racing cars...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the Villa Mazzotti, Chiara, on way to Brescia, 19 May</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were early in Brescia*, waiting at a pub for other cars to catch up<br />folks - strangers - came up to chat. These are German car buffs<br />Michael and Christine</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the end, Brescia: the "Dream Team" of Pietro Tenconi.<br />LtoR: Dico, Angelo, Claudio, Pietro, Fraser, Eduardo Tenconi</td></tr>
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*Why were we early in Brescia? Because of the breakdown - a pretty major breakage of a part of the differential system, which would have taken days to fix normally - we had to miss the section from Rome to Milan. When fixed, we went straight to the Monza Racetrack - a very famous F1 racetrack - to join the other cars, which turned out to be the front runners. We did our time trial and headed off. Result: we were early in Brescia, waiting for Jing and John to text us that they were on the finish line, then we joined the cars that were coming through. It took about 2.5 hours for all 450+ cars to go through the starts and finishes.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-85439891556006808602018-05-22T23:08:00.000+08:002018-05-22T23:33:00.191+08:00Finito!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well, we finished the Mille Miglia, but not for want of our little car - a 1951 <a href="http://ferrariexperts.com/ermini.htm" target="_blank">Ermini</a> - trying by various ways to stop us...<br />
First the breaking of suspension: solution - fixed by welding, as posted previously, but with the result that we were timed out of the start. You're given 15 minutes leeway, and then you can't officially start. We were at the start line 17 minutes late. So day was spent following the other cars to Rome.<br />
Second, on the last day the car wouldn't start: solution - throttling the air filter intake on the carburetor.<br />
Third, soon after getting started on the last day, on way to start line: the half-shaft from the differential to the right wheel snapped. Result no gears. Solution - car pushed over the line, to get us a start, just two minutes before cut-off time (i.e. 13 minutes late), then trucked to Milan, where a new half-shaft was found and replaced in just over an hour, so we were able to continue to the finish, officially, passing by time trials at Monza on the way.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-49907437654701877712018-05-18T00:50:00.001+08:002018-05-18T00:50:39.291+08:00The Nut Lady<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This lady is made completely of Nuts, as in nuts and bolts.<br />By Silvio, the metal fabricator from the recent post, who<br />saved our bacon by fixing the suspension with a<br />combination of metal bending and bashing and welding</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-30392914406217916812018-05-18T00:48:00.001+08:002018-05-18T00:48:07.862+08:00Arezzo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gordie by the car, Medici Garden, Arezzo. Today</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Gardens of the Fort of the Medicis, Arezzo</td></tr>
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So, because we had out suspension problem we weren't able to start the race today. We had the car repaired, by the guys in the post just before this, and were off again at around 10.30, the rest of the fleet having left several hour earlier. We decided to go to Rome by the direct route - not the one taken by the MM fleet - but to catch up with them for lunch in Arezzo. It's (yet another) beautiful medieval town in Italy, this one beholden the (in?)famous Medicis. Great welcome from all the towns folk and a buffet lunch under a grand marquee.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-3227141320522928182018-05-18T00:30:00.000+08:002018-06-11T09:08:22.429+08:00Cervia Finish....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hmmm. what seems to be the problem?.....answer:<br />
Broken suspension strut </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The scene at a self-serve garage in the middle of the night last nightt.<br />
The wonderful team of Pietro's who follow our cars for just this reason</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">E.... managia....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what Silvio does when he's not making suspension brackets for an Ermini</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silvio the metal fabricator, who saved our bacon. He welded brackets to<br />
fit around the broken spring. Works fine.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-39823016608544317462018-05-18T00:15:00.003+08:002018-05-18T00:25:52.440+08:00Brescia Start<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aston Martin DB2/4 1954, nearing the start</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1949 Staguellini 1100 Sport Balbiero; 1951 Bentley MKVI<br />
1950 Fiat 500C "Topolino"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1951 AC Cobra, with 3000cc straight 6 engine.<br />Belonging to Henry and Catherine Nassau whom<br />I chatted with for some time before the start</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "Frecce Tricolori", the Italian airforce acrobatic<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-47904769507878562362018-05-16T04:35:00.000+08:002018-05-16T04:46:50.687+08:00Brescia II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friendly opening offer: Free!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Sport "Freccia D'Oro", 1948</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">V12, 2018</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Italy -- at least Brescia -- hasn't heard of #MeToo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alpha Romeo 6C 2500 SS Spider Colli, 1947</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alvis Speed 20SB, 1934</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aston Martin 2 Litre Speed Model, 1936</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-20881274982955417932018-05-15T15:44:00.001+08:002018-05-15T16:02:24.002+08:00Brescia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pietro with our number; Gordie, Pietro's wife Anna, and staff, at the "collection point"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">About 450 cars in this vast hall on the outskirts of Brescia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice rear end....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Technical scrutineering. I'm not too sure why they do so much,<br />given it's just a time trial, not a speed trial</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this is what they're looking at: a Fiat 1100 engine with<br />single downdraft Weber carburettor</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-37063896584056863862018-05-15T14:43:00.004+08:002018-05-15T18:22:38.281+08:00Milano <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the rooftop of La Rinascente department store, overlooking<br />
El Duomo, the 'elf 'n safety nuts have gone mad on the railing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tromp l'oeil, ought really be an Italian phrase; they're the best at it.<br />
Here on the Duomo, Milan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's a "Mozzarellaria", my first</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is supposed to stop the acolytes of the ROP.... and now the "incels", I guess</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-55226038043855889292018-05-12T17:36:00.003+08:002018-05-12T17:36:55.955+08:00In the Winter Marathon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-53194980486322690972018-05-12T17:19:00.001+08:002020-05-13T11:31:29.119+08:00Mille Miglia: the car<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last year, with les belles</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the original Mille Miglia, a speed race. 1952</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pietro Tenconi, and the mighty one....<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-52103549437241168702013-09-04T11:17:00.000+08:002020-05-13T11:02:44.657+08:00"The African expedition doomed for disaster"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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No, it wasn't our 2011 trip that was "doomed to disaster", but the 1913 expedition, <a href="http://capetocairo2011.blogspot.hk/2011/05/first-group-to-drive-by-car-cape-to.html" target="_blank"><b>about which I wrote in an early post</b></a> before our departure in 2011. I'm posting this a bit belatedly I'm afraid, but Tom Rowley of <i>The Telegraph</i>, which sponsored the 1913 expedition, did get in touch with me, then with my old school mate, Mark Hodgkin, whose grandfather was on the 1913 expedition. It makes<b><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10174069/The-African-expedition-doomed-for-disaster.html" target="_blank"> a great read</a></b>.... [<b>Update 2 April 2020</b>: the link is now a paid one. I’m sure they won’t mind I put a <b><a href="https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ab820fda9-4cde-4dc8-a854-c85eb414b9b9" target="_blank">PDF copy here</a></b>]</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874435365796865310.post-5288332879962719942011-10-21T22:58:00.000+08:002020-05-13T11:02:44.705+08:00Cairo!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Seven weeks, eight countries, 12,453 km and now we're in Cairo.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is how you get to Cairo: from Hurghada on the Red Sea, up the freeway to just south of the city of Suez, chuck a leftie and bingo! Cairo! And that's what we did yesterday.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Strange to be here, after all those weeks of getting up, often at 5:00 am, to squeeze into the 'Stang and drive on through the continent, and now, no more...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cheers<b> </b>to<b> </b>all<b>!</b></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Peter<b> </b></span></span></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Update (28th October 2011)</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">: Now basically finished on this blog, as the trip's over and I'm back in Hong Kong. Do feel free to comment on any post, though, as I'll be notified of comments and like to keep dialogue going with readers and participants.</span></span></span> </blockquote>
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<b style="color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Update (10th January, 2013):</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"> On the issue of </span><span style="color: red;">Aid to Africa</span><span style="color: #222222;">, which I said something about </span></span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://capetocairo2011.blogspot.hk/2011/10/enchanting-ethiopia-and-addis.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">here</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and </span><b style="color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://capetocairo2011.blogspot.hk/2011/10/lalibela-honey-eater-in-north-central.html" target="_blank">here</a>:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> an article in </span><i style="color: #222222;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Spectator</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, "</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8808521/the-great-aid-mystery/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The great aid mystery"</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, of 5th January 2013 is well worth a read. A companion piece asks why there should be an arbitrary goal of 0.7% of GNP "rink-fenced" for aid, which is counter-productive to its responsible deployment, in "</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8808581/greenings-challenge/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Greening's challenge</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">". </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Update (4 September, 2013): </b>Re </span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;">A</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;">id to Africa</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;">,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;">Joe Nocera writes in the </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;">New York Times</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;">, about Jeffrey Sachs and the factors in Africa's recently better economic performances: seeming to be less to do with aid and more to do with better governance and sounder economic policies.... </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/opinion/nocera-fighting-poverty-and-critics.html?ref=joenocera&_r=0" target="_blank">Fighting poverty and critics</a></b>. </i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;">[</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhcnRpY2xlc2FuZGxldHRlcnN8Z3g6NWY0ZjczNmM5ZTA5ZjQ1Mg" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;" target="_blank">pdf</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;">]</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Update (4 June, 2013)</b>: There's been a bit of activity on the <b><a href="http://capetocairo2011.blogspot.hk/2011/05/first-group-to-drive-by-car-cape-to.html" target="_blank">post about the first of these Cape to Cairo </a></b>trips in 1913 (or <i>attempt</i>, for they did not make it), and there's going to be more as well, about which I'll remain mum until it's out. </span><b><a href="http://capetocairo2011.blogspot.hk/2011/05/first-group-to-drive-by-car-cape-to.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span></span></blockquote>
<a name='more'></a>[Back to 21 October 2011]: We're driving (yesterday at dawn) up the Red Sea coast, east side, past mile on mile of new developments, with aspirational names, like Orlando, Malibu, Amalfi. Yes, this is the "Amalfi of Egypt", as in "Suzhou is the Venice of China".... as in, Suzhou's nothing like Venice and this highway in Egypt is nothing like Amalfi. Though it's water on our right and road winding past these developments, mostly unfinished, empty, unworked on, money burned, cemented into the sand.<br />
These lonesome developments are windswept as we drive by, 25-knot northerlies, the sea white-capped, Sinai on the horizon. We guess that it's windy a lot. The clue: a monster windfarm on our left, at least one thousand mills spinning in the breeze, the largest I've seen, bigger even than those in northern Germany and Denmark.<br />
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Today I'm in Al-Azhar park in Cairo, mixing with Cairenes, on this, their weekly day off. It's a fine park, newly reopened, neat tidy lawns, King Palms, outdoor cafs and folks strolling, picnics on the grass. Young girls of pre-veiling age, come up to me: "How arrre you? What is yourrrr name", the Arab trill in the "r", and they're friendly, open, wanting to practice their little English.<br />
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We've been to the Pyramids this morning with the cars, the aim to take their photo in a group in front, but the guys there say that we can't take photos with the cars as that's "advertising", and if we do we have to pay 3,000 Egyptian Pounds, about $US 500, so we leave them outside, take a few sneaky photos anyway, and head off for the requisite pyramid visit on foot.<br />
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I take a car in the arvo with driver Sayyid, who looks just like Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian intellectual and key proponent of the Muslim Brotherhood in the fifties. I say to him, "Sayyid as in Sayyid Qutb!" wondering how he'll take that, as the Brotherhood was illegal under Mubarak, and is now jockeying for position in the post-Mubarak era. "But Qutb is dead" he says. "Indeed, 1907 to 1963" I say, though I think I've got the dates a little wrong [*], "but you still look just like him, don't you". He smiles and we leave on our tour. I think it's just a matter of lack of communication. On several levels, I guess. I've read several of Qutb's books, "Milestones" and "Social Justice in Islam" that I recall, which remind me of the writings of Mao. He was a poisonous little man, sexually repressed, all of which comes through in his writings, and his poison infects the Muslim Brotherhood to this day.<br />
[*]: it's 1906-1966. More on Qutb <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb">here</a>.<br />
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And now, it's not my usual TTFN ("Ta Ta For Now"), but TTFG ("Ta Ta For Good") at least on this blog. Thanks to all for kind comments I've received via emails and third parties. It's been a fine, and thankfully safe trip, and now we all look forward to returns home and to meeting new friends made, sometime in the sometime. For me: tomorrow night back to Hongkers. Jing's not even going to be home to meet me, as she's in Rome with son John, and won't be back till next Thursday, so it'll be a welcome from Arlene and the three dogs. <br />
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Cheers and "goodbye and goodluck"!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mohammed -- of course! -- our horse buggy driver,<br />
who -- of course! -- ripped me off. I've 100% success in<br />
being ripped off in any exchange in Egypt...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sneaky photo of the mighty Mustang at our destination: the officials<br />
here wouldn't let us take photos of cars with Pyramid unless we paid $US 500 per car....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sayyid Ali the driver of the car I took round Cairo this arvo. The spitting<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I've been banging on a bit about learning<br />
Hyeroglyphs if you spend any time in Egypt.<br />
These fine ones are on the roof of Hathor's temple in<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gordie divvies up the last of our cash, on the last day....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then to the pyramids, Giza. Not many people, right? An outcome of the "Arab Spring"...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jus' like Hong Kong!.... kids and mums play in the Al-Azhar park, Cairo.<br />
All women wear veils or niqabs, unlike last time I was here, 1997, when it<br />
was about 10-15% -- growing Islamic identification.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Muhammad Ali Mosque, Cairo. At the top of the hill, at The Citadel.<br />
Mum with three kids, very common: birth rates in Egypt are really high<br />
as in all Africa. Most of the world's population increase<br />
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