Honeymoon Roadtrip to Mull

[Robert Leigh]

I never thought of frogs as a subject for taxidermy!

[gezparton]

Wonderful ! Congratulations on wedding and honeymoon!

[RupertW]

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...

[gezparton]

Do it! I don't have experience of Spanish roads but Reckless Rat drove to Compostella from southern France a couple of years ago.

[Reckless Rat]

Time passes so quickly these days. It was 5 years ago as yesterday I got back!



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.

[gezparton]

5 YEARS !

[Old Dave]

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.

[Chris KC]

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.

[Reckless Rat]

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...