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Badknee

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I heard about the avon so soft so i got some for a holiday in moraira on the costa blanca and i got eaten alive lol
Stupid boy, it only works on the British lot not those foreign Ninga biters! :LOL::LOL:
 

Langtoftlad

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  1. I think it was @JJ who suggested that motorhoming shouldn't attempt to replicate life in your bricks'n'mortar home
 
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Good CD to sing along whilst driving; Mosquitos repellent (I'm awfully allergic) ; Spray against wasps (same reason!) also all the books I wanted to read during the year and could not find any time to (but most of the time there are too many) My special note book on which I write down all the funny things like sayings or jokes or play on words I read on FUN, and all the mistakes my private teacher corrects (free of charge ... MMmmm so he says:whistle::oops:o_O:p) all year long!
I'd like to be able to remember all the things , you funsters say all year long, be it funny, very clever, sensitive or just so very British. .... I'm afraid there's not room enough in my brain to remember all!

Frankie:):cool:
 

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Bacon is essential.. Just can't get it there..
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Anything else can be picked up there.

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Don't like e wine so first stop is Auchan to buy some and Fuel up the beast. We have a low wattage (1100w) electric griddle with glass lid, perfect as it can cook anything in it.
Wife now getting a taste for wine so have to put in a corkscrew for her !!
Make sure I have copies of all the required bits, just in case, insurance cert, breakdown number, driving licence, passports, cards numbers (in case lost or stolen) holiday insurance plus all the phone numbers for them .
When going abroad also remember to tell the bank/credit card issuer's that you might be using them when away.
 

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More than toes wet now!
As a lot of us have answered "wine" does anyone take a decent breathalyser with them as we do. French limits are significantly lower than ours.
Not up here in civilisation it ain't!:)

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Tootles

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ant powder, to put around the wheels. once they get in they really are hard to shift.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......Apart from the increased chance of getting a sun tan, what the hell is the reason for crossing Gods Channel in the first place?? Insects, immigrants, driving on the wrong side of the road, gassings, robbery............And the damned place full of idiots who cant speak the Queens English, and smell of garlic. :)
 
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......Apart from the increased chance of getting a sun tan, what the hell is the reason for crossing Gods Channel in the first place?? Insects, immigrants, driving on the wrong side of the road, gassings, robbery............And the damned place full of idiots who cant speak the Queens English, and smell of garlic. :)

Is that when you cross The Clyde?

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snowdrops

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Corkscrew for the tonnes of decent wine that will be available in France and as we get to Folkestone we have Nostalgie radio frequency already set for the other side. Love cheesy 70 and 80s french and english music to drive around :) We also take our wind up radio which is amazing and also our own Green Tea, but other than that, we buy everything to eat over there, much more interesting than british nosh :D
 

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Tea bags, Marmite, Jam (French conserve is toooooo sweet) Coffee, Salad Cream. Oh yes, dog, Passports, ummmmm!?! Oh, hubby, to do the driving!

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GWAYGWAY

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What you really must have are Fray Bentos Pies. Perfect motorhome grub.


JJ :cool:[/QUOTE]
That only applies if you have an oven or need to level the van a bit.
We went off to the Kent Show at Detling and when we got there SHE had forgotten to put cups in the van, they were in a bag with other things on the list but SHE forgot to put the bag on board..
Did you know that they do not sell cups at shows, or not that one anyway. Drinking coffee out of a tumbler seems wrong somehow
 

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Apart from massively improved chance of actually stopping in a relaxed manner,
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......Apart from the increased chance of getting a sun tan, what the hell is the reason for crossing Gods Channel in the first place?? Insects, immigrants, driving on the wrong side of the road, gassings, robbery............And the damned place full of idiots who cant speak the Queens English, and smell of garlic. :)



Just what I was thinking after we eventually got parked on the wrong side of town, having been turned away from two other car parks, but then I got to choosing which winter clothing to select and wondering if the dogs also needed rainware before we trudged towards town to see what delights were on offer, the wind and the rain rather put us off having a greasy burger and tepid cup of tea on the sea front, amusements there were, but they didn't amuse me, I came to realise that the locals were struggling with the Queens english, didn't matter which side of the road you drive when traffic is static half the time, insects are preferable to frostbite and the smell of garlic wins over what I could smell. Oh well back to our 28 pound a night campsite to dry out, at least we had wi fi so we could look at chunnel timetables.

We did live in France for a few years and I will agree that much of the wine is of very dubious quality and much of the food is inedible but how glorious it is to be able to roam and be welcome in a motorhome.

What should I choose
 

bhs

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The answer is Skegness (I was born there and went back for old times sake)

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I heard about the avon so soft so i got some for a holiday in moraira on the costa blanca and i got eaten alive lol

Just come back from Moraira, used Skin so soft and Deet but still gotten bitten on bits I missed. We bought Raid to spray the bedrooms as one night a rogue mozzie got up my pj shorts and had a midnight feast.:D
Skin do soft works for me with midges.(y)
 
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The more I go the less I feel I need to take.

Ice cube trays is really the only thing I bother to remember now.
 

Tootles

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Just what I was thinking after we eventually got parked on the wrong side of town, having been turned away from two other car parks, but then I got to choosing which winter clothing to select and wondering if the dogs also needed rainware before we trudged towards town to see what delights were on offer, the wind and the rain rather put us off having a greasy burger and tepid cup of tea on the sea front, amusements there were, but they didn't amuse me, I came to realise that the locals were struggling with the Queens english, didn't matter which side of the road you drive when traffic is static half the time, insects are preferable to frostbite and the smell of garlic wins over what I could smell. Oh well back to our 28 pound a night campsite to dry out, at least we had wi fi so we could look at chunnel timetables.
Just as I said. Stupid going abroad. Much better in England. (y)(y)
The answer is Skegness (I was born there and went back for old times sake)
Good lad. Glad you decided that France was crap. (y)(y)

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