Thanks - it was very relaxing.
Only had one slightly 'non-relaxing' moment when the top hose blew off the radiator and emptied all the coolant rather rapidly* midway across a large roundabout. Had no chance of getting a new hose (one of those quick-fit, push on type connectors with feeds coming off the hose for the auto-box cooler and alternator cooling) so a 2 inch jubilee clip and some antifreeze soon had us going again.
Apart from that it was great - Yorkshire, Norfolk, Witshire, Devon and Cornwall - all in, 2100 miles over two weeks. Only real bad weather we had was the mid-weekend when the remains of hurricane Bertha came over - had to actually stop on the motorway due to heavy rain/hail - apart from the, pretty good weather. Was surprised at how cold Scotland is when we finally returned
*Actually, I'd say it was 'extremely' rapidly - the engine runs at 105 ?C and the coolant left the engine pretty sharpish. Everything got covered including the windscreen.
