Trip to France

[mark61]

Dartford crossing is free before 6am, and we wanted to catch the 8am ferry to Dunkirk but somehow it didn't get booked.

£179 now instead of £105

£179 is a bargain to get away from us lot.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Not this one Rob.

 

[barryd]

Dartford crossing is free before 6am, and we wanted to catch the 8am ferry to Dunkirk but somehow it didn't get booked.

£179 now instead of £105

Months and months of planning, 274 pages on this thread and you forgot to book the ferry!

 

[Robmac]

Not this one Rob.

This one Kev?

 

[jeffmossy]

We are currently parked up at Graveline, today is market day so Lorraine is happy, Roxys pet passport sorted at the local vets, Saturday evening we are on the shuttle then overnight on farthing common car park Folkestone, before our slow journey to Hereford for the May bank Holiday rally. Safe journey everyone

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Months and months of planning, 274 pages on this thread and you forgot to book the ferry!

I did all I had to do, I was up and ready yesterday, and we should have been gone by 10ish yesterday morning.

BUT.....

 

[barryd]

I did all I had to do, I was up and ready yesterday, and we should have been gone by 10ish yesterday morning.

BUT.....

Have you got passports? Just checking.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

K'off

One black and one red.

 

[barryd]

K'off

One black and one red.
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That don't look like no ferry port to me. Are you reenacting the Battle of Britain or summat?

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Battle of Britain memorial place.

We've parked up about 30 mins from the ferry, been driving around my old courier haunts from the 80s, I used to deliver into SA Labels into Folkstone and Dover docks, then pick up a return load from B&W speakers in Lansing, to be finished in Bradford.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

France in the background.

 

[barryd]

What time is the ferry and where is your first stop off planned?

 

[Pudsey Bear]

8am I am told un Dunkirk, so we'll have a look around there the head south doing Pegasus bridge and Normandy on the way back up, so we don't over do the WW2 stuff.

 

[barryd]

8am I am told un Dunkirk, so we'll have a look around there the head south doing Pegasus bridge and Normandy on the way back up, so we don't over do the WW2 stuff.

Well don't make the same mistake I did on our very first trip to France. Pegasus Bridge was our very first stop over. I programmed in the lat and long to a spot I had researched before we left but I put degrees East instead of West. Luckily they are quite near so I was only about 40 miles out when I realised.

Of course if you are heading to Normandy you would have been better off going to Calais as its 20 miles further south but at least you will be in France

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Dunkirk we thought would be better if you're going to Dunkirk.

 

[barryd]

Dunkirk we thought would be better if you're going to Dunkirk.

I honestly don't think I have ever looked round it. We sometimes used to spend the night here just outside if we were heading east the next day towards Germany or the Alps. Bergues is like a village on the outskirts. Quite nice from memory. The parking gets busy though with lots of vans coming from or going to the ferry. Shed loads of space though.

Bergues

Details for Bergues a Overnight parking - no services Bergues, Nord [59], Hauts-de-France, France, 59380

www.searchforsites.co.uk

 

[zzr1400tim]

8am I am told un Dunkirk, so we'll have a look around there the head south doing Pegasus bridge and Normandy on the way back up, so we don't over do the WW2 stuff.

if you can spare the time please visit the commonwealth war cemetery in Dunkirk (and sign the book) as well as the excellent museum (memorial du souvenir) dedicated to operation Dynamo
(my paternal grandad was evacuated from the Bray Dunes beach in 1940)

 

[TJBi]

Well don't make the same mistake I did on our very first trip to France. Pegasus Bridge was our very first stop over. I programmed in the lat and long to a spot I had researched before we left but I put degrees East instead of West. Luckily they are quite near so I was only about 40 miles out when I realised.

Of course if you are heading to Normandy you would have been better off going to Calais as its 20 miles further south but at least you will be in France

Heading to Normandy, better crossing to Ouistreham or Cherbourg as they're actually in Normandy. But plenty of places to see between Dunkerque and Normandy.

 

[TJBi]

I honestly don't think I have ever looked round it. We sometimes used to spend the night here just outside if we were heading east the next day towards Germany or the Alps. Bergues is like a village on the outskirts. Quite nice from memory. The parking gets busy though with lots of vans coming from or going to the ferry. Shed loads of space though.

Bergues

Details for Bergues a Overnight parking - no services Bergues, Nord [59], Hauts-de-France, France, 59380

www.searchforsites.co.uk

I spent the occasional night in Dunkerque, including a few in the marina close to the centre. Well worth a visit.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

We'll visit as many places as we can my fitness or lack will determine how many.