I assume that this will be in the ‘wide carriage’ along with me:
M’off…. For the month of June
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- Start date
Will the car fit three petite ladies in ?
A 570S Spyder McLaren and an E Type waiting to be called:
French passport control, the last check and impediment to free travel for a month:
And into lane 16:
Then off we go….
Bloke in front had left his lights on…. Welcome to flattening your battery during the crossing. Rather than get stuck behind him (it’s happened to me before) I decided to tell him. He thinks I am a top fellow.
French passport control, the last check and impediment to free travel for a month:
And into lane 16:
Then off we go….
Bloke in front had left his lights on…. Welcome to flattening your battery during the crossing. Rather than get stuck behind him (it’s happened to me before) I decided to tell him. He thinks I am a top fellow.
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What's that thing by your RH rear?
They put a chock behind the offside rear wheel in the wide bodied vehicles’ carriages.
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En la belle France.
I took the coast road, rather than the short hop down the motorway. Two reasons:
I was put onto an earlier train, though I am in no hurry.
Pulling out of the slip road onto the D191 near Marquise, is not that easy in a right hand drive car, due to the angle the junction takes. You can’t see too well to your left, not helped as any view you might have is blocked by cars turning left. It’s no better in a low sports car either.
So, it’s the reasonably scenic coast road for me.
I am obviously a pupil of the Giles School of Photography:
The cafe I always try to stay in at Csp Gris Nez:
I took the coast road, rather than the short hop down the motorway. Two reasons:
I was put onto an earlier train, though I am in no hurry.
Pulling out of the slip road onto the D191 near Marquise, is not that easy in a right hand drive car, due to the angle the junction takes. You can’t see too well to your left, not helped as any view you might have is blocked by cars turning left. It’s no better in a low sports car either.
So, it’s the reasonably scenic coast road for me.
I am obviously a pupil of the Giles School of Photography:
The cafe I always try to stay in at Csp Gris Nez:
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A wander down to the sea:
A German ‘Tobruk’ that has tumbled from the slowly eroding cliff onto the beach;
There are some quite good information boards, detailing the local footpaths:
A German ‘Tobruk’ that has tumbled from the slowly eroding cliff onto the beach;
There are some quite good information boards, detailing the local footpaths:
Any overloaded blow-up boats?
None to see.
Tactically, they launch at night or from up to 20 miles inland. I may well see a column of dark fellows in the morning, trogging along a D road which leads to the Calais / Boulogne motorway.
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Nosebag….
Fish soup and Deux Caps
And a fine assortment of bottom dwellers and sewage pipe outlet merchants:
Fish soup and Deux Caps
And a fine assortment of bottom dwellers and sewage pipe outlet merchants:
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Day two
Cap Gris Nez to Arnage (Le Mans)
265 miles
Arnarge, is the small town which gives its name to the famous right angle corner on the Le Mans race circuit. Also to a model of Bentley car.
I have a choice of ways to go. Either ‘direct’ (motorways) for 266 miles in roughly four hours, or ‘scenic’ for 264 miles in roughly six hours. It’s the same distance but it takes a significant two hours longer. It’s this big time difference which many bods do not take into account when asking for ‘Twisty route A to B, no motorways”. I will though take the motorway (I have my payage ‘blipper’ thing) from Cap Gris Nez until I just before Rouen, not least as the ‘cross country route’ via Abbeville or via Amiens is not necessarily that great or it takes you too far to the east. Not least, avoiding the motorway to Rouen, will add several additional hours to the overall journey time. I’d rather have breakfast and then tootle off at my leisure.
Lunch (a snack) will probably be taken on the hoof, somewhere around halfway, mileage’wise. I have put in a ‘via point’ at Les Andelys, which is about halfway. As you can name a ‘via point’ I have called it ‘halfway / lunch’ which it will announce as a reminder to me to find somewhere to park and eat:
Google tells me that there should be something there:
Cap Gris Nez to Arnage (Le Mans)
265 miles
Arnarge, is the small town which gives its name to the famous right angle corner on the Le Mans race circuit. Also to a model of Bentley car.
I have a choice of ways to go. Either ‘direct’ (motorways) for 266 miles in roughly four hours, or ‘scenic’ for 264 miles in roughly six hours. It’s the same distance but it takes a significant two hours longer. It’s this big time difference which many bods do not take into account when asking for ‘Twisty route A to B, no motorways”. I will though take the motorway (I have my payage ‘blipper’ thing) from Cap Gris Nez until I just before Rouen, not least as the ‘cross country route’ via Abbeville or via Amiens is not necessarily that great or it takes you too far to the east. Not least, avoiding the motorway to Rouen, will add several additional hours to the overall journey time. I’d rather have breakfast and then tootle off at my leisure.
Lunch (a snack) will probably be taken on the hoof, somewhere around halfway, mileage’wise. I have put in a ‘via point’ at Les Andelys, which is about halfway. As you can name a ‘via point’ I have called it ‘halfway / lunch’ which it will announce as a reminder to me to find somewhere to park and eat:
Google tells me that there should be something there:
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Amazing what you can buy in duty Free these days. #brexitbonus
It’s a touch on the damp side this morning:
That’s the great thing about going by car. Just chuck your overnight bag in the passenger footwell and drive off. No faffing about, getting wet. Radio 4 is booming in…..
On the road at 09:40. MyRoute tells me that it’s two hours 40 minutes to my lunch stop at Les Andelys and five hours 51 minutes to my destination at Arnarge. It’s usually pretty accurate, assuming no intermediate stops or delays.
That’s the great thing about going by car. Just chuck your overnight bag in the passenger footwell and drive off. No faffing about, getting wet. Radio 4 is booming in…..
On the road at 09:40. MyRoute tells me that it’s two hours 40 minutes to my lunch stop at Les Andelys and five hours 51 minutes to my destination at Arnarge. It’s usually pretty accurate, assuming no intermediate stops or delays.
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The motorway was fine all the way along, with very little traffic. It was quite nice, in between massive bursts of rain to see the wide panorama of heavily wooded hills. The D roads off the motorway, heading to Les Abdelys were fine, though do watch out for the speed bumps in a low car with no front lifter.
Perfect timing, to arrive in Les Anderlys at about 12:15 to buy some fuel and make a new friend. She was very excited about the car. She could as she put it, “Rest happy now”:
It is market day in the town but I managed to wriggle into a parking spot:
Time for a snack…..
Lunch done, it’s back on the road at 13:50. MyRoute tells me I should be at Arnage at just gone 17:00:
Perfect timing, to arrive in Les Anderlys at about 12:15 to buy some fuel and make a new friend. She was very excited about the car. She could as she put it, “Rest happy now”:
It is market day in the town but I managed to wriggle into a parking spot:
Time for a snack…..
Lunch done, it’s back on the road at 13:50. MyRoute tells me I should be at Arnage at just gone 17:00:
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Hope you weren't sniffing the seat after at the pumps.
I would have waited for a quiet layby.
I must say she was, as our friend ‘The Fool’ puts it…. “Ah, sweet child” or, what my best man described as: “An enthusiastic amateur”. Happy days.
Ahh Bless her. It must’ve been them rose tinted glasses…
Which category:
A. For sitting on you your face
B. For sitting on your lap
C. For amusing herself?
Where is Ketchup? 
PS: I can not quite make it out what does your hat say.
Women driven by …..???
Dreams.
It’s the (very fast) Iron Dames (all female drivers) race team, who will be competing at Le Mans again this year.
Iron Dames - Wikipedia
