The Real Italian Job: James Martin's Mille Miglia

[Andy Zarse]

Load of old crap on many levels.

JM on Saturday Kitchen = good

JM in a car = complete arse

[mgmark]

who's got a MGA ?

That'll be me then.......

MG Mark

[Piglet]

who's got a MGA ?

That'll be me then.......

MG Mark

Ooh ooh take me with you, take me with you, I'm only small, I don't need much leg room so you could pack more stuff and I can read maps....go onnnnnnn pleeeeeease....

(actually I'm crap at map reading  )

I'd love to go and watch the MM, I'd like to sit in one of those hilly sections and watch the world go by.....

[nopanic - neil]

who's got a MGA ?

That'll be me then.......

MG Mark

Ooh ooh take me with you, take me with you, I'm only small, I don't need much leg room so you could pack more stuff and I can read maps....go onnnnnnn pleeeeeease....

(actually I'm crap at map reading  )

I'd love to go and watch the MM, I'd like to sit in one of those hilly sections and watch the world go by.....

Almost perfect - forgot the wine - Red or White? 

[Piglet]

who's got a MGA ?

That'll be me then.......

MG Mark

Ooh ooh take me with you, take me with you, I'm only small, I don't need much leg room so you could pack more stuff and I can read maps....go onnnnnnn pleeeeeease....

(actually I'm crap at map reading  )

I'd love to go and watch the MM, I'd like to sit in one of those hilly sections and watch the world go by.....

Almost perfect - forgot the wine - Red or White? 

It really requires a red and some pasta but I can't drink red so it'd have to be white and a nice seafood pasta made outside on the camping stove 

[Martini...LB]

I can cook... sounds like an adventure...

Just got up, not very well, at a party until 6.00 this morning, might have drunk toooooooo much. My wife has just told me she has made a prawn and salmon sandwich for me. better go and face it I suppose. Feel as rough as a bears ars....

Better start the year as you mean to go on I suppose.

Happy New Year to you all. Quite lucid considering....  why does excess alcohol have such a strange effect?
 
>Martini...

[Piglet]

I can cook... sounds like an adventure...

It sounds like fun doesn't it.....I've never been to Italy, I wonder how we'd go about putting something like that together?

Edited to add...http://www.1000miglia.eu/inglese/home.html   you've gotta love an event that starts with Mass 

[Barry]

Love to take part in something a bit more sensible, like a 500 Abarth.

But I seem to remember on the programme they said the entry fee was £8000.

[Bas]

you just get as much fun following the 'rally' around over the week. 

Indeed following it is just as much fun.
I bought a book some years ago called Mille Miglia, 1000 miles for connoisseurs, which outlines the rally, the course and describes the 25 or so best hotels and restaurants to visit along the way.

When I've the budget and time that would be my ideal Italian holiday 

http://www.mille-miglia.de/englisch/regionen/index.htm

[Piglet]

it can be done cheaply, Italian street food is excellent, the group i was with there were a couple who got fed up with the pasta!!! it's in the diary for 2011.  the drive to and from Italy is something also.

We were thinking 2011, 2010 for the Classic and then a road trip for 2011, it looks like a fab trip 

[Piglet]

it can be done cheaply, Italian street food is excellent, the group i was with there were a couple who got fed up with the pasta!!! it's in the diary for 2011.  the drive to and from Italy is something also.

We were thinking 2011, 2010 for the Classic and then a road trip for 2011, it looks like a fab trip 

who knows we might have a convoy, it's also possible to follow the Monte Carlo Rally route as well, V8, 2nd gear, in all those tunnels, yahooo

In my rattling diesel Saab 

[nopanic - neil]

it can be done cheaply, Italian street food is excellent, the group i was with there were a couple who got fed up with the pasta!!! it's in the diary for 2011.  the drive to and from Italy is something also.

We were thinking 2011, 2010 for the Classic and then a road trip for 2011, it looks like a fab trip 

who knows we might have a convoy, it's also possible to follow the Monte Carlo Rally route as well, V8, 2nd gear, in all those tunnels, yahooo

In my rattling diesel Saab 

2 years to get anther silly/fun car.

What a great idea - from a small acorn   

[Leftie]

it can be done cheaply, Italian street food is excellent, the group i was with there were a couple who got fed up with the pasta!!! it's in the diary for 2011.  the drive to and from Italy is something also.

We were thinking 2011, 2010 for the Classic and then a road trip for 2011, it looks like a fab trip 

who knows we might have a convoy, it's also possible to follow the Monte Carlo Rally route as well, V8, 2nd gear, in all those tunnels, yahooo

I think I might have to carry out a Full service of the 'Sixfire' and have a 'practice' sesion before I even think of it. But a 2ltr straight with straight thru's going through tunnels sounds like a MUST.

[Steve Pyro]

But a 2ltr straight with straight thru's going through tunnels sounds like a MUST.

Nothing beats the sound of a 6.6 litre V8 in the Rouen tunnel 

[Lord Pig-Pen]

The repeat is on now... and I agree with all the other comments. Waste of a programme that could have been so good.... He's a twat!