Trip to France

colinm said:
I use google maps on my phone when in the car, when offline it doesn't work correctly, by that I mean even with downloaded maps it will often refuse to display speed limits, I've also never managed to get the overspeed sound alert working, in the van I use a TomTom, this displays the speed limit and pings at me if it thinks I'm speeding, the same with my old Windowphone maps.
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I use a Garmin Camper 780 and have the speed alert for 1 mph over the authorised speed limit. Unfortunately, on many of the smaller roads in rural Spain, where the national speed limit of 90kph applies, Garmin was convinced that the speed limit was 60kph, so the alarm was a cross between the old Fire Engine EmergencyBell and the local Campanologist Society Practice Night ... :ROFLMAO:

Steve
 
This was great fun the other day.


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I forgot Liz bought me a Victorinox Huntsman Red when we were in Svitzerlund for me birthday on the 2nd of June.

Allen Millyard rat your heart out 😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂
 
TJBi said:
If you end up close to (or in) Andorra, watch out for mobile phone roaming fees if you get connected to an Andorran network.
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Simon was telling me the same earlier, so flight mode on and use CoPilot to navigate in and out. Not sure why we're going tbh, just another country I suppose off the bucket list 😁😁
 
We liked Andorra a couple of years back, went for tour de france cycle stage .came in from el pas de la casa on the main road and drove over the tops . Great scenery and I think some Wilding park ups on the tops . Stopped in Canillo at a cheap camp site ,very nice . Andorra city a bit of a dump in our opinion but could not be avoided. Stopped by customs for a search on leaving but when they saw the state of our garage they declined.
 
@jacquigem, that's really interesting, thank you.

Many years ago (maybe 40?) Mr 001 and I visited Puigcerda.

We were sitting on a café terrace having a coffee and we heard a helicopter nearby. A little while later, a silver haired man wearing an impeccably tailored camel coat and sunglasses walked down the street, flanked by several much bigger men (bodyguards) in black suits and sunglasses, very pointedly monitoring the people all around.

We still drive that route, it's one of our favourites, and wonder every time just who it was that we saw.
 
Jo001 said:
@jacquigem, that's really interesting, thank you.

Many years ago (maybe 40?) Mr 001 and I visited Puigcerda.

We were sitting on a café terrace having a coffee and we heard a helicopter nearby. A little while later, a silver haired man wearing an impeccably tailored camel coat and sunglasses walked down the street, flanked by several much bigger men (bodyguards) in black suits and sunglasses, very pointedly monitoring the people all around.

We still drive that route, it's one of our favourites, and wonder every time just who it was that we saw.
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I cant get one minutes peace when i go out. 😂
 
Andorra can do without our dosh, heading to that place in last post, on our way we saw a fort and decided to see if was worth looking, so I drove in and noticed a lot of soldiers in full kit, armed to the teeth, liz panicked a bit when she saw all the rifles pointing in our direction, I didnt tell her the yellow ends meant they were training, an officer let us carry on in to turn round.
 
Not far from the
Pudsey Bear said:
Stopped for the night high up.

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Bloody hell Kev! Were there no industrial estates up there then? 🤣 Bad luck.

That's more like it. Wait till you get the Grande Pyrenees. Has Liz conquered her fear of flying then? If so there is a cracking cable car in Cauterets. Goes from near the town centre right up to the ski slopes. There may still be skiing going on up there.
 
We went over to Espana, drove around for a while then came upon a sign saying 2.8m height limit ahead I looked at the only alternative and it was was way too high so turned back the way we came, might try again from.Lourdes.
 
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