Touring Down Under with the Bentley Drivers Club
The Bentley Drivers Club boys and girls have certainly been a busy mob for the last few months in Australia.
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And I really do mean the last few months.
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Firstly there was Over the Top Tour of Western Australia.
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The Bentley Drivers Club of Western Australia hosted the tour and it set off on 18th June and arrived in Darwin on the 12th July 2010.
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Alastair and his wife undertook the tour in a 1957 Bentley S1 Continental Coupe and kindly sent in these photos.
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Foreigners just do not quite realise just how large Australia is. True blue. It's bloody big mate.
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Just that little drive from Perth to Darwin was 5333km. That is over 3300 miles.
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To put it into context, it is further than driving from London to Moscow and back again. That's right and back again. Bloody far.
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A total of 44 other cars took part in the Over the Top Tour of Western Australia.
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Amazing.
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Being Australian, there are always a few people who like to take it that little bit further. And some did.
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That's right, the next day after going Over the Top of Australia, they went Done the Side.
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Down the side from Darwin to Brisbane. Make that another 3580km.
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That tour went from 13th July to the 29th July.
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Then on the Friday 30 July till Monday 2 August the Bentley Drivers Club Australian National Rally was held.
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This was hosted by the Queensland branch of the Bentley Drivers Club and was centred around Sanctuary Cove.
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Brian Carson was the official photographer for the National Rally and sent in these beautiful photographs.
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It must have been quite a memorable trip, to say the least.
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Thank you to Brian and Alister for sending in photographs, and congratulations to all those who took part and organised such a significant event.
I so want to go on a grand Bentley tour one day.
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