ozkid
Member
- Joined
- Aug 12, 2013
- Posts
- 227
Hi everyone, my first TR
A bit of an apology as well, as this trip was done in the last week of April, and I'm only posting now. Work has been crushing all year, and I've just managed to come up for air. The only consolation was I knew some time ago that I was in for a tough 6 months, so when a work trip to Vienna was on the cards, I deliberately tacked on this fun side trip before the serious stuff.
So with only a few days of leisure, and driving the Alpine mountain passes on the bucket list, I channelled the trio of Hammond, Clarkson and Captain Slow and pulled out the European map and plan to conquer the Stelvio Pass! As it turned out, not quite what I anticipated, but you'll have to read the blow by blow account below.
I'll split my posts into some logical (?) progression, with each day of the Top Gear side trip chronicled. I'll do a mini-review of the car I was finally given for this trip. I will describe my experiences of the flying and the lounge experiences, using QF and TK. The sequence was SYD-SIN (QF B744), SIN-IST (TK A333), IST-VIE (TK A321). The same occurred in reverse, with the exception of flying the A333 back from SIN to SYD.
Ok, enough hot air, let's get to the good bits
A bit of an apology as well, as this trip was done in the last week of April, and I'm only posting now. Work has been crushing all year, and I've just managed to come up for air. The only consolation was I knew some time ago that I was in for a tough 6 months, so when a work trip to Vienna was on the cards, I deliberately tacked on this fun side trip before the serious stuff.
So with only a few days of leisure, and driving the Alpine mountain passes on the bucket list, I channelled the trio of Hammond, Clarkson and Captain Slow and pulled out the European map and plan to conquer the Stelvio Pass! As it turned out, not quite what I anticipated, but you'll have to read the blow by blow account below.
I'll split my posts into some logical (?) progression, with each day of the Top Gear side trip chronicled. I'll do a mini-review of the car I was finally given for this trip. I will describe my experiences of the flying and the lounge experiences, using QF and TK. The sequence was SYD-SIN (QF B744), SIN-IST (TK A333), IST-VIE (TK A321). The same occurred in reverse, with the exception of flying the A333 back from SIN to SYD.
Ok, enough hot air, let's get to the good bits