Meet Bertha

Hello

Let me introduce you to the newest member of our family Bertha.



As you can see Bertha is a car, or to be more precisely she is a Citroen Berlingo. She has a 1.8 litre engine and most importantly she is left hand drive, Why you may ask ? Well the plan is that we will in March of next year (2007) drive Bertha across the channel down through France into Spain and to Cadiz where we can catch the ferry to the Canary Islands.

Bertha started her life in Gibraltar and was imported to the UK in 2002. As part of her importation several things have been changed that we would have to put back when we import her to Spain, These are;

1. Headlights - These have been replaced with UK versions and need to be swapped back to the European versions.
2. Fog Light - This has been converted from being on the left to being on the right, this is easy to swap back as the wire has been cut and another wire feed to the bulb on the other side, so cutting this and reconnecting will not be to difficult.
3. Speedometer - This has been altered to read in Miles per hour in order to convert this we need to remove the stickers that have been placed there and replace them with the correct kilometers per hour readings.

We will keep you abreast of the ongoing developments with Bertha. The next thing to do is plan our route though France and Spain.