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[Dishevelled Den]

Lesson 1:
Repeat after me; "Le vélo est sur le toit de ma voiture"

It appears to be so very much more reasonable a fact when put that way 8-)

[Vamps]

Take care and enjoy.......

[Lazydocker]

Safe trip Nige... Enjoy

[feeutfo]

Chow.   

[SP_3.2]

Have a great time i.m sure the wine wil help

[Entwood]

Thanks for all the good wishes ..

It's a stonking 36°C here, and not a cloud in the sky..

Presently on the laptop in the bar .. cold beer to hand  .. someone has to I suppose  !

Good run down bar a couple of little "scares" .. question in the relevant area..

Hope you are all enjoying life as much as I am right now ..

See you all soon

Nige

[tunnie]

Sure you will have a good trip 

Just need to remove that burger van some idiot attached to the back of your car 

[hercules]

mmmmm wine and cheese and a big bag of chips

[Entwood]

Back on-line after a serious outage on the site !!!

Major, and I mean MAJOR storm Sunday evening, elec out for 12 hours, bits of trees bown off and several 'vans/awnings damaged .... not us fortunately. We were up in the village at a "fete de maison" when the rain started ... less than 5 minutes to get back to the 'van and we were wet through even to underwear !!! Trainers still not dry yet !!! Not seen rain like it since a typhoon in the far east.

Today totally different .. sun back out, temp back up ... and the beer is still cold ..

You all have fun ...

[Dishevelled Den]

You too E.  Glad you all weathered the storm


Here's one to calm the evening for you both;


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPgpcvbze7s&feature=related[/media]

[panderson]

Hey Entwood - I'm just back from a 2 week break in Burgandy.
If you can get the chance, take a run along the A40 - "The White Motorway" - to Geneva. What a run!!!
Scared the pants off me

[Entwood]

We is home ..

Photo's to follow once I download them off the cameras .. but some statistics ...

Miles travelled 1989 of which 1277 were towing a heavy caravan

Actual LPG Used 589.63 litres at a total cost of £372.42 = 18.72 pence/mile

Estimated petrol off the computor 98.2 galls (445.82 litres) at a cost of £579.43 = 29.13 pence/mile

Saving £207.01 = 10.41 pence/mile = 35.7%. All conversions done at €1.18 = £1 - I can't be bothered to do each transaction individually!!

Fuel prices in France fluctuated wildly .. cheapest GPL was €0:68.7 (58.22p) most expensive was €0:82.0 (69.49p). Cheapest petrol was £1:15.2 most expensive £1:25.4  Prices on Toll roads way higher than hypermarkets, but access with the van on the back made hypermarkets unuseable.. as anyone who has been to a French hypermarket fuel station will remember !

Toll fees paid £98.47 in total but to go off toll roads would have been only an extra 102 miles BUT an extra 7 1/2 hours !!! driving according to Via Michelin !!! Given that time difference my MPG would probably have been appalling ! So we opted to pay !!

[Del Boy]

Sounds like you had a good time mate, look forward to the pictures 

[Varche]

Well, has the Top gear Motorhome conversion got a toilet?

Looking forward to the photos.

sounds like you had a nice break. Great stuff.

[Omegatoy]

We is home ..

Photo's to follow once I download them off the cameras .. but some statistics ...

Miles travelled 1989 of which 1277 were towing a heavy caravan

Actual LPG Used 589.63 litres at a total cost of £372.42 = 18.72 pence/mile

Estimated petrol off the computor 98.2 galls (445.82 litres) at a cost of £579.43 = 29.13 pence/mile

Saving £207.01 = 10.41 pence/mile = 35.7%. All conversions done at €1.18 = £1 - I can't be bothered to do each transaction individually!!

Fuel prices in France fluctuated wildly .. cheapest GPL was €0:68.7 (58.22p) most expensive was €0:82.0 (69.49p). Cheapest petrol was £1:15.2 most expensive £1:25.4  Prices on Toll roads way higher than hypermarkets, but access with the van on the back made hypermarkets unuseable.. as anyone who has been to a French hypermarket fuel station will remember !

Toll fees paid £98.47 in total but to go off toll roads would have been only an extra 102 miles BUT an extra 7 1/2 hours !!! driving according to Via Michelin !!! Given that time difference my MPG would probably have been appalling ! So we opted to pay !!

right decision mate, the van would have been wrecked inside had you not done the toll roads, we tried it once the non toll roads are like something out of the blitz!!! absolutely awful condition!!