Off to the Isle of Wight!

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:16 am

As of 10am this morning i shall be winging (well driving) my way down to the Isle of Wight for a 4 night stay with the missus.
So i shall be representing uk polos across the waters

will catch up with all the goss when i get back
take it easy all

-Ben-

walshc · Post by **walshc** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:09 pm

1.0 litre power all the way baby

have a safe one

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:13 pm

Lovely place, full of fit women and nice people. I did a job there last year and would love to go back.

CymruPolo wrote:Is that the place without any speed limits?

You're joking, there's more speed cameras than street lamps there

You're thinking of the Isle of Mann.

neilw · Post by **neilw** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:41 pm

Did you go on the Red Funnel Ferry? If you did it may of been my dad driving you over.

Yes there are speed limits and the only bit of dual carrage way is about 250meters long

dino · Post by **dino** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:47 pm

CymruPolo wrote:
omicron wrote:Lovely place, full of fit women and nice people. I did a job there last year and would love to go back.

CymruPolo wrote:Is that the place without any speed limits?
You're joking, there's more speed cameras than street lamps there

You're thinking of the Isle of Mann.
Ahh , I knew it was one of them

I thought it was the Isle of Wight too lol

neilw · Post by **neilw** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:49 pm

Oh.. and you dont need a passport to go there either. Before anybody says that

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:59 pm

neilw wrote:Did you go on the Red Funnel Ferry? If you did it may of been my dad driving you over.

Yes there are speed limits and the only bit of dual carrage way is about 250meters long

No, we went from Lymington, don't know why because it put about 40 miles on the trip. Knowing my work, it was probably 2 quid cheaper.

neilw · Post by **neilw** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:15 pm

Ahh Could of been my girlfriends dad then, coinsidently He's captain on the Wightlink from Lymington.

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:14 am

well i survived and arrived back in one piece last night.
had a good time and weather was kind to us!
i must say i didn't notice alot of birds (well i was driving most of the time :p)
the roads are absolutely shocking on the island! way too bumpy and i bottomed the car out quite abit. the worst bit was getting off of the ferry, i caught something and as per usual it sounded worse than it was!

there was alot of vag cars out and about including 3 Polo gti's a G40 and lots of mk5 gti's

-Ben-

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:09 pm

polopowah wrote:including 3 Polo gti's a G40 and lots of mk5 gti's

-Ben-

3 of the new GTi's?

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:14 pm

It's rather hilly as well, so it can be hard work in a lower-powered car. My Escort was struggling now and then.

You certainly need to keep an eye on what you're doing on the roads.

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:52 pm

ModifiedMadness wrote:
polopowah wrote:including 3 Polo gti's a G40 and lots of mk5 gti's

-Ben-
3 of the new GTi's?

nah the mk5 ones mate. one was black with keskin alloys on and dropped about 80mm (didn't have my flyers with me

)
other two were silver.

-Ben-

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:54 pm

omicron wrote:It's rather hilly as well, so it can be hard work in a lower-powered car. My Escort was struggling now and then.

You certainly need to keep an eye on what you're doing on the roads.

couldn't agree more!
i found i had to keep dropping it a gear to cope.
It was also the first time i let the other half get behind the wheel of my car, she stalled it a few times because the roads were abit steep for 4th gear lol

-Ben-