Seen the pope in como in about 1997, had to park at tir park coz como shut to traffic, got a bus into como satday morn, found an irish bar, then a couple of hours later pope drove by, 1st time he visited como in 100 year
Too many weekends to mention in carisio, that ■■■■■■ i cant remember, likewise macon, pont d’ain, dover, late 90’s with jb riby driver, helliwells and anyone else on archibolds, them were the days
remember once at sunbilla in spain for weekend on the way across to tarragona me and my mate walking across the small truck park when a guy flung open his passenger door one of his trainers shot out followed closley by a huge streak of vomit that went straight into his shoe!lol 
hothow44:
remember once at sunbilla in spain for weekend on the way across to tarragona me and my mate walking across the small truck park when a guy flung open his passenger door one of his trainers shot out followed closley by a huge streak of vomit that went straight into his shoe!lol
It’s those litre bottles of vino that do it.
OTS:
Got weekended in Gib a couple of times , for the love of me i could not get a shower anywhere, even offered to pay …no chance. But at least you could get decent grub and speak to people. I took some service boats for the police with 2x 500 quicksilver engines on to catch drug smugglers etc, Bonus was having sheets on the trailer i would undo them wrapped copious amount of ■■■■ in £8 for 200 then, Leave 400 in the cab so the Guard civil would see and take 200 of me .
Santiago de compost heap, Picked up some big propellers for refurb got stuck in a lay by for the weekend not to far from a restaurant, watching this farmer plowing a field and broke down right next to me, so i helped him fix it and ended up helping him plow his fields, i was well looked after that weekend and it was fun, never put a hand in my pocket, he wouldnt let me… His daughters was fit , but the shotgun was near the back door so didnt fancy me chances lol.
Lloret de mar usual stuff.
Alcora, Total garage meeting place for OTS
Nules Upstairs downstairs say no more
La jonquera , went past the last year didnt recognise the place completley changed .
Just some of the places i use to haunt
ha,ha, upstairs downstairs 
was down there about 3 years ago, 1st time i’d been that way for years. couldn’t believe how much bigger castellon had got. the roads had changed alot, but finally found upstairs/downstairs for my night out. was shame to see the fancy shower block in the parking area had been let go, it was trashed which was a real shame. i strolled into the restaraunt/bar area and enquired with the guy about a shower. he took 2 euros off me, walked me to a glass door by the main restaraunt, opened it and shouted something up the stairs. one of the “workers” appeared, beckoned me up, and kindly showed me to 1 of the rooms with a shower 
not quite what i was expecting, but grateful of the shower.
Polished my diesel tank in Austria
Polished My wheels In Germany
Cleaned my windscrees in Switzerland
Bought windscreen flags in France
Polished the cab in Italy, robbed a lady of the night in bonfire alley
Had ■■■ in Pig alley
Upset a few people in the pudding shop
And had gallons of lovely foreign beer in every other country not mentioned, by the way, i lied about the cleaning and polishing, would never ever spend my weekends cleaning someone elses truck, better things to do.
truckyboy:
Polished my diesel tank in Austria
Polished My wheels In Germany
Cleaned my windscrees in Switzerland
Bought windscreen flags in France
Polished the cab in Italy, robbed a lady of the night in bonfire alley
Had ■■■ in Pig alley
Upset a few people in the pudding shopAnd had gallons of lovely foreign beer in every other country not mentioned, by the way, i lied about the cleaning and polishing, would never ever spend my weekends cleaning someone elses truck, better things to do.
The pudding shop was easy, the Turks brought their beautiful olive skinned women out and sat them in front of a lot of European lorry drivers then thought it would be great fun to try and stab you for winking at the lady
Be careful telling people about having ■■■ in Pig Alley. Unless you meant sur place Pigalle 
Wheel Nut:
Be careful telling people about having ■■■ in Pig Alley. Unless you meant sur place Pigalle
I was never weekended in Paris, I had enough nights out waiting to clear in Garonor than you very much but the Moulin Rouge might have made a decent distraction.
Ross.
My most memorable weekend has to be the Monaco Grand prix around a year before we changed to the €, I just pulled up on the services above Monaco for a 45 as I was heading for Milan to reload on the Monday and heard all the noise, admittedly I should have realised the GP was on that weekend as the Auto-route was overloaded with some top spec sports cars. Anyway, to cut a long story short I phoned the boss to find out what time I was meant to be loading and he said Tuesday morning so I stayed where I was, Friday night I walked down into the town and found the most expensive bar in the world and got a little wobbly making friends with a couple of Aussies who lived in the town, they suggested I meet up with them the next day in the same bar as the TV would be showing all the practice and the local English language radio would be played for commentary.
I decided to call it a night quite early as my money was going to be running out pretty fast at ff70 for a small beer. Being unable to get a cab back to the truck I spent what seemed like an hour climbing back up the hill to my truck, but a price worth paying I thought.
The next morning I wondered back down the hill to the same bar and met up with my newly found Aussie friends and they were sitting with an American who was just in town for the race, he had to stay in Nice as this year’s the prices were a little keen for him in Monaco, he was still paying FF8,000 a night for his room in Nice but seemed to think that was reasonable
His wife was apparently in town shopping so he asked me if I wanted to use her seat on Casino curve for the qualifying. What a result, so come the afternoons practice I found myself overlooking the track, not bad for my first GP. He also offered my his wife’s seat for the race day if she decided not to watch (she often didn’t) but as they were in France and all the shops shut on a Sunday she had nothing better to do and went to the race. 
I still watched it, but from inside the bar I first went to I think it was called the English Rose, but can’t swear to that, even not being on the stands the atmosphere was fantastic, you could smell the fumes from the cars, feel the vibration from the engines and it was as good as I was ever going to get. Over all I must have spent nearly £100 over the weekend, but it was worth every penny.
Apart from that weekend being that I was doing removals for about 12 years I got to see many cities, often parking in the center of town for days at a time, some of the best were in no particular order.
Germany.
Sindelfingen, I went there to visit the Mercedes factory but as luck would have it there was an international strasse festival there that weekend.
Koln, I just love the bars and the people there, my favorite bar in Germany has to be Papa Joe’s.
Sinsheim, The Autohof is pretty good, but it is the museum down the road that I really like
Berlin, just everything about it is good, parking at the Avus Autohof is free and the beer and food very cheap, 5 minutes walk finds you at the nearest S-Bahn which gets you into one of the liveliest Citys in Europe. I always start at an Irish bar in Hackescher Markt right under the S-Bahn station and just see where the night or day takes me.
Hamburg. I never did find the Reeperbahn 
Munich, Yes I made it there for the Oktober fest.
Slipping across the border into Austria is very similar to Germany in hospitality and reasonable prices as long as you pick your restaurants and bars carefully
Switzerland. This can be a little more expensive, but I have had some great weekend in the main Cities, probably the most memorable was the Langstrasse festival although I have had many good weekends in other parts of Swiss.
Spain, I’ve done nearly all of Spain, all the costa’s all the big Cities and most of the smaller ones as well, my favorite for no special reason other than I had a couple of great weekends there was a place called Pontevedra, an old town with a vibrant atmosphere, just over the border in Portugal is another great weekend for site seeing in Valença
And whilst in Portugal, both Oporto and Lisboa are well worth a visit with a camera. The Algarve is good for the beeches and night life.
I could go on but I’m sure you get the drift. The only thing I miss about not trucking any more are the fantastic weekend I have had all over Europe. I can honestly say that I have not found any nation to be inhospitable apart from kosovo just after the war but the people may well not have been Kosovens, and the only time I haven’t liked it in any country is on the odd occasion I have been in a truck stop when the Brits have been playing up, although I have also had some brilliant times parked up with Brits.