Hi folks!
When picking up the Silver Spur in London, plans were after getting the car to go directly into the City and stay there for a day.
To be honest: I never drove a Rolls-Royce myself before. I started loving exactly this type of car when I was at the Penninsula in Hongkong in 1990 and got driven around with it.
Since then I had this type of Rolls-Royce in mind. Now I had one myself. But this thing is huge the first time you drive it. I came in from a right hand drive country just two hours ago and now I was supposed to drive an oil tanker on the wrong side of the street AND sitting on the wrong side as well? No way! So we skipped the city and headed off for Dover. I tell you I was sweating! The friend of mine always kept saying "stay on the left hand side, now you must turn to the left and STAY there and must not move to the right when cornering"!
It would have been a major catastrophe if I had gone to the City of London. Finally we reached M25 south of London an immediately I enjoyed the smooth ride with this big ship. I could test all the equipment and experienced that all of it worked fine - climate and cruise control were great to use! I felt good driving home in my very own dream car. It only took me seventeen years to get one - proud I was - others maybe never would fulfil such dreams.
Arriving in Dover I got keen and found it a pity not had gone to "Lunden".

Still it was the best choice and I did never really regret going home immediately. We took a late ferry and after reaching Calais we drove directly to Liege to stay for the night.
The next day was easygoing with the cruise control set to 60-65 mph which gave an average of less than 17 Liters per 100 km. We don't do this mpg-thing in Germany - whoever wants to convert that to US or Imperial gallons of pertrol/gasoline usage may feel free. 3,8 liter to the US or 4,2 liter to the Imperial gallon and 1,609 km to the mile. Go ahead!
Today after 3.000 miles with the car I already enjoy driving in big city traffic - I have absolutely no problem with the size of "Emily" - which is her name now. New tyres and new brake hoses were all what was needed so far. Sheer driving pleasure! Oooops - wasn't that a BMW slogan?

Okay, they own Rolls-Royce, I can live with that.
Bye for now, JimKnopf