Europe Driving Holiday

We were on an European driving holidays on September and October 2007 with Harry and wife. We flew into London early in the morning on 12th September 2007 from Kuala Lumpur. At the immigration counter in Heathrow Airport we were expecting some tidious queries as always read in Malaysian newspaper about visitors from Malaysia. To our surprise the immigration officer was very polite and normal questions of purpose of visit and duration of stay were pose, however this was done off in less than five minutes and our entry stamp on our passport were done. We waited for about 25 minutes for Harry to pick us up in his Mercedes T series car. The weather in London at 6.30am were crisps at temperature of about 19 degree C. Although Harry's house were about 11 miles from airport, the drive seem to take ages of 45 minutes. Harry's residence is sited on a private estate of around 200 houses, the compound in the estate were well kept and most of the houses have no gate or perimeter fence. The most common are tall hedges and most house look very tudor design. After our lugguage were carted into the guest room we sat down to have a full english breakfirst of becon and eggs with toast.

Harry and Lily's garden is so beautiful, the flowers were in full blooms of red, yellow, orange and purple. On 15th September we are pack and drive to Suffolk in North East of London about 160 miles to meet up with Harry's friends for a English cottage retreat. It is in a village very off the beaten country and nice greenery and quite countryside. The buildings consist of a great hall build in the 15th hundreds, the individual cottage are also of that period but renovated to include modern sanitary and kitchen. The weather is this out countryside is very cold, we are freezing with cold. Harry's friend Nick and girlfriend Alison prepare great lunch of curry and cheese down in fine wine to wash down with meal. The next day Nick organise a golfing for 2 party at the nearby golf course. At night we drove to the village centre to watch the World Rugby Tournament held in France over sky tv at the local pub.

The next day we drove to the seaside town about 20 miles away to enjoy the big surf and high wind by the coast. We spot a gathering of Lotus 7 collector club outing at the beach. We were surprise by the numbers and distant these collectors and entueist coming from Switzerland, Germany and France. That night the whole party of us had a gathering of dinner at these beach village pub. The prices for the dinner are quite pricy.

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