Category: Europe
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Bristol Lodekka
One of the best driving buses I’ve ever driven and I’ve got to drive many other sorts including some preproduction vehicles when driving for a different European tour company.Love the crash gearboxes that TD had in them, the hum of a Gardner engine flat out at 80 kph (on a good day)were far better than…
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Life ❤️
Well I have done this all numerous times over the years.So I can’t complain about my Brain Injury!That’s life
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The Start Of My Life Of Adventure
Back in the 1980’s and 1990’s we had true adventures.I travelled with Top deck Travel in 1987 as a passenger.It made such an impression on me that I applied to be a tour manager for the 1988 season which I was unsuccessful.But they asked so many questions about my life racing sportscars and motocross (tail…
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Live Life Now And Not Later
Take the opportunity when you can, And live life to the max before it’s too late! I’m so glad to have travelled overseas extensively years ago, not of waited until I was older in life to do so. There’s nothing stopping you sell things and just do it. It’s called having an adventure.
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Large Self Loading Stock Truck (Bus)
I once drove an almost identical Vanhool Double Decker powered by a marine spec Mercedes turbocharged V8 engine.It flew when empty and was still a rocket when loaded with 85 passengers!Had many adventures in the 12+ months I worked for “Tracks UK/Europe”Had to sign a secrecy agreement with a government organisation on a few occasions,…
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Why Have I Have Changed In My Websites Name From Kiwi Pete’s Adventures?
So why have I renamed Kiwi Pete’s Adventures and moved all three of my websites into one? First of the rename is after a second person contacted me asking if I was the Kiwi Pete who had left them on the side the road in the middle of the USA? or I was the Kiwi…
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The Scandinavian Christmas Can Surprise You
A Merry Christmas from the Finnish Police a few years ago. A nice way to say be safe. I can remember the Finnish Police (and the Swedish and Norwegian) were all very friendly when I was driving Scandinavian Tours about north of the arctic circle in 1994. We just missed seeing the Snow ❄️ and…
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The Solution // Craig Bierly’s Wanderlust Way
So Right, live life when you can! Live it to the max now not later! I’m glad I have in the past! Life can change in a second! So live it now!
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First Overseas Experience
In 1987 I left my parents home, hopped on a plane and flew to the UK. Yes that’s the first time I rented a room (bedsit) and started my first O.E. (overseas experience)Cycle Toured around and about the UK for over two months. Then found a Job and saved up for a Tour of Europe…
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Past Life
When looking for something else I surprisingly found this inside an old book! A custom handmade very cool birthday card, that someone or a number of someones found time to make when we were all on TT1 1993! TT for Training Trip, 1 for the first of two for 1993. So “Top Deck Travel” and…
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DEAR BICYCLE
So right, this is a great video about the Bicycle! It got me thinking about how a Bicycle has taken me about this World. The uses a bicycle is used for every day about the world and how I have used a bicycle! For Work, picking up parts to going to a post office and…
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Taking To The Skies For Climate Change
Life is about taking risks! Be it like Danny here! Or Looking after the Earth for the future of us all. Remember the Sahara Desert was once a Rain Forest! Yes that’s right it was a Rain Forest once and I co drove from Morocco to Tunisia through the Sahara Desert and I saw no…
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Morocco Adventure
I tried a number of times to pass my UK DD Bus licence in the late 1980’s, returned home to NZ and once my Workplace closed down, I passed the NZ bus licence in 10 minutes!Flew back to the UK and drove DD Buses before moving onto driving with Africa Explored 🙈(renamed Africa Exploited by…
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First Modern Olympics, Greece
Panathenaic Stadium, is All-Marble was build to hosted the First Modern Olympics in Athens, Greece in 1896 Panathenaic Stadium is also known as Kallimarmaro can seat up to 50,000 people. Is white in a horseshoe shape and stands triumphantly under the shadow of the Acropolis and remains the world’s only arena made completely from marble.…
