DjMagra’s stuff ‘n’ stuff

Well, it took a while (a lot longer than I had expected to be honest!) but at long last, it’s sad to say, I no longer own a MINI! She’s gone and found a new home since Friday night, and although I’ve been away and not driving her for almost two months now, it’s still really sad that she’s gone. What’s worse is, that I’m actually heading home this coming weekend, so, she went about a week too early in the end, and now I have to make do with a Punto for the weekend (thanks mom!)

On the plus side, I am now completely debt free (and even in credit), in Ireland at least, no more credit card bills or monthly repayments to dissappear out of my account, which is a nice pleasant place to be!

I will miss her though, I might just have to start looking to buy one here……

It’s slipped down my priority list slightly, but, for those who haven’t heard yet, my MINI Cooper is still for sale.

Living over in London, I haven’t been able to chase it as much as I would like, it’s advertised on carzone.ie but that’s about it. Does anyone know where else I could be advertising it, where I could successfully offload it asap?

Moving to London is such a good thing, I really can’t wait, and I’m so so excited about everything involved in the move, except for one thing!! I’ve got to sell my MINI! I’m really bummed about that. Ok, so I don’t have to sell it, I could take it over, but, it just doesn’t make sense to be honest.

So, here she is, my beloved MINI, now for sale. If anyone is interested in buying her, please drop me a line to mini@daraghmcg.org

Some details on her for you:

• 2003 MINI Cooper
• Chilli Pack (Alloys, Sports Suspension, Half Leather Interior)
• Panoramic Sunroof
• 57,000 miles
• BMW / MINI Service History
• Recently replaced tyres and brake disks / pads
• Asking price EUR 18,500

Also on carzone.ie

Greetings from the Apple Store in a cold, wet, windy Amsterdam. I have no internet access in the hotel, and haven’t really been there long enough to write anything anyways, so, I’ll save the updates for later. Having a fab time in Amsterdam, seeing hundreds of MINI’s driving along the roads of Holland is so much fun, makes up for the fact that we hardly saw any all the way from Ireland, through England and on through France and Belgium to here. I reckon everyone made the journey early in the week last week, which means that quite a lot should be on the road back with us tomorrow. Best journey I saw so far was from Moscow to here via St Petersburg, Stockholm, Helsinki etc. Will get some pics up soon with all the details, but, for now, I’m going to wait for the rain to clear and see the sights of Amsterdam.

UPDATE: Ok, I said I had updates to come, and I did / do. Unfortunately, they got completely side-tracked by other stuff that’s been going on, I haven’t even looked through the majority of my photo’s yet, but, hopefully sometime soon I’ll get around to writing a little more about the trip.

Ready, set, and (almost) go!

The bags are just about packed, MINI is about ready to go (need to give her a final clean and put all her MINI United stickers on tonight) and I’ve just worked out my final route to Zandvoort. I get the ferry from Dublin to Holyhead tomorrow, head over to Birmingham to collect Alan, then we’re on the road to Dover. An overnight in Dover, where hopefully we’ll get to hook up with some more MINI’s will be followed by an early ferry over to Calais, and then see us on the roads of France, Belgium and Holland to get to Zandvoort hopefully around mid-afternoon on Friday for the fun and games at MINI United.

The trip there will be about 750 miles (1,200 km) and should be a whole lot of fun. Seeing 8,000 MINI’s of all flavours descending on one small town is going to be some experience. There are plenty of camera’s packed, so, pictures should be in plentiful supply.

For anyone interested, here’s the map of our route:

And the full route details can be found here.

Phew, I can’t keep up with life at the moment, never mind keeping the blog up to date! Some news to share in a few minutes, but, firstly, I had planned on blogging about this long ago, but, never got the chance.

This weekend sees myself, Alan and MINI heading to Zandvoort, near Amsterdam, for the second ever MINI United Festival.

They are expecting somewhere in the region of 8,000 - 10,000 MINI’s, old and new to turn up for a weekend of fun and frolics, which includes the opportunity to tour the Zandvoort track in your own car, take a spin in a souped up MINI Cooper Works, watch Faithless in concert, go to fashion shows, watch MINI stunt drivers, play beach volleyball and go karting around the circuit. As well as all the cars that will be showing up, around 40,000 people are expeceted throughout each day.

All in all, it promises to be a spectacular weekend, and hopefully I’ll have enough internet access to keep blogging about the fun and games, as well as getting some pics up to my flickr. Remember to also keep your eye on the MINI United flickr pool.

Ok, there’s going to be plenty of MINI related news appearing here over the coming weeks, but, here’s a good place to start. Check out this MINI, which has to be just about the ultimate pimped out MINI, covered in over 1 million Swarovski cristals, and currently on exhibit in New York!