A place to park the occasional gem…
- “It’s a good job these shoes aren’t white any more or they wouldn’t match my trousers.”
- (In Amsterdam) “I wonder whether you get a lot of Dutch people going to Venice.”
“I knew it (the route) was going to be bad when I rode past a construction site with all the bike path signs piled up in the corner.” - “I think that we can safely say the Dacia Duster is the new Lada Niva.”
- “Did you see that really good looking nut with inbuilt serrated washer on the ground in that last layby?” (in his defense, we do see a lot of nuts and bolts on the floor as we cycle along)
- “When you go on a journey like this it’s quite important to bring dark-coloured underwear, so that it doesn’t show as it gradually turns grey.”
- Doris, somewhere in rural Greece: “Wow! A Porsche! When did you last see a Porsche?” [note: a rhetorical question to which a “normal” answer would be “Good spot! I bet not many people here in remote rural Greece have Porsches!” – D.] Sid: “Two days ago in the Athens suburbs we saw a 911s and a Cayenne. Before that in Istanbul we saw two Boxters and a 911 4S…” (etc goes on for several minutes working back over most of the trip)
- On the subject of the possible stay in the Naturist Hotel:
“It is hard enough to do an Epic Journey, without doing it not wearing a gorilla suit.”
[This is a variation on his comment on the wisdom of taking an imperfectly-prepared Peugeot 504 to Cape Town: “It is hard enough to run a marathon, without doing it wearing a gorilla suit.”] - Looking at Doris’s pasta dinner one night:
“Wow! Not many people would eat pasta that looks like maggots!” - Thinking about the forthcoming Significant Wedding Anniversary:
“You know, I hadn’t realised that it would be my anniversary too”.
