post codes on a zumo

[chas820]

I must be doing something wrong,I`m going over to France tomorrow with two friends.We are going to the Blockhouse where they used to launch rockets at us,problem is when I entered the post code in to my computer to search for it the find function would not let me list the whole of the post code.When I tried it just beeps and the drop down list shows most of the number but with AA at the end.I found it in the end in the nearest places list.Also when I tried to enter the post code 3700 (a place in Belgium) it wont let me add the last zero.Any ideas?
Using Mapsource 2012:30 and a Zumo 660

 

[The Grey One]

I must be doing something wrong,I`m going over to France tomorrow with two friends.We are going to the Blockhouse where they used to launch rockets at us,problem is when I entered the post code in to my computer to search for it the find function would not let me list the whole of the post code.When I tried it just beeps and the drop down list shows most of the number but with AA at the end.I found it in the end in the nearest places list.Also when I tried to enter the post code 3700 (a place in Belgium) it wont let me add the last zero.Any ideas?
Using Mapsource 2012:30 and a Zumo 660

You will find that postcodes are not a lot of help in mainland Europe. Unlike the UK they cover a large area and do not pinpoint an address. We still get people coming here who simply put in our postcode and then are surprised that they spend a frustrating hour or so being lost when they should be enjoying the first beer. Search on the town or village name, zoom in and find your destination or use co ordinates if possible. I use goggle earth linked to Mapsource to check places.

John

 

[NLC]

Mapsource / Basecamp sucks for postal code. Best way that I have found is use Google Maps and then input lat/long into Mapsource/Basecamp.

 

[Bumpkin]

I`m going over to France tomorrow with two friends.We are going to the Blockhouse where they used to launch rockets at us

Is this the Eperlecques Blockhouse

Would be keen to hear what you think, self and four others are going there on the way to our week away in the Vosges mountains in late June.

 

[chas820]

Thanks for that lads,at least it wasnt me being a complete numpty As for the Blockhouse it is quite a site.There is not much in the way of interaction just a few places where you push a language button and a set of speakers tell you what was where etc.The thickness of the concrete structure has to be seen to be believed and the size of the "tallboy" bomb to get through it.It`s now 8Euro to get in.If you get time you should also visit "La Capoule" which is another ww2 rocket launch site.That one is more professionally set up as you walk around inside it.More Americanised.You do get to go inside the blockhouse but a lot of it is flooded.

 

[Wapping]

Is this the Eperlecques Blockhouse

That webpages is headed.....

Le Blockhouse d'Eperlecques...... What do you think?

It doesn't look much like a cheese shop, that's for sure.

 

[Bumpkin]

That webpages is headed.....

Le Blockhouse d'Eperlecques...... What do you think?

It doesn't look much like a cheese shop, that's for sure.

I maybe a Bumpkin but I'm not that stupid... I was asking if that was the blockhouse he is going to, re-read my question in the content of what I quoted from his post...

 

[Wapping]

Your question was: 'Is this the Eperlecques Blockhouse?', followed by a link to..... Well, I guess you know where the link lead.... Now relax.

To answer your question: It's as interesting as a very large block of massive (partially smashed) concrete deep in a wood can be. Listen to the simple commentary at each of the listening posts to get a feel for what sort of mischief the Hun got up to, how difficult it was to actually hit the thing (despite its size) from the air and spare a thought for the army of mistreated slave labourers the Germans brought in to construct the project, build the support railways and not least the poor sods on whose heads the massive rockets fell. The other possibly interesting thing is the really quite successful subterfuge the Germans put in place to disguise the site's real purpose. Of course if nobody slaving on the site had ever seen a rocket, then it is incredibly difficult to imagine one.

In all there are three main V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais region, but a host of very much smaller launch sites, most of which are lost to time, undergrowth or rebuilding.

The Eperlecques blockhouse, V2's only

La Coupole, V1's only. This is a much bigger museum than at the V2 site

The V3 'Super gun'. This is interesting in as much as the gun was the forerunner of the Iraq 'super gun' over which there was so much trouble a few years back.

http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/visit/visit-2caps-mimoyec-v3.htm

http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation history/WW2/v3.htm

There are assorted threads on UKGSer (pictures etc) on both the V1 and V2 sites, along with many independent pages on the web. Less about the V3 site.