It's a few days I went with my celi really long trip visit most exclusive tuning Celica workshop in Europe (details you can read here) . And because I don't want ruin that nice topic with my feeling about that trip, you can read about that here .

My complete 1067km (663miles) journey and most important "milestones" you can see below:

zero km, 10:00 = Leaving Prague
160 km, 11:50 = Czech-Poland border (buying full tank)
370 km, 15:00 = Silver 6gen Celica spotted
635 km, 18:30 = Entering Warsaw...

..., meeting Tomasz (TomPoz) and second Celica spotted . Big thanks to him for finding accommodation there. I was 1/2 dead after 8hrs of driving... .
640 km, 6:00 = Next day morning, buying 33,2 liters of fuel (that means 7litres of fuel for each 100km consumption!!!), saying good bye to Tomasz and on the road again...
700 km, 7:30 = Still maze in Warsaw... (second big thanks to Tomasz for help with navigation out there)
800 km, 8:30 = Prosienica... stopped by police for speed
980 km, 11:30 = Few km from Poland-Lithuania border

993 km, 11:45 = Entering Lithuania.

1044 km, 12:30 = Almost there...

1067 km, 13:00 = At last... my SS-III replica meets real SS-III

Big thanks to Romas for help with way back home and feeding me well

End of story for now .

This post has been edited by malpaso: Feb 5, 2007 - 4:40 AM

quite a journey Martin, we're all looking forward to the results

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hahah i love this pictures.... its like arriving at disneyland and entering the park. Hopefully the next trip will be 10x better.

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It'll be faster thats for sure

This post has been edited by WH95TE: Jan 11, 2007 - 7:47 AM

haha Martin, nice pics Can anyone see what is wrong with my SSIII license plate on the back LOL!

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BEA910MS

I am glad I was helpful, Martin. Concerning picture of Romas backyard - I will never forget this place, it is like womb for beautiful and powerful cars.

Malpaso thats awesome! im sure DWC will produce top quality work as usual.

also i didn't realize Slovakia and Czech Republic where neighbors.
I want to visit there someday and see if i can find my relatives.
know any Horniaks (Horneck, Hornak, im not sure on the spelling it was changed a bit when my great grandparent came over)

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Cool , It's Horňák for sure . Common name in here. If you will visit Prague, let me know

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Well, in the past not far from today it was CzechoSlovakia - single country.

Time to share about way back . That second one was more 10x adventure .

zero km, 12:00 = Leaving Prague by bus (unbelievable boring way for many hrs... until PL-LT border...)
about 990 km, next day morning 5:30 = PL-LT border... customs control started... I WAS SHOCKED, I HAVE NEVER SEEN CONTROL LIKE THIS BEFORE. We spend there four hours!!! They looked into all baggages and everything inside! They come with endoscope and looked into every single corner in bus, they removed bolstering in a bus even came with two dogs. Unfortunately they found one of passengers has some white powder in some box . They immediately bring some chemical lab briefcase and started with testing what is that... It was some diet supplement for bodybuilders. However because his testers nothing showed, they took him for another hour somewhere (for some another lab testing). It was in spy movie from cold war era. Unbelievable...
about 1100 km, 11:30 = almost 24hr bus trip to capital of Lithuania, Vilnius (freezing, tons of snow... and tired unbelievably):

...then in 5hrs meet with Romas and his wife, nice dinner and rest in his flat (at last bed again ). Next day morning at last after weeks of waiting seeing my car again. After sorting out everything (11:00) on the road again...
zero km, 10:30 = leaving Romas... (you can see roads, nothing special to test my new beast )

67 km, 11:30 = LT-PL border (afraid as hell after last experience with local customs)
67 km, 11:31 = Poland!!! Everything nice and smooth .
410 km, 18:00 = Warsaw. Meeting with Celica-Club Poland members and Tomasz. Dinner in KFC . Night in Tomasz's place and next day morning pleasant breakfast with Tomasz's family (Tom has absolutely amazing son ) and seeing that white beauty below (btw. see, no snow around!!! just rainy a bit):

410 km, 13:00 = on the road again... see perfect roads... and time push ponies a bit

904 km, 19:00 = speed ticket... again (damn!!!! 3km before CZ border)
907 km, 19:10 = PL-CZ border
917 km, 19:30 = rest for a night... next day noon continuing to Prague (see weather and roads?)



1067 km, next day 14:30 = home... at last. No another speed tickets (I was driving like angel by the limits )

...more expressions about power you can find here , and I believe that's what are you looking for .

This post has been edited by malpaso: Feb 5, 2007 - 5:33 AM

Martin, I'm glad you reached your home safely. Anytime you pass Warsaw, you are welcome in my place.

BTW - Maja would be dissapointed that "uncle" Martin is only admiring Igor.

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It's not like that . Igor is just a bit more cute because of his age and skills . Maja is amazing of course too. She learned me some new Polish words (like "hairgrip", "menace" ). But she speaks too fast for me to understand well . I had no problems with Igor like this .

p.s.: It's not easy, now it seems only one not admired person is your wife . And I'm telling you (beforehand), it's not like that again . Just... someone must be that most one and "hi5, low5, small5" is unbeatable .

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