Enjoyed reading of your trip Alistair, brings back happy memories, I also liked the term "Rumbling along," very apt and reminiscent of my good lady and I`s similar trip in my old +8, whereby we used the m/way network to get down to Sorrento, over a few days, using it as a base to discover the area on the return leg we took much longer, often using back roads, and getting pleasantly lost ( using paper maps) to find our way back up through Italy and France...10 out of 10 for the old tec +8 trad Mog on such a trip as it did not miss a beat. Sorry to read of your tec issues, but I would trust my old Mog more on such a trip than my 991.1 C4S..... Typed like a true Luddite... (-:
