There are no borders in Europe for the general public. You'll just be a filthy foreigner wherever you are.Taipan wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 9:51 pmFerry was £208 return. We're going to Tarragona in northern Spain and we've given ourselves 3 clear days to get there. That should give us enough time to enjoy the drive with time to stop here and there etc. I was more thinking of how much of a pain has Brexit make crossing the borders? Are the Frenchies making us have it!
I was that before Brexit!Rockburner wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 9:56 pmThere are no borders in Europe for the general public. You'll just be a filthy foreigner wherever you are.Taipan wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 9:51 pmFerry was £208 return. We're going to Tarragona in northern Spain and we've given ourselves 3 clear days to get there. That should give us enough time to enjoy the drive with time to stop here and there etc. I was more thinking of how much of a pain has Brexit make crossing the borders? Are the Frenchies making us have it!
So it doesn't take longer to get into France with lots of form filling etc?
Le Customs is a tiny bit more interested in rooting out booze and fags. Any form filling is entirely the fault of covids.
Right now I don't know.Taipan wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 10:04 pmI was that before Brexit!Rockburner wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 9:56 pmThere are no borders in Europe for the general public. You'll just be a filthy foreigner wherever you are.Taipan wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 9:51 pm
Ferry was £208 return. We're going to Tarragona in northern Spain and we've given ourselves 3 clear days to get there. That should give us enough time to enjoy the drive with time to stop here and there etc. I was more thinking of how much of a pain has Brexit make crossing the borders? Are the Frenchies making us have it!
Have a look at Newhaven Dieppe.
Yes, we've done that crossing few times on Normany trips, but the wifes hates that crossing! Plus we maybe heading north of Paris to the parc natural outside Troyes?Demannu wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 8:01 pmHave a look at Newhaven Dieppe.
Firstly, customs on both sides there dgas.
Never had to open the garage up in all the times I've been through there. Crossing is a bit longer but you get further into France and can avoid that bit of peage outside Boulogne to Rouen.
Anyway, as Bob says heat gun or chemical guy tire dressing gel stuff will sort it.
It was also rattling about and doing my nut in on the drive home, so a lot of that will be binned. I suspect the wife will want our own stuff anyway?
But it did drive lovely and would exceed the legal limit easily enough. It's based on a 2010 Fiat Ducato Mulitjet 100 which apparently has a timing chain and not cambelt? I obviously need to check this out to be sure, but good news if that's correct. If not it'll get one before it goes anywhere. Only don't 33k, but not a risk I'll take. Just had an oil service and 4 brand new tyres, which were fitted at his house and hadn't even been on the road until I drove it! No solar panels but you can plug one into the current system. I got him down enough to pay for one, so I'll look into that, that way we can use the aires on our way to Spain iN August.
But she doesn't want to go away tomorrow as it needs to be cleaned and checked and whatever else the fuck she was going on about! The foot went firmly down and we are going away. 
