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Day before!
- Car checked out ok fueled and oiled up.
- Checked out headlamp converters, 2 Triangles, First Aid Kit, Fire Ext., Spare bulbs & Hi Vis jackets
- Cleaned out and smelling pretty
- Sat Nav programmed and map book marked up if needed
- Camera, Laptop & Phones all charged up and ready
- Day 1 & 2 on route drinks & nibbles sorted
- Small amount of supplies and bedding coming with us all ready
- Checked out all travel documents, reservation numbers & Euros
- Just checking latest weather and traffic around Dover due to Eurotunnel fire.
- YEP!!...... IM READY ----- Hope to update here as we go along ( I Say Hope after last time of no connections)
Planned Outward Journey Sunday & Monday Est Times Total 1085Miles
- [Day 1] 05:30 Dep Wellingborough ( M11/M25) Ammended to 05:00 (Actual 05:10)
- Hold Up at Dartford bridge
- 08:30 Arr Dover (for 09:15 sailing??) (Actual 08:35 Via M1/A2 )
- Depart dead on time
- 12:00 Dep Calais (Actual11:45)
- 13:00 Passing Arras (A26/A1 (Actual12:52)
- Half hour break A1 Junc 11 (13:555 - 14:20) 3m Extra took Wrong exit Oops
- Toll €17.30
- Pass CDG Airport 15:00
- 15:20 Circum Navigate Paris Ring Road
- A86 -A3 From CDG = Bad
- Blvd Pariphique Scary
- Took Wrong turn off but recovered at next Junction easy PHEWWWwww
- Easy driving south clear roads
- Toll €7.70
- Half hour break this sector
- Toll €2.60
- Pass Magny Cours Race Circuit
- 19:40 Arr Ibis Moulins (A77/N7) (Actual 19:15) ------ 549 Miles Today
- (Can see McDonalds from bedroom window) Not too tired
- [Day 2] 07:00 Dep Ibis Moulins (Actual 07:30
- Loads of new road building but didnt get lost
- 08:00 Passing Clermont-Ferrand (N9/A71)
- Passing old Volcanos Inc Puy De Dome
- Half hour break at high wooded view point
- 10:30 Cross Millau Viaduct (A75/E11) (Actual 12::00 - 12:40)
- Half hour break @ sceneric picnic area
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- Miles of high climbs & gourges, beautiful scenery
- 14:00 Cross France/Spain Border (A9)
- Half hour break.See Start of Pyrenees
- Pass Barcelona Race Circuit (RAINING)
- 15:50 Passing Barcelona (A7) (Actual 017:202)
- Half hour break this sector)
- 17:20 Arr Cambril Park (A7) (Actual 18:55) ------ 535 Miles Today
Tuesday Schedul Total 68 Miles
- 09:00 Dep Cambrils Park
- Drive Around & park up in Salou on seafront
- 13:00 Head North west of Salou into the hills
- Pass Riudecanyes Dam & Lake on hairpin rd
- End up at dead end, l’Argentera remote side of hill village
- Try another high road to Castell d’Escornalbou
- Stopped before entering Draculas Castle
- Returned to Cambrils, La Pineda, Salou
- 19:30 Arr Cambril Park
Planned Return Journey Friday & Saturday Est Times Total 1168 Miles
- [Day 1] 06:00 Dep Cambrils Park
- 09:45 Arr Andorra la Vella Half hour break
- 11:35 Passing Andorra Hospice Half hour break
- 13:15 Arr Toulouse Nth Half hour break
- 16:15 Arr Bordeaux Half hour break
- 18:00 Arr Ibis Niort (Twinned town) ------ 508 Miles Today
- [Day 2] 07:00 Dep Ibis Niort
- 08:30 Arr Nantes Half hour break
- 11:30 Passing St Malo Bay Half hour break
- 13:30 Arr Arromanches / Lion Sur Mer / Pegasus Bridge (D-Day Beaches)
- 1 hour break spread over above
- 18:00 Passing Abbevile
- 19:00 Arr Calais (for 21:00 sailing ??)
- 22:00 Dep Dover
- 23:30 Arr Westminster Half hour break
- 01:30 Arr Wellingborough (Sun) ----- 660 Miles Today
Excursions planned (1) Monserat Monestary and Barcelona
(2) Salou /Tarragona Area
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