Thread: Spudboy's Dutch/German Jaunt. 110's; 101's; Series; Expedition vehs and even a UniMog

The first day there we were having a coffee in central Amsterdam, and this came around the corner:


As he was going very slowly I waved him down for a chat and by chance he was parking about 50m up the road, so we got to look at his 110 up close.
Very nicely fitted out. He had just come back from a few weeks in Morocco.



You can't really see it well here, but above the canvas canopy he had an alloy door he could pull down to 'theft-proof' the back of the canopy when he left it. Very clever.


The padlocks at the back were for locking the alloy rear door when it was down:

A few days later we caught up with Don & Jenn who had just got back to Amsterdam afterdriving all the way from Holland to Australia, then across to South Africa and all the way back to Europe again in their 110.

Luckily (for me - not so much for Mrs Spud) he was off to a "Land Rover Sortout" the next day only an hour or so from Amsterdam, so of course we had to tag along. Lots of 2nd hand stuff for all sorts of Landies. Saw a lot of 101's which are pretty uncommon out here, and even a trailer of military trailers.

This is his 110 which went all the way from Holland to Aust and then back again. He was trying to sell it, as it was not so easy to get around the small streets of Amsterdam in such a big vehicle:



Line of Landies in the carpark (from visitors - not exhibitors):


All sorts of junk for sale/swap:


Rapier trailers?


A very clean refurbished 300TDI part way through being re-built:

Some of the 101's:

They also had a section where you could take your vehicle through a bit of a trials area, which was a great hit with the punters.







Mrs Spud found an interesting Disco camper conversion. She was generally a good sport about being dragged around cold wet paddocks looking at LR things

A few more:

We saw a few UniMogs whilst driving around, but never seemed to have my camera set to go. This is the only one I got a photo of, somewhere in Berlin. Looked very expensive!





I thought there'd be a lot more around, given we were in Germany....

Can anyone explain what these signs on their bridges mean:

Obviously something to do with weights or speeds or something for the military, but I couldn't crack the code even after going past 10 or 15 of them.

That's about it from the Land Rover side of things. After East Berlin we motored off to a small Polish village where Mrs Spud's ancestors had been "evicted" by the King (He was Catholic and they were Lutheran.... so they took a boat to Adelaide to escape persecution) and then on to Auschwitz. Go there if you get a chance. Not exactly an enjoyable visit but sobering and horrifying and very interesting.

That's all for now - Cheers
David

Originally Posted by spudboy

Can anyone explain what these signs on their bridges mean:

Obviously something to do with weights or speeds or something for the military, but I couldn't crack the code even after going past 10 or 15 of them.

Taking a guess - tanks or military vehicles, undivided road lanes 50km, single lane same speed. Trucks undivided road lanes 50km, single lane 100km.......

Cheers,