Evora Picture & Video Thread

[Geoffers]

Blimey, where have you been with that Evora, the North Sea?

[Alfa2Evora]

I've already posted these in my thread on the preparation of the big wing over in the 'Exterior etc' lounge, but I make no apologies for sticking them in here too - I'm well-chuffed with the finished article, .

[Alfa2Evora]

It's not even a particularly large motorhome in the scheme of things but it does somewhat dwarf the Evora. 

WARNING: You can expect several more road-trip pics as I make my way down to Murcia and back, 😁. 

[andyj007]

spent a few summers on holidays in Puerto de Mazarrón just along from murcia 15 years ago....  was a lovely unspoilt un touristy place..

 

[Alfa2Evora]

Very few pics taken today some of you will be relieved to hear - spent all my time driving. 

Left my overnight B&B in Montigny-les-Monts at 0930........

...... then it was just a short drive, albeit in the opposite direction to where I really should have been heading, to my favourite producer to collect 12 bottles of his finest cidre fermier brut - not exactly following the 'added lightness' edict I know.......... 

 

.........9 hours, 2 pitstops and 550 miles later, it was a quick stretch of my legs before the Evora got a good workout through the Pyrenees........

....... for a further 2 hours and 100 miles to arrive at my stop for tonight in Santpedor in Catalunya.

As it was dark on arrival exterior pics will need to wait until the morning but suffice to say that whilst it might not look it from outside, the interior is petrolhead heaven......... 

Damn cheek of the 911 guy pinching my reserved parking spot though!...... 

[pete757]

Awesome trip! Envious!

Car looks great. I like the wing >)

I would love to do something like this with a group of like minded Evora guys in 2019... perhaps a plan can be hatched to take in a few track days en-route of course!...

... as well as cases fro vineyards various!

[Alfa2Evora]

Today's installment. Starting out from the Hotel Ramon Park in Santpedor.......

.....it was going to be a comparatively short door to door drive of around 350 miles using the Barcelona to Valencia motorway but where's the fun in that when you're surrounded by mountains?

So, head for the hills it was. 

Having used up all of the morning exploring any road in the vicinity that appeared on the map as a squiggle, it was time to cover some miles towards my destination, so onto the boring motorway was the only option. 

Arriving in the town of Pinoso (El Pinos) about 7pm it was my intention to make a rapid stop to visit an ATM but on returning to the car it was receiving some attention from a guy who must have photographed every square inch of it.........  

I got chatting to him and it turned out he has a car blog site and organises events locally. Anyway, over an hour later I finally made my escape, with the obligatory blast up the street (his dad's the local traffic cop - handy!) for his video.

By the time I got to my hotel, Casa Boquera near Yecla, it was pitch black, making their unpaved access road all the more 'interesting'. The car is now covered in a layer of white dust - not happy about that - but the place more than makes up for it. 

@pete757 You would love it - they have their own winery. Daylight pics tomorrow. 

[pete]

Good friend of mine now lives in Yecla

[Alfa2Evora]

Send me his address and I'll go rev-up outside to say "hello" on your behalf, 😁.

[Alfa2Evora]

 Loads of photo opportunities today (OK, OK I can hear the groans from here but do feel free to post pics of other than Laser Blue Evoras if you want) as I confined my activities to within a 30 mile radius of my hotel. 

In the cold light of day the car didn't look any better - that dust had got everywhere, including the engine bay.......

........but I can almost forgive when the compensation is this...... 

Today's run was only down to near Fortuna to visit friends but that didn't prevent me using some nice little back roads with spectacular backdrops... 

 

 

 

 

[Alfa2Evora]

........and some more....... 



[Alfa2Evora]

Despite spending most of today meeting with my Spanish lawyer, council officials and my builders (the main reason for my being here) I did manage to snatch a few photo opportunities and I know how bitterly disappointed you'll all be if I failed to share them on here. 

In front of my future (hopefully) retirement home, currently a complete ruin requiring total renovation. 

Directly opposite is a lovely little church, bizarrely the only building in the hamlet of 14 houses that is fully restored. 

Just along the road and a decent backdrop presented itself so it would have been rude not to......

 

 

Starting the journey back towards Hethel tomorrow with the overnight stop booked at a small château near Millau - not sure if there will be internet access there so you may get some respite from my incessant posting. 

[pete757]

Great story and photos of your trip.

Do they happen to have facilities and water to wash cars in the area!! lol 🤣

[andyj007]

thanks for posting..  im enjoying your trip, makes a nice pre work read/view

 

[Ratman]

nice trip, but you should buy a new phone with a better camera! 🙂

[Alfa2Evora]

12 hours ago, Ratman said:

nice trip, but you should buy a new phone with a better camera! 🙂

Strange as it may seem, I bought this phone to use as a phone - the camera function came as a bonus. I was intending to upload pics from my DSLR camera to my laptop but the latter no longer wishes to speak to me. 

The first few hours of today's journey back in a northerly direction were completed during a torrential downpour so no chance of any pics but at least it washed off the worst of the white dust layer on the car so it now looks semi-presentable from a few feet away. 

By Mid-afternoon though the sun was blazing down from an almost cloudless sky as I cleared Barcelona so I headed off the motorway at Figueris and picked up the coast road into France - think Stelvio Pass by the seaside. 

Brilliantly challenging road but the fun kept being spoiled by catching up on bloomin' motorhomes. Nothing else for it then but to stop and take some pics to win back some roadspace....... 

After a 500 mile drive today, I'm spending tonight in a small château about 20 miles up a sideshoot gorge to the east of Millau.

I'll try for some of the obligatory shots of the 'big bridge' tomorrow if I'm not too preoccupied with charging around the maze of twisty roads in this neck of the woods before I head to my overnight stop in Estissac, between Paris and Troyes. 

[Bruss]

 

removed the sign. Hope you don't mind. 

[TheKevlarKid]

I've got plenty of grey hairs if you like to do me a makeover... @Bibs

Sorry, @Bruss

Bibs, tried to edit the post, will let me delete the text but not the tag to you... strange.

 

 

[Bruss]

7 hours ago, TheKevlarKid said:

I've got plenty of grey hairs if you like to do me a makeover... @Bibs

Sorry, @Bruss

Bibs, tried to edit the post, will let me delete the text but not the tag to you... strange.

 

 

TLF has been down at this end, but it gave me time to finish the makeover

 

[LoW8]

Been ordering my wheels one by one to confirm fitment (given they're custom I can't return them). Spent HEAPS of time researching and measuring. Rear wheels were a success and now confirmed the front calipers clear the spokes so we're a goer! Will post some pics once all fitted in a few weeks. 

They fill the guards perfectly. Stoked. 

Edited September 27, 2018 by DBG

[Evora 400]

Foto 1 😂😂😂

 

 

Foto 2 Austria

Edited September 27, 2018 by Evora 400

[Evora 400]

My creation.

Edited September 27, 2018 by Evora 400

[Alfa2Evora]

Having given others a chance to make some posts whilst I was without an internet connection, it's time to play catchup. 

My overnight stop on Wednesday was in this small château in Bez et Emperor, up an offshoot of the Gorge du Tarn near Millau ....... 

From there it was a short drive through some great scenery....... 

.......  to arrive at the 'Big Bridge'. Two brilliant pieces of British design in the one shot! 

 

[Alfa2Evora]

This trip, I didn't go over it but instead spent some time exploring the roads that the valley below to get a different perspective. 

[Alfa2Evora]

Final instalment, you'll be relieved to hear. 

From Millau, with time now against me, it was a spirited thrash of 400 miles or so up the Autoroute to my overnight stop in Estissac, to the west of Troyes. 

The final day still had enough time available to make a slight detour for some obligatory pics at the old Reims-Gueux race circuit before heading to Calais for the Eurotunnel crossing and the run to Hethel.

Those of you at the 70th event today wouldn't have had too much difficulty in recognising my car - it was the one with a few isolated patches of Laser Blue just visible under a thick layer of combined white marble dust and brown brake dust.