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Honeymoon Roadtrip to Mull
#31
I never thought of frogs as a subject for taxidermy!
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#32
Wonderful ! Congratulations on wedding and honeymoon!
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#33
Thanks all for the kind messages! I've barely touched the car since getting back and there's a bit of mechanical investigation still needed before I head back out on any more further afield trips. I've been eyeing up taking the ferry to Spain and driving back for a while...
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#34
Do it! I don't have experience of Spanish roads but Reckless Rat drove to Compostella from southern France a couple of years ago.
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#35
Time passes so quickly these days. It was 5 years ago as yesterday I got back!

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You shouldn't have any problems, Rupert, as long as you plan your journey in advance, prepare your stops (I always use a hotel with parking) and keep away from motorways and fast dual carriageways.
Rural Spain and France are much quieter than Hingerland. 150 to 200 miles a day is easily doable in an RP, more if the roads are flat.
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#36
5 YEARS !
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#37
Well Gez, My mother warned me that your life accelerates away from you as you get older. She was about the same age as I am now and I am saying the same thing to my kids.
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#38
(27-09-2024, 08:36 AM)Reckless Rat Wrote: You shouldn't have any problems, Rupert, as long as you plan your journey in advance, prepare your stops (I always use a hotel with parking) and keep away from motorways and fast dual carriageways.
Rural Spain and France are much quieter than Hingerland. 150 to 200 miles a day is easily doable in an RP, more if the roads are flat.

I have to say Bruce most of my overseas trips have been 'planned' as we went along in the car, and I've only ever booked a room for the first or last night near the ferry port. I've never yet failed to find a campsite or a guest house of some sort, though I do tend to avoid busy areas in peak season. I appreciate that degree of vagueness is not for everyone, but it does free you completely from the need to be at a given point by the end of the day.

When I was a little younger and even more foolish we reached Andorra from the channel in three days in the Ulster, camping at Blois and Brive-la-Gaillarde - we were pushing it a bit, but with another day in hand it should be comfortable; and as Bruce says, you may often have the road to yourself.
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#39
Not really knowing where I was going, and based on the fact that I was going to be doing about 250 miles a day, I really wanted to be sure of a decent place to bed down for the night, with a restaurant for me and secure parking for the "Tacot". Normally I would be more than happy to take a chance, but that part of Spain is not highly populated and a lot of the places I passed through were like the town in "High Plains Drifter" by Clint Eastwood, with banjo music playing in the background...

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