Sheena has left us. It is a sad day.
After barely using her for the past 7 months we decided we had to let our beloved campervan Sheena go; she deserved more adventures. She has gone and we hopefully be happy with her new owners.
sniff sniff
Showing posts with label mazda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mazda. Show all posts
Monday, 7 September 2009
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Bugger
Tomorrow (or possibly today depending on when I post this) I am probably going to have to have the following conversation:
"hola! Hablar ingles?"
"no."
"Vale. Se puede reponer el parabrisas trasero de nos cochecama, por favor?"
"tal vez. Que le pasa?"
"choca con un arbol ayer."
Laughter will undoubtedly ensue at this point, followed by sucking of teeth, scratching of head, rapid burst of incomprehensible Spanish, hand gestures which we will probably interpret as indicating that our Madza is not a common make so a replacement rear windscreen wont be easy to find.
I hit an olive tree parking in the campsite. We now have a hole (temporarily plugged with mosquito net) and crazy paving effect in the rear view.
Bugger.
Later update:
Laughter did not ensue. As feared the Mazda E2200 was not sold in Spain, and indeed isn´t that common. The insurance company is on the case but finding a new rear windscreen may take a while. Car Glass (the Spanish version of Autoglass) did a decent job of taping up the window, so we´ll probably just find a nice campsite by the beach and hole up until we get furtehr instructions.
After the Rocket Festival, of course!
"hola! Hablar ingles?"
"no."
"Vale. Se puede reponer el parabrisas trasero de nos cochecama, por favor?"
"tal vez. Que le pasa?"
"choca con un arbol ayer."
Laughter will undoubtedly ensue at this point, followed by sucking of teeth, scratching of head, rapid burst of incomprehensible Spanish, hand gestures which we will probably interpret as indicating that our Madza is not a common make so a replacement rear windscreen wont be easy to find.
I hit an olive tree parking in the campsite. We now have a hole (temporarily plugged with mosquito net) and crazy paving effect in the rear view.
Bugger.
Later update:
Laughter did not ensue. As feared the Mazda E2200 was not sold in Spain, and indeed isn´t that common. The insurance company is on the case but finding a new rear windscreen may take a while. Car Glass (the Spanish version of Autoglass) did a decent job of taping up the window, so we´ll probably just find a nice campsite by the beach and hole up until we get furtehr instructions.
After the Rocket Festival, of course!
Monday, 10 March 2008
Van 2: Revenge of the Mazda
We have another van!
This time it's a blue Mazda conversion with all the kit - double bed, microwave, sink, grill, gas hobs, table, cupboards, CB radio, USB stereo, dashboard TV, even a mountain bike for those trips to the shop for milk!! Another ebay purchase, we drove over to RAF Brize Norton to pick it up on saturday. Was really nice to drive back actually - it wont go much above 55 mph but that's probably just as well with my driving; as a nice, final kick in the teeth from the last van fiasco I got done for doing 36 in a 30 mile zone driving back from Yeovil after the last van was consigned to the scraphead. So, yes, having a slow vehicle will probably help me stay on the right side of the law as well as the right side of the road, though this one is right hand drive.
Kate has christened it Flash - as it has a 'flash' (more of a grey stripe really) down the side and she thinks it's a bit of a try hard, an uncool vehicle trying to be cool, which I think is harsh. Anyway she really should have called it Slick - because that's what we found underneath it the next day. A load of oil leaking from somewhere onto the road.
Oh dear - we aren't having much luck are we?
This time it's a blue Mazda conversion with all the kit - double bed, microwave, sink, grill, gas hobs, table, cupboards, CB radio, USB stereo, dashboard TV, even a mountain bike for those trips to the shop for milk!! Another ebay purchase, we drove over to RAF Brize Norton to pick it up on saturday. Was really nice to drive back actually - it wont go much above 55 mph but that's probably just as well with my driving; as a nice, final kick in the teeth from the last van fiasco I got done for doing 36 in a 30 mile zone driving back from Yeovil after the last van was consigned to the scraphead. So, yes, having a slow vehicle will probably help me stay on the right side of the law as well as the right side of the road, though this one is right hand drive.
Kate has christened it Flash - as it has a 'flash' (more of a grey stripe really) down the side and she thinks it's a bit of a try hard, an uncool vehicle trying to be cool, which I think is harsh. Anyway she really should have called it Slick - because that's what we found underneath it the next day. A load of oil leaking from somewhere onto the road.
Oh dear - we aren't having much luck are we?
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