Miss Sydney, but my miss my family and friends more.
I swear if you could setup a sandwich shop like we have back home, you would make a killing here! 
No meat pies that I can find. Another skippy works in the office is trying to make sausage rolls, but difficult to find the right meat surprisingly.
You guys are making me hungry and I don’t even know what the heck a meatpie or sausage roll is…lol
Welcome . and glad to see a Nurbergring (sp?) sticker on a car that’s actually been around!!! So many BMW’s here with those stickers on!
Well considering I have done the Nurburgring in both my old MkIV Golf R32 and with the S4 I feel I have valid justification to put the sticker on! 8) I highly doubt many others can say they have done the same. Maybe with a rental car or something, but not their own car!
A sausage roll is a bit like a “pig in a blanket”, just way better. Meat pies are a mini pie with meat and gravy or anything else you might want.
Yeah, what’s with the lack of proper meat pies in North America? I lived in St. Leonard’s for 3 months and you were never far from a decent pie stand in Sydney. Loved Melbourne and Brisbane as well though; the Gabba, MCG and SCG are all special places to watch sport.
Good show love the back stroy and the car. Do you have any video.
no vegemite?
Meat pies are definitely the key to a good cricket, rugby or AFL match, along with much beer!
Got the vegemite too! You can get it now in “handy travel packs” 
Pure gold!
The close should be finished tomorrow so this weekend I should have time to upload some more pics and a few videos. Not sure if you guys remember the Episode of Top Gear a few seasons back where they got the Aston Martin N24, the Lambo Gallardo Superleggera and the Porsche GT3 (?)? Their first trip was from Monaco up the Col de Turini, half-way there they stopped under an old aqueduct to compare cars. I got some video of that trip. At one point they ended up in northern Italy and were on a car ferry on Lake Como. Well we did that too, even had the bloody GoPro setup. Thought it was recording, turns out it wasn’t! So bummed! 
Got a few nurburgring laps as well. Fun times.
I’m heading to Europe in the summer…but I want to arrange another Europe trip just for driving. I think it would be a fantastic time, put a couple thousand miles on a few awesome cars and visit some awesomeness like the davos to stelvio, the stelvio pass, Transfaragasan, the millau viaduct and a few stretches of autobahn and autostrada.
Who’s in? 
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I haven’t done the Stelvio pass but I’ve done the Millau viaduct. Really cool but in the middle of nowhere
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And the Autostrada in the Alps (the second one is the toll entrance into the 8km long Mont Blanc tunnel going into France).
AusStig How much to ship a car from NA to Europe?
saki - let’s go and take our cars! Otherwise we can borrow my dad’s 1.2L 3 cyl 55hp VW Polo
You could manage to get it shipped for about 1500USD port-to-port (pick up in Bremerhaven) on a RORO
Geico and Clemens have “international” car insurance about 2400USD for a year.
It cost us a bit more since we upgraded to a 40ft container and put it in with the household shipment since the company was also paying the customs/duties.
that’s not too bad I guess, I was thinking it would be a lot more.
I would love to go to europe and drive those roads, i guess I will just have to put up with the Blue Mountains. Australia has some pretty places but nothing like see the alps on the autostrada
Bells Line of Road is a good one. However, the ever-present party-poopers inhibit much of the fun.
Nevertheless, it’s not much fun in Switzerland also. I got done once by the Wwiss rozzers and, ummm, loss of licence is one thing but the fine is a percent of salary. Not good!
BUT the roads are awesome in Switz. Fluehler pass to name one.
BUT they can be rather nasty people, I never got so many times “cut-up” on the freeway cause of my Cali plates. Everyone else in Europe loved it, just not the Swiss.
The best road I had driven on was the highway from Milan to Genoa as you approach the Med (after you leave the foggy Milanese flats). Awesome pavement, great turns, good aggressive drivers (love how those Italians drive) and the view as you make your way down to the coast is breathtaking.
Then I drove down Mauna Kea in Hawaii (Big Island) from the summit to the Pacific ocean and although it was only a 2 lane road rather than a full highway, it managed to surpass the Italian highway.
I’m sure there are even better ones but I haven’t driven on them yet.
There is only one problem with roads like that, it is so hard to concentrate on the road and the view if your pushing it. Its a tough choice to pick one
Yeah that is a good road, I went down it the other day and it was pouring with rain. It was very sketchy to say the least, it would have been fine if I was in my Audi, but it was a 91 Mazda 323 with less than perfect front tires.
My other Favs out here are: Springwood Road, Galston Gorge, Old Pac Highway and Jenolan Caves Road
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Love that stretch of road!!! After being landlocked in Switzerland for the winter I would take a spring break in Monaco. The feeling you get as you come off the plateau and the med spreads out before you is amazing!
The way down can be a bit intimidating, particularly those bloody great big expansion joints on the bridges! The way back up is totally awesome! Did it once in the Golf R32 from Genoa to Milano in 45 mins! Dad sleeping in the back, mum reading, doing 200+kph ;D
Here’s two videos of me driving in Italy.
The first one I’m doing 190 kph (118 mph) and getting passed.
The second one I’m doing 180 kph (112 mph) and getting passed…again…
Unfortunately, I was driving an old beat-up 1990 Volvo 360 and 190 kph was about the max it would go
that last one passed you like you were standing still, I wonder what is was.