we went on a road tour of Europe in 1972.,visiting various countries and camping on the way.I was on my BSA C15 and followed the rest of the family who were in my Dad's Ford Zephyr.At the first Camp-Site we stopped at somewhere in France my Mum was in the office with me trying to book in.We only spoke English and the camp-site proprietors didn't. After a few minutes of talking and obviously getting nowhere,my MUM shouted "WE-WANT-TO-CAMPY!!!" as if that made their grasp of English clearer!......
Later on we were in a market at a vegetable stall where my Dad was trying to indicate to the seller with a karate-chopping motion while shouting out "HALF!"....that he only wanted to buy half a cucumber...
a while later in Belgium,the radiator in the Zephyr started leaking .We stopped and my Dad said that an egg dropped in the rad would stop the leak temporarily,so he took the cap off,topped it up with water and dropped an egg in which after a few minutes was nicely poached but made no difference to the leak.We had to find a garage!
At a site in Ulm,Germany an old woman stood outside the toilet block and handed us ONE sheet of toilet-paper she tore off of a roll as we went in!...
At the end of our two week tour we ended up back in Ramsgate late at night and headed for home.After a mile or so my bike broke down,I flashed my lights at my Dad and pressed the horn but he kept going.I eventually got the bike started and arrived home in the early hours thinking they'd be worried where I'd got to...
.they were all in bed asleep!!.....





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