Hello and welcome to another episode of the Gray NATO, a Hodinck

podcast. It's a loose discussion of travel, diving, driving, gear, and most certainly watches.

This is episode 83, and we thank you so much for listening.

I haven't been up to that much in the last couple of weeks I've been home and just kind of underwater with several different work projects.

But Jason, you've been traveling a ton.

Let's start with a download from your recent adventure.

Yeah, I can certainly do that.

So my wife and I just got back on Sunday from, I guess it was about nine days over in the UK,

and it was really a proper sort of vacation kind of getaway.

The excuse for going, and I think I had mentioned this on a couple of previous shows,

was a family event that was happening last Thursday in London.

And we decided to tag on a few days early and do some exploring out in Wales.

And you know, I got great advice and from from a few listeners and

and certainly made good use of that took a lot of notes and hit a few places that

were recommended but you know the way the trip kind of shook out is we got in on a Sunday morning on the overnight

flight at about 9 o'clock, picked up a rental car and for this trip I was able to use some banked credit card points and was able to rent a Jaguar E-Pase.

So I don't know if you've driven one of these, but E pace is I wasn't familiar with it I thought the E stood for you know electric or something and it was some sort of no that's the I pace. Okay. It's confusing. So I think the E is the one that's smaller than the F pace right? Yes. Yes. So when we saw it I thought oh

F pace like it's an electric F pace, but then I noticed it's a diesel and you're right.'s a smaller version of the F-PACE and I think it's a nicely

proportioned really sharp car good size you know initially we had hoped to get know, I naively thought that a ranger over would be a really fun vehicle to kind of take to Wales, which is sort of the birthplace of land rovers dating back to the 40s, but you know having seen the roads now and driven on the roads and Wales which are extremely narrow

I was happy to have kind of a smaller vehicle and the E-Pase was really really fun fun. You know, you've done a lot of these great car trips over the past couple of years driving some really cool exotic cars and I haven't had that many experiences doing that and so taking the e-pace across the UK for you know I

think we had it for four days was really really fun it kind of felt nice to be you

know driving on the right side of the car, left side of the road in a British car,

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