Don' worry I'm safe now. I could never understand it, there' about 7 different soaps on and she'd watch them all one after another and then tell.me off for messing around on my phone. It' not like I hadn't bought her her own telly to watch that crap. Its still in the kitchen....Think yourself lucky guys, my missus is into Turkish soaps ATM, Turkish language with Romanian subtitles...
Great pictures as always Clive thanks for sharing. Never been to Romania but my round cousin visited recently for a few days and couldn't share enough great things about the place.
One of my desires for many years after buying the cruiser has been to travel by car across Turkey to Eastern Europe so maybe this year that may materialise.
Great snow I'm looking to visit our Trodos mountains in the next couple of weeks and try out those KO'2
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Oops!Mmmm, just embarrassed myself (again).
Thought it would be nice to go up the lane in the snow...
I was confident it would be OK ‘cos all the lockers work now after fixing the connections on the rear one in the Autumn...
All very pretty and a bit of fun ....
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This is the descent down to the left hand bend over the (now piped) stream, slippery it was, snow over ice and its about -2C today (going colder).
So what follows is the ascent up to a tight right-hand bend, but half-way up the truck stopped, the wheels didn't, just the truck !
All 4 going round (all 3 lockers on) but no movement. Checking the mirrors, much to my annoyance only 3 wheels going round, the rear locker decided not to work again
And now I was moving, going backwards at this stage. Nasty, cos on the left is a 4’ ditch and I was approaching it, anyway it stopped just in time as luck would have it.
Out with the winch remote, hooked the line to a tree, winched up to the bend, then reversed up a gateway on the right and turned back, slithered all the way down the hill and then it was onward home.
Not happy, I hate it when things don’t work.
. It wasn’t a big tree admittedly, but because of the snow, I couldn’t see that it was barely in the soil, on the edge of the ditch.
Yep Dervis, my old faithful superwinch didn't let me down.
It was a struggle though, I couldn’t get out of the drivers (LHD) door cos I was right on the edge of the deep ditch, so had to climb over and out of the passenger side each time to get to the winch.
Came to pop the plug cover off (for the remote) and it was frozen in place.
Trying to get up the hill on foot was a struggle, it was so icy under the snow. I fell twice
Then on the first pull, I brought down the tree
Anyway, I found another tree close by that was more secure.
It was very cold, so I wasn’t planning to stay out too long. Always worth remembering to make sure you have sufficient survival kit with you. I was 10 minutes from home and could have walked it in an emergency, but it does make you think when your hands don’t work properly anymore, and everything is freezing solid. Even the sprung flip latch on the hook needed thawing out to get the rope through.
4x4 Adventuring at its best Clive living on the edge....hope you weren't alone you never know whats round the corner. Happy for you your ok even after two falls ....ouch
see Clives clever, takes 2 of each when out n about!
And you’ll be alright Nick as long as you’ve got your wings.
