In the seventies My wife came with me on a trip to Teheran. Whilst in the que at bazargan along comes the little lad with his bucket full of eggs that he was trying to sell to the drivers, having bought half a dozen eggs and some fresh salad from his mate, we thought that we could have some boiled eggs and salad for tea. Having boiled the eggs, on slicing them open found that the yokes had a black ring around them and the whites were a bit rubbery, however they tasted ok.As we didn’t have a fridge in those day’s, we decided to have an omelet with our next meal, so I tried to crack open one of the remaining eggs to find that it was already hard boiled, so i called to my wife, catch this and threw the egg across the cab to her.She was not amused until she found out why it didn’t break. regards jamie.
I noticed this drawing on BMI-Finland’s thread recently. Robert
There were some places in Kaz where the shops were empty and had nothing, the locals bought food and provisions from us. It wasn’t to bad if you were prepared to trade and knew what was coming, but sometimes a bit overwhelming when half the village turned up looking for a loaf of bread, and you had nothing yourself…
Jeff…
David Miller:
Dead on Jeff. I never fried in the cab - part smell and part fire risk - better off the trailer box for that.I liked the tins that the label had fallen off - it made for a bit of excitement at meal times. But M&S did a really good tinned chicken curry - always had some of that on board.
A certain guvnor of the best company that I worked for was famed for being tight and would load all the battered, lableless cans that were left in trailer boxes into the boot of his Merc and take them home!
Well it made us laugh anyway.
David
Fred wrote :- If he had a mouthful of gumboils he wouldn’t give you one, when he went to heaven he tried to nick the gates - RIP TT
Heres one for the ex M/E boys = Just been into Weatherspoons at Petersfield for lunch and looking thru the me and you I noticed that they had Efes among their list of world beers - how about that then ? although I thought that it was spelt with 2 f’s - I didn’t indulge as I am TT and a non smoker also make all of my own dresses 
Good o’l Fred - What a wealth if information - Cheers all.
freshir:
Heres one for the ex M/E boys = Just been into Weatherspoons at Petersfield for lunch and looking thru the me and you I noticed that they had Efes among their list of world beers - how about that then ? although I thought that it was spelt with 2 f’s - I didn’t indulge as I am TT and a non smoker also make all of my own dresses
Yes they don’t put so much arsenic and stricknine in it now; plus it is no longer compulsory to wear driving clogs or dealer boots to drink it. It only has one ‘f’ because Efes is how the Turks spell Ephesus (we use the Greek spelling), where I think it was originally brewed. Bottoms up! Notice I can spell all these flippin’ foreign words but I can’t spell strickneen!! Robert
Tracked down ‘Albert.’
dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-wo … ck-1118803
You can make a bid for it this coming Sunday.
Gotta love the N/S mirror!
Very interesting H i hope someone writes this epic journey, and wish i could travel with it, dont think the wife will let me though, would be interesting to know the route and where they will cross the water to aussie.
In my middle east days, we often met travellers in volkswagen campers making that journey to australia, and i often wondered how they got across the sea.
I think its all there in the second link,Trucky? Skimming over it I think it was shipped to Oz by sea & is now up for auction on Sunday ,March 9,2014.
robert1952:
Wherever possible, I took a leaf out of Jogger John’s book (John Roberts) and bought local fresh meat, vegetables, fruit etc by the wayside. It was more fun too, to stand in village shops and haggle over grub that you would have to take care over by the trailer box. Dave Clarke off Whittles and later pulling for DTS on Morocco work was the same - always wonder into labyrinthine alleys for bits of food. It is no coincidence that they were both excellent cooks. I can vouch for this because I ran with both of them many times. Robert0
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Hiya whats the name of the chap sitting down with the ponytail■■? please. a chap opened a site on the professionals site
asking if anyone knew of chap they nicknamed two feathers who did continental work.this chap had a ponytail. on the site
this chap got no help then seemed to leave TN .as he was treated like a joke. i just wondered if this is the two feather chap.
Thanks a lot
John
harry:
I think its all there in the second link,Trucky? Skimming over it I think it was shipped to Oz by sea & is now up for auction on Sunday ,March 9,2014.
Hullo Harry,
Yes your right, it’s in Oz and as you say going under the hammer this weekend.
When I first saw your post I took a look at the link. Bloody Hell, I read the full page about them looking for a Crew in the way of Sponsors. The more I read the more interested I became, I called the Missus in to read it too. Wow! What an Adventure, We were really up for that at £2500 each, it sounded great, it was fantastic. We were ready to contact the man to see what our chances were. Really excited. Then I looked at the website and saw that the report we had just read was from a newspaper, written two years ago. Further reading on the site also told how their trip started and continued with a lot of bad luck involved. But what a trip it could have been eh ? We were really up for it. Choked 
Now back to original plans, Thailand and Oz with a hire car, and then a Camper Van, as we have done on previous occasions.
Archie.
robert1952:
freshir:
Heres one for the ex M/E boys = Just been into Weatherspoons at Petersfield for lunch and looking thru the me and you I noticed that they had Efes among their list of world beers - how about that then ? although I thought that it was spelt with 2 f’s - I didn’t indulge as I am TT and a non smoker also make all of my own dressesYes they don’t put so much arsenic and stricknine in it now; plus it is no longer compulsory to wear driving clogs or dealer boots to drink it. It only has one ‘f’ because Efes is how the Turks spell Ephesus (we use the Greek spelling), where I think it was originally brewed. Bottoms up! Notice I can spell all these flippin’ foreign words but I can’t spell strickneen!! Robert
Whats wrong with Dealer boots I still get 2 pairs of Loak’s shipped out every year, The light tan ones, not the black ones, you can buy Efes in Hobart.
Other than a short spell in furry clogs in the 80’s I’ve been wearing them since high school.
Jeff…
Keep on trucking,Archie!
That’s where I will be retiring soon ,the bonkers land of smiles. After a lifetime of roaming all over the place it’s hard for long distance truckers to just stop … I’m very comfortable in UK but it’s not what you call a quality of life. I need to travel ASAP. 
Jelliot:
robert1952:
freshir:
Heres one for the ex M/E boys = Just been into Weatherspoons at Petersfield for lunch and looking thru the me and you I noticed that they had Efes among their list of world beers - how about that then ? although I thought that it was spelt with 2 f’s - I didn’t indulge as I am TT and a non smoker also make all of my own dressesYes they don’t put so much arsenic and stricknine in it now; plus it is no longer compulsory to wear driving clogs or dealer boots to drink it. It only has one ‘f’ because Efes is how the Turks spell Ephesus (we use the Greek spelling), where I think it was originally brewed. Bottoms up! Notice I can spell all these flippin’ foreign words but I can’t spell strickneen!! Robert
Whats wrong with Dealer boots I still get 2 pairs of Loak’s shipped out every year, The light tan ones, not the black ones, you can buy Efes in Hobart.
Other than a short spell in furry clogs in the 80’s I’ve been wearing them since high school.Jeff…
Never been without a pair of dealers, rocking a pair of Blundstones as I type this, they’re made in Tasmania according to the writing on the pull strap, best pair of boots I’ve had yet 
Archie there’s a bus service runs from Istanbul to Singapore, it’s the same mob that did the London Sydney thing a few years back, My mum was thinking of doing it 9 to 14 weeks depending on what route you go I think it’s about 4.5 - 6 grand a seat all up again depending on what route you go. Last time I looked they were going Turkey, Iran, Uzbek round the north east side of the Himalayas, and down into Tibet, not sore where they were going after that… Try Bus to Oz… Nova tours are now doing accompanied 4x4 tours of China, they’re part of the Chinese government, I had a mate that did it last year and loved it.
Newmercman all Blundstones are now made in China, the head office is still on Sunderland street Moonah ( Hobart ) next to Toll’s yard. They made the last pair of boots there in 2011, just after they got a hand out form the state government. Genuine Moonah boots are now worth a lot of money, changing hands locally for over twice the old shop price.
Jeff…
3300John:
robert1952:
Wherever possible, I took a leaf out of Jogger John’s book (John Roberts) and bought local fresh meat, vegetables, fruit etc by the wayside. It was more fun too, to stand in village shops and haggle over grub that you would have to take care over by the trailer box. Dave Clarke off Whittles and later pulling for DTS on Morocco work was the same - always wonder into labyrinthine alleys for bits of food. It is no coincidence that they were both excellent cooks. I can vouch for this because I ran with both of them many times. Robert0
1
Hiya whats the name of the chap sitting down with the ponytail■■? please. a chap opened a site on the professionals site
asking if anyone knew of chap they nicknamed two feathers who did continental work.this chap had a ponytail. on the site
this chap got no help then seemed to leave TN .as he was treated like a joke. i just wondered if this is the two feather chap.
Thanks a lot
John
The bloke in the pony-tail is Richard Hatton, a Middle-East driver who used to work for GBV in West Bromwich driving a Dutch-spec 142. A good bloke. The other one was Paul Bowles who drove for Matthews, which means I must have taken that picture in Hungary, not Rumo because Matthews didn’t go beyond Hungary I don’t think. Robert
Jelliot:
robert1952:
freshir:
Heres one for the ex M/E boys = Just been into Weatherspoons at Petersfield for lunch and looking thru the me and you I noticed that they had Efes among their list of world beers - how about that then ? although I thought that it was spelt with 2 f’s - I didn’t indulge as I am TT and a non smoker also make all of my own dressesYes they don’t put so much arsenic and stricknine in it now; plus it is no longer compulsory to wear driving clogs or dealer boots to drink it. It only has one ‘f’ because Efes is how the Turks spell Ephesus (we use the Greek spelling), where I think it was originally brewed. Bottoms up! Notice I can spell all these flippin’ foreign words but I can’t spell strickneen!! Robert
Whats wrong with Dealer boots I still get 2 pairs of Loak’s shipped out every year, The light tan ones, not the black ones, you can buy Efes in Hobart.
Other than a short spell in furry clogs in the 80’s I’ve been wearing them since high school.Jeff…
Tongue in cheek mate! I’ve been wearing DMs all my life! Robert
Hello Robert, Dave Clark 
would that be the same Dave Clark who was an owner driver in the eighties who pulled for Whittles with a Fiat/ Iveco ? If it’s the one from Cornwall with fairly long blond hair he used to have a Cornish flag hung up in the back of his cab and he was a good lad to run with. The first time that I met him was in Mama’s Bar on the Prater in Vienna about April 1980 when we were both week ending.
I.I.R.C. he was doing a trip for a mate of his in a Berliet who was also from the West Country and Dave was giving it a go to see if he would like doing continental work. I met him a couple of months later on The National in Belgrade when he was on his way to somewhere in The Middle East and we met up loads of times over the next seven years.
Now put your thinking caps on lads because I am thinking of the guys name who owned the Berliet and for some reason I think that it might of been the same guy who had those two girls working for him who used to do Italy in a wagon and drag about mid eighties, their names might of been called Jan and Carol.
Regards Steve.
mushroomman:
Hello Robert, Dave Clark
I.I.R.C. he was doing a trip for a mate of his in a Berliet who was also from the West Country and Dave was giving it a go to see if he would like doing continental work. I met him a couple of months later on The National in Belgrade when he was on his way to somewhere in The Middle East and we met up loads of times over the next seven years.
Now put your thinking caps on lads because I am thinking of the guys name who owned the Berliet and for some reason I think that it might of been the same guy who had those two girls working for him who used to do Italy in a wagon and drag about mid eighties, their names might of been called Jan and Carol.Regards Steve.
Hullo Steve,
Was his name Dave Prince ? I never met him, but I remember that he had a few Motors, mostly running to Italy with Ladies driving them. He was from I think Cheddar.
Archie.
Hi Archie, I think it might of been Dave Prince, that name certainly rings a bell. 
Regards Steve.