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"Andy Bonwick" <nospam.TakeThisOut@bonwick.me.uk> schreef in bericht
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> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:10:46 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> <wun.TakeThisOut@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>
>>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog
>><hogSPAM.TakeThisOut@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> typed
>>>Are you planning TOG tour 2008?
>>>
>>>I thought you might need this:
>>>
>>>http://tinyurl.com/2zhyq5
>>
>>FOYRNB. I shall be aboard the majestic GTR14.
>>
>>I have, however, decided to travel down to Dover the night before.
>>
>>Not that I'm at all superstitious...
>
> I'm glad we're not going to have to ride past you lying in the road
> this time.

He may just still be lying there at the roadside....
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Hog" <hogSPAM.DeleteThis@freenetCHIPS.co.uk>
saying something like:

>Are you planning TOG tour 2008?
>
>I thought you might need this:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/2zhyq5

Fittingly, the bloke's a truss-maker, and with a name like Mighell I
suppose he just had to be a welder.
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Derek Turner <frderek.TakeThisOut@cesmail.net> wrote in news:609nonF1pp98sU1
@mid.individual.net:

> wessie wrote:
>
>>
>> can't you search google groups on Linux?
>
> wouldn't have helped me, would it, as it's called the 'French Run' in
> the link below?
>

Ooh, tantrum.

>> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/a7040b1dff5b4e46
>
> OK so TOG Tour = The French Run, thanks, that's all I needed to know. As
> 'my' French port is S. Malo and you're planning to go North from Calais
> I'd already decided it wasn't for me. It was the change of nomenclature
> that confused me.
>

The other articles in the thread referenced TOG Tour. I just quoted the OP
as it gives a sensible sized URL. I used TOG Tour as my search string. The
term has been used for many years.

The Western Channel routes suit me better. Portsmouth & Poole are a lot
closer than Kent. As TOG lives in Surrey he tends to use Dover-Calais. He
has used Newhaven and Portsmouth on one occasion each.

If I'm going on a solo trip I tend to use LDLines from Portsmouth to Le
Havre. The extra cost of the ferry trip is mostly offset by the additional
petrol used getting to Dover. My son living near Portsmouth is obviously a
big factor too.

The Brittany Ferries routes, inc. S Malo, would be good apart from one
thing: the cost. They aren't travelling much further than LDLines yet the
price differential is usually huge.

Of course, you could stop whinging and DFV a western port tour to the
Cotentin Peninsula or Brittany.

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wessie wrote:

>
> The Brittany Ferries routes, inc. S Malo, would be good apart from one
> thing: the cost. They aren't travelling much further than LDLines yet the
> price differential is usually huge.
>
> Of course, you could stop whinging and DFV a western port tour to the
> Cotentin Peninsula or Brittany.
>

As I'm in Jersey, it's a 50 minute 'hop' to S. Malo for me. Sorry if you
thought I was 'whinging' but any run I can join from S. Malo or even
Cherbourg I will willingly partake in. DVF?????
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:48:27 GMT, wessie <putmynamehere DeleteThis @tesco.net>
wrote:

>The Western Channel routes suit me better. Portsmouth & Poole are a lot
>closer than Kent. As TOG lives in Surrey he tends to use Dover-Calais. He
>has used Newhaven and Portsmouth on one occasion each.

As TOG has said in the past, for a long weekend you really need the
shortest crossing you can manage. I'm nearer the western ports too,
but there's little point spending in a 72 hour trip spending 10+ hours
on the boat.
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:12:48 GMT, wessie <putmynamehere RemoveThis @tesco.net>
wrote:

>Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun RemoveThis @wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>> wessie <putmynamehere RemoveThis @tesco.net> typed
>>>Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun RemoveThis @wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:

>>>> I have, however, decided to travel down to Dover the night before.

>>>Are you dossing on someone's floor or using a B&B/hotel?

Nice feeder line ...
>>
>> Hotel. Somebody on here recommended this: http://www.swingate.com so I
>> booked it.

Vital info received ...

>looks a bit better than the Travelodge at Ashford

A swinging gate is always welcome.
Better than your average dogging gate, at least.

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Champ wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:48:27 GMT, wessie <putmynamehere.DeleteThis@tesco.net>
> wrote:
>
>> The Western Channel routes suit me better. Portsmouth & Poole are a lot
>> closer than Kent. As TOG lives in Surrey he tends to use Dover-Calais. He
>> has used Newhaven and Portsmouth on one occasion each.
>
> As TOG has said in the past, for a long weekend you really need the
> shortest crossing you can manage. I'm nearer the western ports too,
> but there's little point spending in a 72 hour trip spending 10+ hours
> on the boat.

Heh, S. Malo /is/ the shortest crossing I can manage! 50 mins.
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:30:46 +0000, Derek Turner <frderek.RemoveThis@cesmail.net>
wrote:

>OK so TOG Tour = The French Run, thanks, that's all I needed to know. As
>'my' French port is S. Malo and you're planning to go North from Calais
>I'd already decided it wasn't for me. It was the change of nomenclature
>that confused me.

Pauvre petit fleur preciouse.

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Pip wrote:

>
> Pauvre petit fleur preciouse.
>


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Champ <neal.TakeThisOut@champ.org.uk> wrote in news:68fvp39mr1f60ku2s04l5k2s992smk193j@
4ax.com:

> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:48:27 GMT, wessie <putmynamehere.TakeThisOut@tesco.net>
> wrote:
>
>>The Western Channel routes suit me better. Portsmouth & Poole are a lot
>>closer than Kent. As TOG lives in Surrey he tends to use Dover-Calais. He
>>has used Newhaven and Portsmouth on one occasion each.
>
> As TOG has said in the past, for a long weekend you really need the
> shortest crossing you can manage. I'm nearer the western ports too,
> but there's little point spending in a 72 hour trip spending 10+ hours
> on the boat.

As posted elsewhere, I'm overnighting in Dover before the trip in May.
Catching the overnight boat from Portsmouth puts me in Le Havre for 0800.
[0] Ready for a full day in the saddle/Seat if travelling afar[1], or in
resort by lunchtime if going for le weekend.

The return ferry gets into Portsmouth at 2130, so you can have a full day
in France, get on the boat at tea time and be home by midnight.

I contend that, for me, a Thursday to Sunday long weekend using Portsmouth
to Le Havre is little different to using the Dover-Calais route.

[0] I can't see me being in Calais for 0800 after a night in a pub with
Brownz & WUN.
[1] I drove my little Seat all the way from LeH to the Black Forest by 1600
in 2006.


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wessie wrote:
> Champ <neal.TakeThisOut@champ.org.uk> wrote in
> news:68fvp39mr1f60ku2s04l5k2s992smk193j@ 4ax.com:
>
>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:48:27 GMT, wessie <putmynamehere.TakeThisOut@tesco.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Western Channel routes suit me better. Portsmouth & Poole are a
>>> lot closer than Kent. As TOG lives in Surrey he tends to use
>>> Dover-Calais. He has used Newhaven and Portsmouth on one occasion
>>> each.
>>
>> As TOG has said in the past, for a long weekend you really need the
>> shortest crossing you can manage. I'm nearer the western ports too,
>> but there's little point spending in a 72 hour trip spending 10+
>> hours on the boat.
>
> As posted elsewhere, I'm overnighting in Dover before the trip in May.
> Catching the overnight boat from Portsmouth puts me in Le Havre for
> 0800. [0] Ready for a full day in the saddle/Seat if travelling
> afar[1], or in resort by lunchtime if going for le weekend.
>
> The return ferry gets into Portsmouth at 2130, so you can have a full
> day in France, get on the boat at tea time and be home by midnight.
>
> I contend that, for me, a Thursday to Sunday long weekend using
> Portsmouth to Le Havre is little different to using the Dover-Calais
> route.
>
> [0] I can't see me being in Calais for 0800 after a night in a pub
> with Brownz & WUN.

Heh, I think our reputation precedes us......

> [1] I drove my little Seat all the way from LeH to the Black Forest
> by 1600 in 2006.

I quite often do Boulogne-Su-Mer to the Cote in a day, and visa versa - a
long day mind you.



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"Brownz \(Mobile\)" <someone.not RemoveThis @microsoft.com> wrote in news:JHPnj.34175
$a61.15966@newsfe3-win.ntli.net:

>
>
> I quite often do Boulogne-Su-Mer to the Cote in a day, and visa versa - a
> long day mind you.
>

Cote d'Or? From B-s-M.

That's piss easy. Beaune to S Wales is a middling day. I think a long day
by motorcycle has to be 700 miles or more. Geneva to S Wales, maybe.


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Derek Turner wrote:

> wessie wrote:
>
> >
> > The Brittany Ferries routes, inc. S Malo, would be good apart from
> > one thing: the cost. They aren't travelling much further than
> > LDLines yet the price differential is usually huge.
> >
> > Of course, you could stop whinging and DFV a western port tour to
> > the Cotentin Peninsula or Brittany.
> >
>
> As I'm in Jersey, it's a 50 minute 'hop' to S. Malo for me. Sorry if
> you thought I was 'whinging' but any run I can join from S. Malo or
> even Cherbourg I will willingly partake in. DVF?????

DFV.

http://www.ukrm.net/CLUES/acronyms/acronyms_sig.html

hth

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