Here is a picture of our old Compass magnum and our new Burstner Nexxo
Well just packing the MH for our trip to France next Saturday and checking the tyres and anything else that needs to be done, will have to put the bikes on the back on Friday night when I finish work as we are hitting the road early Saturday morning.
I don't know whether to stay with the M1 -M25 or have a change and go down the A1 then the M25.
we are booked on the 15:50 euro tunnel then when we arrive in Calais we will go straight to the Auchen supermarket fill up with cheap French diesel, get any supply's we need for the weekend (beer, wine) then spend the night at the yacht basin.
then the plan on Sunday is to head through Belgium to Luxembourg where we can top up with even cheaper fuel and may see what other duty free goods there is worth getting there.
Sunday night will be spent at the aire in Metz http://www.metz.fr/lieux/lieu-1941.php , but all that could change it just depends on the weather forecast so we might end up going south.
I don't know whether to stay with the M1 -M25 or have a change and go down the A1 then the M25.
we are booked on the 15:50 euro tunnel then when we arrive in Calais we will go straight to the Auchen supermarket fill up with cheap French diesel, get any supply's we need for the weekend (beer, wine) then spend the night at the yacht basin.
then the plan on Sunday is to head through Belgium to Luxembourg where we can top up with even cheaper fuel and may see what other duty free goods there is worth getting there.
Sunday night will be spent at the aire in Metz http://www.metz.fr/lieux/lieu-1941.php , but all that could change it just depends on the weather forecast so we might end up going south.
In July 2013we decided to treat ourselves to a new motorhome after looking at hundreds of vans we decided on the burstner nexxo t660, we chose this model because it had the perfect layout for our needs.
it has a very nice comfy fixed French bed much better than making up the bed in our old compass magnum.
we have had a couple of weekends in the dales but the big test will be in late September when we travel to Alsace for 3 weeks, I hope to get internet connection while we are there and try to keep the blog updated.
it has a very nice comfy fixed French bed much better than making up the bed in our old compass magnum.
the view of rocamadour
that's our motorhome right in the middle of the picture
Its been a long time
Well it’s been a long time since I’ve posted on here in fact
it’s been a couple of years.
In the last couple of years we have done about 4 trips to
France the last one was in May 2013 to the Dordogne the weather wasn’t that
good but we had a great couple of weeks, from there we travelled up to Normandy
for a couple of days and visited several war museum’s and then onto Ypres for
the last couple of days and went to see the last post at Mein gate what a very moving experience it was.
We set of from cambrils about 8am heading back into France;
we had planned to spend a week making our way home but due to unforeseen circumstances
we had to head home straight away.
I carried on driving
all day stopping for short breaks, getting to the outskirts of Paris about 11pm
we decided to stop for a bit of sleep, while parked up trying to sleep a car
started to drive round the service area stopping to check us out, so we moved
on getting to Calais about 3am. After booking on the 9 am ferry I parked up in
the lane and was just about to drop off to sleep when we were awoken by one of
the ferry staff telling us we could get on this ferry.
We arrived in Dover about 6 am and drove straight home,
walking through the front door at 11:30.
Never again am I going to drive like that.
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