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PANDA AND POPS

Over the years my wife Emilia and I have made several road trips in our Mini Cooper, Popsie, accompanied by our friends Patrick and Louise, which have been documented inMiniWorld. Our friends would try to keep up with us in their slow, but rather nice, Citroën 2CV. We had planned this latest trip for the summer of 2020 but, as we all know, along came Covid and foreign travel became almost impossible. I managed to cancel our hotel reservations and put the ferry crossings on hold and then we waited and waited.

At long last, after what felt like a lifetime of groundhog days, we decided to try again. I worked out a different itinerary and rebooked our ferries.

The Mini was prepared, documents gathered together, vaccination records checked and a new UK sticker purchased as the traditional GB plate is no longer valid. It was rather stressful worrying whether

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