GeriatricWanderer
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The older I get the itchier my feet get.
I've only recently returned from overwintering down in Cape Town and tomorrow I'm off again back to my regular early summer bimble around France.
Everything planned in minute detail, well as far as Dunkerque, then it's the usual question at that first roundabout on the A16, left, right or straight across.
I learnt years ago, that the very best way to start a long drive from a channel port is to catch a Saturday evening ferry/train, pitch up for the night close by (I use the Dunkerque Ticket Office car park) and then an early start on Sunday morning - no ferry to catch and virtually no trucks on the road. You can get a long way on Day 1 like that.
OK, so the ferryport car park is not the prettiest place but it's close, secure and has WC facilities.
I'l be revisiting some of my favourite locations and hopefully stumbling across some new and unexplored places by defying my sat nav and taking that interesting little turn-off signed to ???????. It's worked well so many times in the past with only the occasional need to do a 25 point turn 500 metres further on.
I drive a small PVC and mostly use aires with the occasional ACSI stop although in recent years I find, travelling solo, it's often cheaper to pay the full tarrif than the ACSI discount.
I've also stumbled across a goodly number of traditional Municipals with traditional tarrifs - no bells and whistles but loads of charm and long grass where the reception opens at 7 PM - sometimes.
I was in a Municipal site at ???? last year when the usual pizza van pulled in - this one had a pukka wood-fired pizza oven in the back of a Transit panel van A lovely Calzone - What EU H&SE?
I'm not a techie so don't have any fancy communication gizmos, nor want them, so I'll catch up with you guys and gals in July. I'm sure there will be a few "Post Referendum" threads running by then Are we in, are we out, was it rigged, who's to lose their head/job, will Angela be moving into Buck House?
Have fun.
I've only recently returned from overwintering down in Cape Town and tomorrow I'm off again back to my regular early summer bimble around France.
Everything planned in minute detail, well as far as Dunkerque, then it's the usual question at that first roundabout on the A16, left, right or straight across.
I learnt years ago, that the very best way to start a long drive from a channel port is to catch a Saturday evening ferry/train, pitch up for the night close by (I use the Dunkerque Ticket Office car park) and then an early start on Sunday morning - no ferry to catch and virtually no trucks on the road. You can get a long way on Day 1 like that.
OK, so the ferryport car park is not the prettiest place but it's close, secure and has WC facilities.
I'l be revisiting some of my favourite locations and hopefully stumbling across some new and unexplored places by defying my sat nav and taking that interesting little turn-off signed to ???????. It's worked well so many times in the past with only the occasional need to do a 25 point turn 500 metres further on.
I drive a small PVC and mostly use aires with the occasional ACSI stop although in recent years I find, travelling solo, it's often cheaper to pay the full tarrif than the ACSI discount.
I've also stumbled across a goodly number of traditional Municipals with traditional tarrifs - no bells and whistles but loads of charm and long grass where the reception opens at 7 PM - sometimes.
I was in a Municipal site at ???? last year when the usual pizza van pulled in - this one had a pukka wood-fired pizza oven in the back of a Transit panel van
A lovely Calzone - What EU H&SE? I'm not a techie so don't have any fancy communication gizmos, nor want them, so I'll catch up with you guys and gals in July. I'm sure there will be a few "Post Referendum" threads running by then
Are we in, are we out, was it rigged, who's to lose their head/job, will Angela be moving into Buck House?Have fun.
