Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Off to Caramulo

As I didn't take part in the trip my best memories of you guys last year are all from that one day (saturday) spent up in the mountain. I'll pick three moments, in no particular order:

1 - Ian sitting in the M3W, desperately trying to fasten his seatbelt to go up the hill with Duarte, suddenly (thanks to SBM's intiative) finds himself surrounded by grid girls legs and has to pose for a photo. There's a picture of this somewhere and it is really funny.

2 - Dinner at the museum. A lovely time for us all to know each other just a litle bit better, and in a perfect surrounding.

3 - Going up the hill with Jays as co-driver. It was an honour to have his trust, and a pleasure in the end to understand he enjoyed the experience.

Good moments, ones to remember and cherish.

Calum, I see you decided to go North, I wish you a safe journey through the Picos, you'll enjoy those roads and scenic views (The Wild Mogs can tell you also a thing or two about that particular region)

About Chaves (which btw, is correctly pronounced as "Shaavch" ) you took some great pictures as usual


Keep'em coming when you can, racer boy!

My best I will do. Taught by the master of the hill of Caramulo, I was. Just the paduan, am I. Yes, hmmm.

What neither Calum or Mario mentioned was that the entire team was disqualified under the new rules that limit the speed to the maximum you could do if you exactly stuck to the speed limits. Unfortunately the entire team was too fast and therefore disqualified.

Mario was going for the fastest time anyway and was only pipped on the last run by a car that was much more powerful. Certainly he was the fastest with a 2 litre engine. I was never in the running because I kept getting faster on the last section. Calum, on the other hand was consistently getting faster but by some mystery of timekeeping and scoring for speed was not only disqualified for excessive speed but having the best score of those disqualified walked away with the trophy for third place.

You have to love Portugal

P.S. sorry about the lack of photos. I will try to catch up with the details and some photos in the next couple of days.

In the mean time here are a couple of photos of a rather bemused Calum being enthusiastically congratulated on his success.

Who ... when ... what ... was that????

I now realize I left Caramulo much to early after the podium ceremony!!!!


PS - Calum, I think you should now post THAT picture you took up on the hill,


EDIT - Peter, I got our times, published them down below in the old "Caramulo" thread. You can also download them from the ndml.pt site if you want.

Yet people still wonder why we Scots wear the kilt.

Turns out that Peter and Alis stayed in the same hotel as me in Chaves last week. Beautiful place in the old fortress.
Here's his photo;



and mine, both taken in front of the chapel in the grounds.



I found the design of the clock to be particularly timeless.

Which picture would that be?

Beatiful Jag!

Meanwhile, I was sent this video by Diogo. Very cool me thinks, a work about the entire team!