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| tatra805 Member Since: 16 Aug 2011 Location: Dolany Posts: 436   
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Our summer holiday with the 110, I’ll let the pictures do the talking. (limited it to defender pics)
We originally planned to tour Croatia and Bosnia but due to family reasons I had to go to Belgium so we decided to cross the alps and enjoy the ride. 3 days of Croatian sea, 3 days of Italian/French alps and a 5 day family visit in Belgium. Say a surf and turf topped off with a nice familiar dessert. Cant go wrong, does it? Total distance covered: 3500km Height difference: 3000m Max Intake Air temp: 46°C Min Intake Air temp: 2°C Fuel consumption: 359 liters Avg consumption: 10.26 l/100km – 27.53mpg Pictures taken: 2089 We started of from home to Krk in Croatia, 680km of motorway through Austria, Slovenia and Croatia. Met there with a friend who brought his RIB for some water enjoyment. We were warned about swarms of tourists but season was very low till then so not to much hassle. 
The isles with their unspoiled pebble beaches are marvelous.
The RIB was great. Click image to enlarge
Croatia is surely planned for future holidays although the mining situation is a bit worrying me to really venture off the beaten (even if others do).
Left Krk island just before they shut down the bridge due to heavy winds. Found a place on the Slovenian border with Italy to sleep although we had to find the backside slope of the mountain as the storm setting in was so heavy the defender was scarily rocking around when parked. (not talking inside the RTT, just parked along the track)
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4th Aug 2012 8:27am |
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| tatra805 Member Since: 16 Aug 2011 Location: Dolany Posts: 436
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We crossed Italy in one stretch.
I found a campsite one day before leaving referred to as a 4X4 oriented place. Indeed it was. LR was well represented although the most eye catching (but for other reasons) was this one.
The area around Salbertrand is open for traffic, even the non paved mountain roads.
Passes range from family track type non paved to washed out steep-drop roads and conditions change every year/with the season. Some tracks have an easy direction and I we surely took one that would have been a challenge in the other direction. In other words it is a paradise. Click image to enlarge
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We kept to the most known passes as we only had 3 days but will surely come back soon here as this is nearly heaven (yep, about 3000m closer). tbc Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated |
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4th Aug 2012 8:32am |
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| tatra805 Member Since: 16 Aug 2011 Location: Dolany Posts: 436
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If anyone would like the tracks in kml or gpx I’ll sort them over PM. Googling someiller, fenestrelle, asietta also pops up a lot of info on these roads and region. Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated |
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4th Aug 2012 8:38am |
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| tatra805 Member Since: 16 Aug 2011 Location: Dolany Posts: 436
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We left Italy over the Colle de Frejus and ended the day at the Lac de CCCC. Quite impressive especially if you drive it up from italy and realize what this water would do if that dam broke.
some italian beef
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Another stretch over Luxemburg to Belgium for the family part of this years holiday and back over germany-austria home. (even dared to take the same road the engine blew back in January, no bad spirits this time) Back home now and trying to switch the mind back to normal. MPG footnote For all those Defender owners waving on the highways wondering what we were gluing to the back of that truck in front of us; I managed a 7.6l avg consumption over 1470km door to door. That’s 37.16 mpg over 913 miles. Couldn’t believe it myself with RTT and 400kg load + 100l extra jerry cans Avg speed 83 km/h (51.5 mph) which is not that much difference with a 100km/h avg you get with a standard family car on that identical trip. With the merc I manage the same trip in 10 hours, avg speed 147km/h (91.3)mph but with a consumption close to 9l/100km (31.4 mpg) and almost no load. Who’s the eco green one now?
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4th Aug 2012 8:40am |
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| Thud Member Since: 21 Jul 2012 Location: London Posts: 667  
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Excellent stuff!
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4th Aug 2012 2:25pm |
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| MK Member Since: 28 Aug 2008 Location: Santiago Posts: 2414  
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 Puma 110" SW
............................................................. Earth first. Other planets later |
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4th Aug 2012 3:48pm |
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| womble Member Since: 27 Jan 2012 Location: south east Posts: 272 
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hrvatska najbolje
(ok for those that don't speak croatian)croatia...the best.going in 110 in 2 weeks.can't wait.wonderful pictures but you must go south dubrovnik,trogir and all of the coast are must sees  |
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10th Aug 2012 11:07pm |
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| CR Member Since: 28 Jan 2010 Location: Ireland Posts: 947  
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amazing stuff
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11th Aug 2012 10:32am |
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| PC Member Since: 17 Apr 2012 Location: Essex Marshes Posts: 30 
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My kinda trip. Excellent.
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11th Aug 2012 11:06am |
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| Shocks Member Since: 17 Jun 2012 Location: UK Posts: 4 
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Superb, just added a new place to the list to visit. I take it your defender is chipped as my 2008 110 station wagon with roof rack is getting 5LPH or there abouts....
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12th Aug 2012 6:58pm |
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| strang Member Since: 16 May 2012 Location: Happy Valley Posts: 1380 
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Thanks for the posting - I really enjoy threads like this! Euro-Leafing to infinity and beyond.....
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12th Aug 2012 7:05pm |
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| tatra805 Member Since: 16 Aug 2011 Location: Dolany Posts: 436
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thanks for the comments!
Shocks, non chipped, stock everything. what does 5LPH (liter per hour ?) make in l/100km? |
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12th Aug 2012 8:40pm |
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| pouf Member Since: 05 Aug 2010 Location: Athens Posts: 456  
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really good pics but i can't see Boston, did you minimize him?
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14th Aug 2012 6:50am |
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| tatra805 Member Since: 16 Aug 2011 Location: Dolany Posts: 436
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Pouf, he was guarding the house being spoiled by our neighbors.
we did see a lot of these fellas though
but they would be way too fast for him to catch them 
note to myself; put a decent tele in the budget for next year Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated |
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14th Aug 2012 8:49am |
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