An excellent manual on the repair and maintenance of Volkswagens, written by a hippie in the height of the hippie season, was entitled "How to keep your VW alive - the manual for the complete idiot". When you got to the chapter on driving tactics, there was a section on driving in the mountains. One would expect a long treatise on gear-changing etc, but what it said for VW Kombi's was "Start out early". I always applied that to Austin Sevens, although luckily we don't have any really high mountains in this Country. But Ruairidh has proven that completely wrong - great trip, great photos, Thanks, R. Cheers, Bill

Location: Euroa , Australia