French Run 2007 last call

Whinging Courier says...

Why the **** would you need sat-nav to get from Cricklewood to Dieppe
and back? You were a motorcycle courier for how many years without a
sat-nav, what has changed that makes you need one now?

 

Going by Tinker Bell?

 

Whinging Courier wrote

ffs

and remember that france is just like you ride in town, mostly on the
other side of the road.

 

Lozzo wrote

Convert Syndrome innit.

 

steve auvache says...

Seems to me that as soon as you buy a sat-nav you have to donate your
brain to science immediately.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Lozzo belched forth and ejected the following:

That I don't have a problem with but getting from the terminal in France
to the hotel I do.

I'm not a courier any more and I don't speak French.

 

Lozzo wrote

You want to make sure you don't buy one then. It would be a bit like
having two insurance policies for the same risk and I am not sure it
would be allowed.

 

Eh? A sudden irrational desire to ride Guzzi semi-automatic tourers?

 

Whinging Courier wrote

I hadn't got a fucking clue where I was going so I had An Adventure and
followed SD who claimed he had. I figured that except for out and out
top speed he was never going to lose me. Mind you I hadn't seen him
filtering his 'wing through 15 miles of not quite standing traffic on
the M25 back then and wouldn't have been quite as confident if I had
done so.

 

I sent my renewal off a two weeks ago tomorrow and a last a week ago
yesterday I got a letter back from them whinging about the
professional photos I enclosed so they're pretty swift at the moment.
I assume a renewal is a lot swifter than a first application.

 

Pip Luscher wrote

Maybe. Certainly, behaviour like that can hardly be described as
rational can it?

 

Whinging Courier says...

Getting lost is half the fun of riding abroad.

You don't need to, that's the other half of the fun of riding abroad. If
you have to get straight to your destination and don't want to practise
your French then you may as well stay in UK.

 

Keep the sea on your right, and you can't miss it.

Top tip: don't follow Tim, or Batey.
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It's 194km (120miles) from Calais ferry terminal to the hotel in
Dieppe.

 

I had my renewal back within a week in September.

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""
Depart Dover-Calais Friday 04 May 2007 1005
Return Calais-Dover Sunday 06 May 2007 1550

Note: POSL has included an airline-style fuel surcharge of £6. This
may increase and if it does, you will be billed the extra!

PRICES (TICK WHAT APPLIES TO YOU)
One person, one bike, sharing room, £145
Two people, one bike, sharing room, £254
Two person, two bikes, sharing room, £290 (well, duh)
One person, one bike, single room supplement, £180
One person, one bike, no ferry, £109
One person, one bike, no ferry, single room supplement, £144

Non-refundable deposits of £40/head needed before Friday 15 December.

Balance must be paid by 28 February
""

 

BGN says...

<snip>

Thanks Nick.

I won't be able to make it anyway, that's the weekend my middle girl
turns 18, so I'll be wanting to celebrate that here with her.

 

BGN wrote

So it is two hundred miles in two or three sprints. Normal Sunday ride
out innit?

 

Um, more like 150.

 

Um, more like 150.[/QUOTE]

Down the N1 to Nouvion[1], turn right D940/925 - 109 miles.

[1] Lunch at Café Réné, anyone?
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