Travel in Style with Europcar
This month we have teamed up with two fantastic companies in Europcar and bmibaby to offer a competition prize that’s well worth winning – particularly for anyone intersted in travel….
The prize includes two parts:
** a 2 day car hire with a Prestige vehicle from Europcar
** return flights to Belfast with bmibaby
Sound good? Absolutely!
To win the car hire and the flights, all you have to do is answer the following:
If I could drive anywhere in the world to have fun, I would drive to ……
The most entertaining answer for the destination AND the reason why will be the winner. Don’t be afraid to link your answer to a blog post too if you have some special travel tips to share.
Just add your answer in the comments below before 2pm on Tuesday 23rd August 2011 and you’re in with a chance. Simples.
You can read the full terms and conditions here.
If I could drive anywhere in the World right now I’d drive across American to Catalina Island on the California coast, via The Chicago diner for one of their legendary reuban sandwiches, to meet up with my good friend Cathy to have a cup of tea, a hug, and a giggle.
I would drive from Dallas to San Francisco, with stops in Las Vegas and at the Grand Canyon in between.
Was planning to do this last autumn, and had to cancel the trip in the end … I’d still love to do it.
I’ve always fancied getting the ferry to Santander and then driving west through Green Spain to Santiago de Compostela then down along the rugged Galacian coast, through Portugal and on to Southern Spain. We’d explore all the country places you never normally get to see. It would have to be with my husband and I’ve no idea what we’d do with the car when we got there
If I could drive anywhere in the world to have fun, I would drive to Turin, Italy. Using the same route that would have been used for the 1969 film the Italian Job. That film gave me the bug as a kid to want to drive as soon as I was old enough. I wouldn’t treat the rental car as roughly as the Mini’s and I wouldn’t only go and blow the bloody doors off.
If I could drive anywhere in the world to have fun it would be Nova Scotia. Nova Scotian roads are the roads I know best in the world, and they have the most fantastic scenery that changes from moment to moment. One minute it’s beautiful ocean views, then the rolling hills of the valley and it’s charming University town Wolfville (where the best apples in the world come from), and finally the thrill of the legendary Cabot Trail(and not just due to the potholes one must learn to doge in NS).
After all that driving it would be off to find a ceilidh for some good company, great music, fantastic local brews, and if you are lucky some fresh seafood!
I would create an underwater car and be the first to drive from London, UK to Boston, USA. Chilling with all the fish and whales at the bottom of the Atlantic would be unmissable!
If I could drive anywhere in the world to have fun, I would drive to Austin, Texas. The place literally rocks – it’s the ‘Live Music Capital of the World’. Give me a free platinum pass to SXSW & and I would paint the town red, white and blue! Me & my friends would load up on tequilas in Guero’s (the bar that was used in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Death Proof’) whilst being massive movie geeks and reciting dialogue from the film. We would naturally be listening to the movie soundtrack! To shake off the Grand Canyon size hangover the next day, we would spend some time kayaking down Town Lake accompanied by our close friend, Jack Daniels.
If I could drive anywhere in the world, I would drive down the M23 to Brighton, drive onto the pier, get drive-thru style service for a bag of doughnuts and then drive straight back to London with a bunch of police cars in tow. But I wouldn’t mind as my mouth would be full of very tasty, sugary, fresh, hot doughnuts!
East Coast of England, Highlands, Monaco, The Mountainous route through Yorkshire that also appears in one of the episodes in Top Gear for Jaguar, Switzerland, Austria and through Italy.
If I could drive anywhere in the world to have fun, I would drive to Brittany on the Atlantic coast of France and eat nothing but oysters and Breton cider until I was sick.
I would drive to Buenos Aires for the long weekend. I’d binge on red wine, great night life and probably pick up a restaurant tip from my favourite Buenos Aires food guide, http://pickupthefork.com/. The drive would be tricky and perhaps require a floating/flying car BUT having been back in the UK for just 4 months after living there for a year I’m getting serious withdrawl symptoms!
Given that my wife’s family all live in Belfast, I would fly to Belfast, and we’d enjoy the craic in the very wonderful Crown Liquor Saloon. To work off the inevitable hangover, I would then use my (hopefully capacious) hire car to drive out to the North Antrim coastline with my bike in the back, and enjoy some of the fantastic scenery – assuming it wasn’t raining, of course!
Hull.
It’s not that it would be particularly enjoyable – it’d just make everything else seem like a lot more fun by comparison.
…To and in the Mongol Rally!! Desert, mountains, grassy steppes – I think I could cope with that, it is, after all for charity.
If I could drive anywhere in the world to have fun, I would drive to the lovely Emerald Isle of Ireland where the people are so green and the fields are so friendly and make my way to Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare for the annual Matchmaking Festival. In a very crowded field of bizzare events this must qualify as one of the world’s strangest festivals!
If I could drive anywhere in the world to have fun, I would drive to Baikonaur in Kazakhstan so that I could witness a Soyuz launch. I’ve seen a shuttle launch, but since the shuttle is retired the Soyuz is the only thing that can currently take people up to the international space station. In an ideal world, I’d be on the Soyuz rocket when it launched, but failing that, I’d like to wave off one of the lovely astronauts (or cosmonauts) I’ve been lucky enough to meet.
I would drive as far away from work possible.
If I win, I’m going to throw a dart at a map of Ireland and drive to wherever the pin lands. When I get there, I’m going to drink a pint of Guiness, take some photos and write a blog about the place I’ve ended up.
Oh, and if my fiancee sleeps in, I’m totally going to sneak off in the morning and get in a quick round of golf before we have to head back. And for good measure, I’m going to blog about that too.
If I could drive anywhere in the world to have fun, I would drive to New Delhi, India to visit the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets. I think that anyone who has dedicated such time to something, admit it, we all use so regularly, deserves a visit. Dr. Pathak really loves his toilets and I just gotta meet the guy who thinks so highly of them that he would start a museum for them!
Dr. Pathak is living and he must be a lot of fun to have started this place. The link below is to his website for the museum. So, I too would like to ‘join the sanitation crusade’ and see what it’s all about! I will be packing my own toilet paper because I don’t see that museum anywhere close by.
http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org
If I could drive anywhere in the world right now I’d drive to a book shop and pick up another copy of “In Patagonia” by Bruce Chatwin then armed with my video camera I’d pop down to Argentina and follow in Chatwin’s footspteps.
On the journey I would stop at each place Chatwin did and find someone to cook a local dish from with and video the making of the dish.
I’d upload it on my blog with all the ingredients so “the folks at home could cook along”. What is amazing about Argentinean food is the healthy mix of all the best bits of European cuisine with very native roots.
The quest here for me is discovering how Chatwin made the trip in 1974 with only a back pack and a moleskin notebook. I can never get my head round how HUGE Argentina is with jungle at one end and ice at the other. One day I’ll live there and it is vital for me to understand this place on its own terms.
Why? This would make for a varied and interesting drive, besides I have always wanted to send a telegram like Chatwin did – “Have gone to Patagonia.”
I’d drive down to Venice, where I’d ditch the car. Just for a few days – and not in the water. That would be silly. How would I get back otherwise?
If I could drive anywhere in the world to have fun,
then I would drive to Belfast
I would fly on the plane, that I won through this game
Pick up my hire car, go site seeing and zoom very far
Preying that my petrol would last
If I could drive anywhere in the world to have fun,
then I would drive to Belfast
I would find a hotel right next to a pub
I’d park up my hire car and go for some grub
Then join the locals for a right boozy fast!
Oh yes I would drive to Belfast ;-)
My nan was originally from Nigeria but has lived in London for the last 50 years. She has flown back to Nigeria each year, and the connecting flight has always been Zaire.
She just recently mentioned that throughout 50 years of flying via Zaire, she has never left the airport. She has heard wonderful things about Zaire (and she wouldn’t know where to start with using a computer, let alone the Internet!) – people have mentioned to her that not many places compare to Zaire’s beauty but she has never been exposed to any images of Zaire in her lifetime.
So if I had the chance, I would drive my Nan through Zaire for a week, using the power of the Internet to map out the best places to visit and to find the best route – something my Nan couldn’t comprehend on how it all works but would certainly be able to enjoy the ride.
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If I could drive anywhere in the world to have fun, I would do a roller coaster roadtrip though the US, trying to visit the fastest, highest and weirdest roller coasters. I still haven’t properly figured my route out, but there are definitely a couple of awesome sounding roller coasters I want to visit.
Six Flags Magic Mountain (in California) would be top on my list with 18 roller coasters, including the Superman (3rd tallest steel roller coaster at 126m, and 3rd tallest drop at 100 m), and the X2 and Green Lantern, which are both 4th dimension roller coasters (the seats rotate and flip during the ride as well).
Then there is Six Flags Great Adventure (in Ohio) which has the Kingda Ka, which is the world’s tallest roller coaster (139m), has the tallest drop (127m), and is the 2nd fastest (206 km/h, only one faster is the Formula Rossa in Ferrari World in Dubai and goes 240 km/h).
The third park I’d really want to visit is Cedar Point, which has 17 roller coasters, including the 2nd tallest steel roller coaster at 130m and 3rd fastest at 190 km/h, the Top Thrill Dragster (is it just me, or is that a horrible name for a roller coaster?) and the Millenium Force, the longest US roller coaster.