Rob Little's Blog – the musings of an English / British Tour Guide !

FOR SALE – Peugeot 306 Meridian Turbo Diesel, 2000 on a V, Gloucestershire based, FSH £995

12 months MOT until 02/05/2013
Taxed until 31/07/2012

The car comes with electric windows front and rear, air conditioning, remote central locking, alloy wheels, power steering, electric wing mirrors, tow bar, good tyres and half leather front seats.

This car was bought new by my Father and has beeen owned by my wife since 2005. It has a FULL SERVICE HISTORY – the Cam belt was changed in 2008 at 70,844 miles. Current mileage 111.375.

The car is in reasonable condition for the year but it is 12 years old and has done over 100k miles so don’t expect a car in concourse condition – this is (and has been) a cheap and a reliable run around. There is cosmetic damage – a few scratches and dings to outside and its not perfect inside but I don’t intend to itemise every scratch, ding and blemish in the paintwork. Suffice to say to say it looks ok for what anyone is going to pay for it and its been a good little car for my dad and my wife.

The car comes with a half leather interior, with no rips or tears. However there are signs of wear on the on the driver’s seat from use and age. The remote locking key only locks and unlocks intermittently – it needs a new battery I guess.

Do please watch the video….

Service record
20th Oct 2000 – 6140 miles
27th July 2001 10,580 miles
30th Dec 2002 – 21,638 miles
30th Feb 2004 – 29,024 miles
21st Jan 2005 – 35,299 miles
21st Dec 2006 – 50,706 miles
12th Sept 2007 – 58,496 miles
3rd Sept 2008 – 70,844 miles (including cam belt)
24th July 2009 – 85,308 miles
2nd Aug 2010 – 96,588 miles
8th Aug 2011 – 105,237 miles

Contact Rob Little – english_sire@hotmail.com / 07432 082869

My daughter’s car being prepared for a major Ebay moment – I bought this car for her 6 years ago and now I’ve got to sell it.

Four guys needed to clean it up – she is quite disgusting – gum, confectionery wrappings…..yuk !!

Rob Little
Let’s Tour England !

The Romanian Hand Carwash in London Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire

Please…..do not watch this if you are likely to take offence and do not imagine for one moment that I condone this kind of **** – I loath it !

I randomly happened upon this “show” when I was on my excersie bike – and could not believe I was watching and that it seems to attract the audiences that it does? Am I naive or something – how can this possible be entertaining? Makes me SO mad grrrrrr.

…..and the most shameful thing is, the Jeremy Kyle show is BRITISH.

Most of my blogs are about how beautiful and pleasant England is…..sadly there is always a downside. Please excuse my rant.

Rob Little

“The English River” today – Torbay with Torquay in the far distance

Rob Little
Driver / Guide
Let’s Tour England

…..Nice to see the somewhat trivial still gets headline exposure in the Dartmouth Chronicle?

Rob Little
Let’s Tour England !

Dartmouth Chronicle Headline News!!!

Extradited Brit Christopher Tappin released on bail in Texas – I know some Americans can’t understand why we British are so sensitive about these extradition cases…..but many are. (This article is taken from the Daily Telegraph today Friday 27th April 2012).

Extradited Brit Christopher Tappin ‘played golf in jail cell to cope’
Christopher Tappin, the Briton extradited to the United States over arms dealing charges, has described how he survived his time in a high security jail by playing imaginary rounds of golf in his cell.

Mr Tappin, 65, who was freed on bail on Wednesday ahead of his trial, spent two months in a remote prison in the New Mexico desert following his controversial extradition in February.

He has now been bailed to live at his lawyer’s house in a gated community in Houston, Texas and has been fitted with an electronic tag. The house has its own pool and is a stark contrast to the forboding prison where he was previously held.

The former president of the Kent Golf Union described to The Daily Telegraph how he coped in jail by improvising a golf ball and hitting it with his cane.

He described how he had first been held initially in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) which was “solitary, an area which is not to be recommended.”

Later, he was moved into general population where he shared a dormitory of bunk beds with other inmates and coped “reasonably well.”

Mr Tappin said: “The first 36 hours were the most difficult. I didn’t see anybody in that time. I found that very, very difficult.”

The Otero County jail facility, where Mr Tappin was held along with other federal prisoners, has no windows, only air vents.

During his time there he was visited by The Daily Telegraph and appeared weary but stoic. His eyes were red-rimmed with lack of sleep, as he sat behind a three-inch glass screen and communicated with a phone held to his ear.

Mr Tappin said: “You have no idea of what time of day it is. You go to sleep about 6pm, then there’s a cacophony of noise about 8pm. People screaming and shouting and hollering.”

Mr Tappin, a retired businessman from Orpington, Kent whose son Neil is deputy editor of Golf Monthly, was extradited to the jail after losing his two-year battle against extradition from the UK.

He is accused of conspiring to ship 50 Eagle Picher batteries, a key component for Hawk surface-to-air missiles, to Iran and faces up to 35 years in jail if convicted.

He denies the charges and says he was just a shipper who thought the batteries were automotive industry parts bound for the Netherlands.

At his new home in Montgomery County, near Houston Mr Tappin will be able to practice his swing on a community golf course.

The gated neighbourhood where he is living is dubbed Texas’ “most celebrated master-planned community” and contains hundreds of homes worth millions of dollars.

It has its own shops, hospital and churches, and the leafy setting includes a forest, parks, lakes annd nature trails.

Mr Tappin is staying in the home of his lawyer Dan Cogdell, which is estimated to be worth $1 million, and his family are understood to be planning a visit to Texas. His case could take months or even years to go to trial.

Christopher Tappin, center, leaves federal court with his lawyers Dan Cogdell, right, and Kent Schaffer in El Paso, Texas

Rob Little
Lets Tour England
Friday 27th April 2012

And as night follows day, so Day follows Night…..so a very good morning from Dartmouth on the River Dart in the English country of Devonshire…..

See one of the Lower Car Ferries (the Float) moored up in the River Dart?

Rob Little
Devon and Cornwall Guide
Let’s Tour England !

Good morning from Dartmouth on the River Dart in the English South West

The Yacht Marina and one of the Lower Car Ferries (the Float) moored up in the River Dart

Nite nite from Dartmouth on the River Dart in the English country of Devonshire – nice shot of the moon?

Rob Little
Driver / Guide
Let’s Tour England

The Moon over Dartmouth and the River Dart in England tonight!!

Tortworth Court – nice hotel except…..well maybe its the fencing…..gives you that feeling of “security“…..well we hope so!

Rob Little
Let’s Tour England !

Tortworth Court – nice hotel except…..

Bluebells at Tortworth Court

The Lets Tour England “jalopy” viewed through my window at 7am this morning!

…..and by 11am it was even worse!!

Gladys the dog at the window – hoping to spot a break in the rain! not even got the excitement of a cat prowling outside today…..very boring!

…..and then the day ended, rather how it began !

Its 7am Wednesday and a very wet and windy day in the Cotswolds ! As the morning went on it just got worse – Gladys the dog is upset she can’t have her walk ! Not one of my more interesting of posts…..I know, but one has to have the boring and mundane in order to experience the excitement !

Rob Little
Cotswold Driver Guide
Lets Tour a Wet England !