The South of France in 1999...
When I go on holiday, it's usually to the South of France, as I have a soft spot for the place, for lots of reasons....this year, we went with my friend Frank and his family. This made a total of 5 (us) plus 6 (them). We drove the 1000 miles or so south in our Citroen CX, plus Frank's newly acquired Aston Martin...
The CX managed the journey down happily with us 5 plus luggage etc, as did the Aston, though the travelling conditions for the 3 of them in the Aston (the other 3 were flying) were not so comfortable :) We had rented a very nice villa. The picture shows the view up from the pool, with the villa (in fact, a Napoleonic bastide) just visible behind. It was complete with pool and terrace, but Frank's Aston starter motor started sulking when we arrived....the starter motor then became an object of attention on the terrace.... When not attempting to fix the Aston, we spent lots of time (a) drinking beer and (b) arguing about whose turn it was to go to the supermarche for more beer, or sometimes (c) arguing about whose turn it was to take the rubbish (mostly beer bottles) to the bins....
We managed to get the starter to function well enough to get home, with a few pushes, but apart from that and our CX's fans not coming on while we were going up a pass (fixed by hitting every relay under the bonnet) everything was fine, and we cruised back at 95mph or so all the way. Overall, a good time was had by all. Perhaps I'll go in a Scimitar one day (but no A/C, arrgh).