Well, if this Icelandic volcano has shown us anything, it’s that flying is not always best for a holiday! All those poor people stuck in their exotic destinations because their are no flights in or out of the UK due to the volcanic ash fallout from Iceland who cannot get back to work or back to school and have to put up with yet more endless days of relaxing sunshine. Guess they’ll just use car hire and get to see more of the surrounding country.
The glove box started life as a small neccessity. A handy place to store your driving gloves between trips in the days before cars had heating. Nowadays, nobody really wears driving gloves as our cars are heated and cooled better than our homes, but the glove box stays ever present. What it does do however, is provide all sorts of amusement for car hire companies when they dare to venture inside and see what people leave behind.
I recently took an extended trip to New Zealand. This is not the sort of holiday I would normally take – I mean – two months in a country on the other side of the world really is a one off! A degree of planning went into the trip but more than anything I wanted to ‘fly by the seat of my pants’ so to speak. The fact that I had two children with me was not going to phaze me – we were too tough to worry about the details – as long as we arranged the basics then we would wing it and have an adventure. With this is mind, flights car hire and immediate overnight accomodation were arranged and the rest would be played by ear.
The time had come to renew my car. We had a BMW for several years and it had served us well. It was a great car, great performance, reliable and comfortable but call me fickle – I fancied a change, much to BMW’s consternation! So, we began the hunt for a family sized car that had to be erasonably economical but defintely the right size and of high comfort. This is how we ended up with the Lexus IS.