On 13 Jun 2005 at 21:13, Bob W wrote:

> One of my brothers has a house in Les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. First time he
> drove there in his Discovery the brakes failed on the way down one of the 
> windy
> roads up there. Luckily he had lots of toilet tissue with him. He managed to 
> get
> down the mountain, and promptly uprated the brakes to whatever the highest 
> spec
> is. I've driven on some of the roads up there between France and Italy, and it
> is very scary.

Ahh great fun, I had a new little Citroen Xsara, made it work for its money but 
on some really great bend I got stuck behind an old dude in an Aston Martin DB7 
for miles :-(


Rob Studdert
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