Gran Cagada

Ayer vi una noticia en la que leí una cosa que no me creía que pudiera pasar, pero sí. Antonio Lobato seguira dciendo tonterias el año que viene en La Sexta. Por qué lo han hecho? No voy a discutir que después de tanto tiempo Antonio no sea un “experto de la F1″ (a Fernando le conoze mejor que nadie, al resto…), pero la manera en la que narra las carreras no es la ideal.Por no hablar de las traducciones que hace en las ruedas de prensa dejándose la mitad de las palabras que dicen e incluso a veces cambiando verdad Antoñito? Para eso mejor cállate y deja que los pilotos hablen en inglés.

Bien, pues esto pasó esta temporada, se nota que hasta Fernando está un poquito cansado de él.

En telecinco hay otra persona que sabe bastante más, no es otra que Gonzalo Serrano, que dejará la cadena también tras el GP de Brasil. Ojalá los directivos de La Sexta recapaticen y den marcha atrás y se quede con Gonzalo y Pedro como comentaristas, entonces si que tendremos un buen equipo de comentaristas. Aunque yo prefiero que prescindan también de Pedro Martínez de la Rosa y éste este en la pista dando espectáculo como él bien sabe.

Leopadstrip

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This is the new blog dedicated to the 4th  occupant of the car in our imminent road trip that, at the moment I am not going to tell you more. Here you could see the daily adventures of this new stowaway on board. Where he goes, who he meets everything about him. Soon, online. At the moment you can read his own introduction to the world and some of his travels since he was born some moths ago, not even 1 year.

Road trip around Europe (Madrid – Ipswich)

Ford Fiesta

As some of you know, next week I’ll take part in an adventure with my brother (Roberto), a friend (David) and of course my car (Fiesta). This road trip is because I wanted to have my car in winter here in Ipswich because at 16:30 is dark and coming by bike from work is not the nicest pleasure ever, but also because it is time to start running again and join a club here in England.

Any way, let’s back to the trip. We’ll depart from Madrid on the 5th of November of 2008, it has to be early in the morning, around 8:00/9:00 because this first stage will go from Madrid to Bourg in France stopping in “Burgos”, San Sebastian, where we will have lunch trying the famous tapas of the city in order to continue afterwards all the way to Bordeaux crossing the border in Irun. Once in France we will go next to the coast for a few kilometres, but I guess that the best landscapes we are going to find will be in the National Park of Les Landes, park that we cross from south-west to north. We will continue a bit further from Bordeaux to arrive to Bourg where we will stay for the first night.

What’s going on in the second day? Ok in this day, the route is not that long, which gives us a bigger range in the timetable, however the problem is the visit to a Chateau and we depend here of the opening timetable. So the day will end in an small village close to Blois, which is in the Chateau’s zone, monsieur Brossard is the one that is going to choose the Chateau that we are going to visit (he is the French in this trip, so he is the expert in this kind of issues).

Paris

The shortest driving day is the third one (Friday), day that we reach the city of love, Paris, where we are going to stay in a hotel close to the centre of this city and where we are going to meet people that have been living in Ipswich at some point in the past and that are now living there. Hopefully we will meet all of them and we go out for dinner and drinks that night, remembering the times when we were here in lovely Ipswich. During this day in Paris we want to visit the city because not David, but my brother and me we stayed there when we were kids and since then only me has gone there but for work so it is going to be nice to remember the city with the Champs Elysees, the Eifel Tower and Notre Dame.

The following day drives us out of France for first day in this trip and we end up in Bruges, an old town in Belgium, but before of this we have a technical stop in Mons to pick Dani up and take him with us this day where a few of the Ipswich people is going to Bruges as well in order to know the town, visiting as well the Béguinage in the town centre of Bruges, as well we’ll have a fun and funny night there where we will have to try some of this Belgium beers.

We have reached the last day of our trip. Day, Sunday, elected to arrive home, lovely Ipswich. In this day we have to leave Bruges early as well because we have to drive all the way to Holland to catch the ferry from Hoek Van Holland (next to Rotterdam) and coming all the way to Harwich (do you remember this David ). 6 hours by ferry with the car inside the boat and showing the sunshine at the beginning of the North Sea. Then from Harwich to Ipswich I’ll be the driver because I want to know from the very beginning in the UK the feeling of drive in the other side of the road with my “cuca”.

So this is a brief description of the road trip/holidays through west Europe starting in the “Sun” and finishing in the “Cloud”.