Long day! 10:25 AM Tukiyooo 0 <span style="font-size: large;">Early start yesterday up at 6.30am to get on the road to Belfast for the Smart Car Rally.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Here's a report written by Amy for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Smart-Car-Rally/131167930286810?fref=ts">Smart Car Rally Facebook</a> page:</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">September 2012 Belfast Trip Report: Enid & I left Dublin at approximate 7am and arrived at the Boucher Crescent Smart/Mercedes garage at 9.30am. Coincidentally we arrived at the same time as Gerry & Shay from the Dublin Smart Car Rally!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">We were greeted in the garage by some lovely folk from the Ulster Cancer Foundation who took our donation and gave us the clues</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">for the rally. We then were dir</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">ected to another garage to the staff restaurant where we had a fantastic Ulster fry to keep us going for the day. (quick aside: we had Bones the dog with us who made a show of us by climbing up on to the table - he never does that - and was immediately turfed out by chef. Silly Bones!). We poured over the clues and saw that we it was a considerable length - 156miles in total!</span></span><br /><div class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Quick media photo outside and we were off! Very convenient for E&I we were behind Gerry, who was behind Shay & Alice, so we let them lead the way and we enjoyed the scenery. Stopped off halfway for a scheduled stop (part of the rally) for soup and sandwiches. Another media photo shoot and we resumed tour.<br /><br />We finished up in the Carn Smart garage in Portadown where we had some lovely refreshments - tea, coffee, sandwiches, sausage rolls & chicken goujons. Had nice chat with a few Smartie people. We did not meet any people from this page :-( Prizes and goodie bags were given out and Enid and I then set off home.<br /><br />We arrived him approximate 8.30pm that evening. It was a long days driving for poor Enid! Next year we would probably stay over...<br /><br />Overall a great day. Fantastic hospitality as always from Smart of Belfast. Met some lovely people and saw some beautiful parts of Northern Ireland.<br /><br />Anyway on the subject of next year - we hope to arrange a 2013 Dublin meet up! Probably along the lines of: meet in the Phoenix Park for a "tailgate party" - to chat about Smarts, have a look at everyone's car, some eats and tea :-) and then a Smart parade/convoy drive around the Phoenix Park. Watch this space!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Diwti-GK3U7MB94CDSXTo3t-sBPgyqBT_KYqUfPgnb-xKbIvVLXPLi79GKzQElQ3Dwg7Ln71gFwMBlXLCfjBxJkrD-5m5EIC3C1GFnwhGNHKc7Bgx2cdB8NnGGMsnXLsrmgawG5-2yMA/s1600/IMG_2079%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Diwti-GK3U7MB94CDSXTo3t-sBPgyqBT_KYqUfPgnb-xKbIvVLXPLi79GKzQElQ3Dwg7Ln71gFwMBlXLCfjBxJkrD-5m5EIC3C1GFnwhGNHKc7Bgx2cdB8NnGGMsnXLsrmgawG5-2yMA/s320/IMG_2079%5B1%5D.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> Long day! Early start yesterday up at 6.30am to get on the road to Belfast for the Smart Car Rally. Here's a report written by Amy for the Smart C... Read more »
Long day!
Long day!
