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mandyandandy

Hi,

Still sitting here, reading everyone else's trip reports and just can't wait!! We are going to Cantebury Aire on the night of the 14th then hoping to get on the tunnel early Friday 15th and down to Le Croytoy.

I will PM you the co ordinates as I did for someone else, let me know if you get them as I think my first lot went into his spam box. Having Widdler as your name doesn't help Confused

Will try and sort it now,

Mandy

Pusser

I am more nervous in UK than France. France has normally beautifully kept roads, parking is a doddle and very often free, fuel is cheaper of course and garages normally huge areas but you do need to keep to speed limits though villages. They are hot in villages. Even then, worse case scenaio is 3 years in the Bastille.

Almost everywhere you go wiill be other motorhomers and advice always to hand even if it is in foreign as you still get those lazy foreigners who did not pay attention when learning our language in school.

In UK we have mainly inappropriate roads for the size of vehicles, the speed of vehicles and the quantity of vehicles and our roads are becoming cart tracks with some very dangerous bumps, cracks and holes and of course, hardly anywhere to park and should you get lucky, pay handsomely for the lucky find.

bandaid · Last edited by bandaid on Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:16 am; edited 1 time in total

France is a very civilised place really. They charge on lots of motorways, but the facilities are so good, mostly.

The standard of motorway driving is better than ours, and they aint so crowded, mostly,

Towns tend to have an HGV bypassing thing, mostly, and when you do go somewhere nice, the councils seem very tourist friendly. They actually make motorcyclists welcome, so motorhomers dont have a problem.

The foods great, the scenery mostly is great, and lets be honest, a town is a town is a town. Always just a brick and concrete absess on the countryside.
(If you dont believe or agree with me, then show me a town thats more beautiful than a tree.)

Lastly of course, theres a good axim....

" the worse it is at the time, the better the story is later "

mandyandandy

What an excellent quote.

Going to put that on a poster that I can hold up as we are driving down streets that only looks big enough for Mini if your lucky. Or an aire that now has a new estate built on it or the bus company has taken it over and it takes 3 more attempts to find an Aire that actually exists.

I could end up wearing the poster before too long but it will be worth it at the time.

Thanks Smile

Mandy