The next hour was extremely boring as the fascilities were very limited, but hey, here comes my ship, or is it? (There's a clue in the picture)

Richard, the Serene should work with that base. Make sure you only have 5 Beocoms connected to it or it won't connect. The only advantage of adding the Serene to the system is to share the phonebook. Andy T.

I voted 8000s but am probably a bit biased. I have Pentas at the front and 8000s at the rear, from my Avant. Many would say that 8000s as rears is a bit of an overkill but often I listen to the sound from my 7000 system in speaker 4 mode. I actually like the double stereo sound for CDs and Classic FM! Plenty of good bass from ther Pentas and I feel

I gave the pretty young lady at the check-in, my printout of my booking but she didn't want it, just my passport! She checked me in at 14.22 for the sailing at 16.00 and told me to go and wait in lane 49 for the ship. Can you see my little car?

I have Ozzy Osbourne's voice downloaded into my TomTom and the last ten minutes of the journey into Dover was spent listenig to Ozzy saying repeatedly "Straight ahead at the f ckin' roundabout then straight ahead at the f ckin' roundabout then straight ahead at the.......etc. There are about seven roundabouts close together. His voice

After leaving the bridge, another clear run all the way down the M20 to the South East coast and in no time at all I was going over the last hill before the drop down into Dover. Lovely blue sky, eight minutes ahead of schedule, ahh, the world's my lobster. Don't know how this picture got taken, I appear to be in the overtaking lane (We drive

This is the view from near the top, looking West up the Thames toward London. Don't have a go at me for taking photo's whilst driving, as I was stationary at the time, the toll is paid after leaving the bridge. By the way, left-click on any picture to see it bigger.

After a 15 minute break I set off again and was pleasantly supprised to see traffic was still running smoothly all the way down to the dreaded M25, the outer ring road for London. Even that was hardly holding me up, in fact the first major traffic hold-up was the queue for the toll to use the QE2 bridge over the River Thames.

As promised, here is an account of my weekend trip to Holland. Mods, would you be so kind as to leave this on the general forum until a week after I have completed it, we can then move it to the lifestyle forum. Thanks in advance. Most of you know that earlier this year, a group of Beoworlders, including myself, paid a visit to Bang and Olufsen's

"When you pick it up, it feels cheep" Are you sure it is a Beo5??? Andy T.