"Doki" wrote in message
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Firstly: Sorry for the americanism.

Now, onto the post proper. Next year I quite fancy going on a fairly long
camping holiday in the summer. I also fancy going around Europe.
Preferably in the Golf if I can convince it to be suitably reliable.

Anyway, the route I've just scribbled on Google maps goes here
(Nottingham) to Dover, on to France via some sort of tunnel or ferry, down
to the south of France, over the Alps, into Italy, then Slovenia, Hungary,
Cz, Wolfsburg, the Ring and home. However, that does boil down to near on
4000 miles, or 200 miles a day. I suspect that might be taking the **** a
bit (I'd guess at around 4 hours in the car if I drive every day).

OTOH, knock off Slovenia, Hungary and Cz and you take about 700 miles off,
which would make the driving more manageable, considering as there'd be
some need to stop and camp and sit on the beach some days etc. My bird
will be present so constant driving will not be acceptable. P'raps it's
better to do 1000 miles in a day rather than do 200 miles every day for a
week...

What say the road trip boys (this means you Dan)? And anyone who's been to
XYZ and can say "That place is an effing ****e hole, you'd rather be in
Rotherham".


Everyone else has covered it with better info than me, I'd just say, avoid
Monaco/Cannes - they're absolute **** holes. And book places, don't just
drive and hope - it make it crap and worrying :-)

--
Dan B
Clio R27

"DanB" wrote in message
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Everyone else has covered it with better info than me, I'd just say, avoid
Monaco/Cannes - they're absolute **** holes. And book places, don't just
drive and hope - it make it crap and worrying :-)

If you're camping in France outside peak times, drive and hope is fine.
Means if you like a place you can stay around and vice versa too.

cheers,
clive

"DanB" gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

And book places, don't just drive and hope - it make it crap and
worrying :-)

God, no.

We've always found fantastic places by just "drive and hope", and always
been disappointed by places we've booked.

"Adrian" wrote in message
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"DanB" gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

And book places, don't just drive and hope - it make it crap and
worrying :-)

God, no.

We've always found fantastic places by just "drive and hope", and always
been disappointed by places we've booked.


Well we didn't really know where we were going, none of us had any
experience doing a trip like that, and also couldn't really camp cos of my
back so were relying on finding cheap hotels - which is a worry in Monaco
heh. And to be honest, with the 'bed' in Monaco - we'd have been better off
camping...

On another note, me related - I was in searing agony on Saturday
evening/night and my legs had felt like dead weights all day Friday and
Saturday, and I woke up on Sunday morning (having being seriously doped up
by a Doc on Saturday night) and wasn't really able to move my legs. Which
was somewhat un-nerving. It became apparent I was able to move my lefe leg
a bit and only really my right foot a bit. As the day progressed, and up
until now, movement has got better and now I can move the left leg pretty
much ok, although it's still very weak, and I can move my right leg a bit
(which is about 10,000% as much as I could yesterday AM). So here's hoping
they keep getting better and I am able to stand on them again :-)

--
Dan B
Clio R27

On 16 Aug, 19:01, (SteveH) wrote:

and Reims. Never been to
Reims myself, but really need to do it soon.

Why? I was there a week ago and it was... unremarkable.

fishman wrote:

On 16 Aug, 19:01, (SteveH) wrote:

and Reims. Never been to
Reims myself, but really need to do it soon.

Why? I was there a week ago and it was... unremarkable.

Having seen the pictures, it's just somewhere I want to go.

Although I'm kicking myself for not going before they repainted it :-(
--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Ducati 750SS - Hongdou GY200
Alfa 75 TSpark - Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE

On 17 Aug, 01:09, (Steve Firth) wrote:

Recreate Ronin on the way through St Tropez, Cannes and Nice and drive
down the Grand Canyon du Verdon.

Yes on that last point. Excellent roads. Castellane is an awesome
little town from where you can go whitewater rafting on that amazing
river. Great camp site there too, a few minutes out of town with
spectacular views.

fishman writes:

On 17 Aug, 01:09, (Steve Firth) wrote:

Recreate Ronin on the way through St Tropez, Cannes and Nice and drive
down the Grand Canyon du Verdon.

Yes on that last point. Excellent roads. Castellane is an awesome
little town from where you can go whitewater rafting on that amazing
river. Great camp site there too, a few minutes out of town with
spectacular views.

AOL - been there earlier this year and the scenery is even more
spectacular than I remembered. Sometimes it helps if you decide to take
your wife to all those places you used to go to twenty-odd years ago.

Mind ewe, it was bloody cold there thanks to the weather.

--
'89 Mazda RX-7 Convertible Mazda MX-5 trackday shed
'94 Mitsubishi Evo II Audi A8

On 17 Aug, 23:31, "DanB" wrote:

Everyone else has covered it with better info than me, I'd just say, avoid
Monaco/Cannes - they're absolute **** holes. *And book places, don't just
drive and hope - it make it crap and worrying :-)

I loved Monaco - great vibe to it. I was expecting it to be
pretentious and poncy but it seems to have transcended that and it is
actually very chilled out. If you don't pre book, tourist information
is always guaranteed to find you a decent room/campsite somewhere to
suit your budget. Unless you arrive when there is some large event
going on. In which case you do the road trip thing and find a nearby
town with a nice place to stay or WILD CAMP!

Timo Geusch wrote:

fishman writes:

On 17 Aug, 01:09, (Steve Firth) wrote:

Recreate Ronin on the way through St Tropez, Cannes and Nice and drive
down the Grand Canyon du Verdon.

Yes on that last point. Excellent roads. Castellane is an awesome
little town from where you can go whitewater rafting on that amazing
river. Great camp site there too, a few minutes out of town with
spectacular views.

AOL - been there earlier this year and the scenery is even more
spectacular than I remembered. Sometimes it helps if you decide to take
your wife to all those places you used to go to twenty-odd years ago.

Mind ewe, it was bloody cold there thanks to the weather.

I've just been looking at a possible trip for next spring, as the
'budget' airlines have stuck little charges on everything in order to
bump up their headline prices to those which match the proper
airlines.[1]

So, the plan in late March or early April would be:

Home to Portsmouth for the ferry to Caen
Caen, via Le Mans to the 'Ring.
the 'Ring to Reims then onto Clermont-Ferrand before heading back to
another port, possibly Santander or Roscoff, to come home.

--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
www.italiancar.co.uk - Ducati 750SS - Hongdou GY200
Alfa 75 TSpark - Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE