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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 2, 2016 12:08:06 GMT
Jolly good. Sorry to hear you're so near Hull. ;-) ...says the man who lives near Reading. I'm far enough away. From Hull, Halifax, and Hell, good Lord deliver us. (A Dalesman's Litany). |
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Post by WDB on Sept 2, 2016 12:12:04 GMT
...the art of the possible. Must you? That's worn so thin now. I hear salesmen using it every day and all it seems to mean is 'what we can do'. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 12:13:43 GMT
Yup, we overnighted at Houlgate on the way from Calais to Vendee this summer. We discovered a fantastic little restaurant in Dives-Sur-Mer (the two towns are next door to each other) by accident a few years ago and wanted to revisit. chezlebougnat.fr/ Sigh. Love Normandy. Always un calvados comme digestif. Burp. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 12:14:51 GMT
Jolly good. Sorry to hear you're so near Hull. ;-) ...says the man who lives near Reading. I'm far enough away. From Hull, Halifax, and Hell, good Lord deliver us. (A Dalesman's Litany).IN Reading, I'll have you know.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 12:15:52 GMT
...the art of the possible. Must you? That's worn so thin now. I hear salesmen using it every day and all it seems to mean is 'what we can do'. Really? I do apologise.
I rarely speak to salesmen.
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 2, 2016 12:18:44 GMT
IN Reading, I'll have you know.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 12:19:56 GMT
You're IN Caversham Heights, NEAR Reading, surely. Considerably posher.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 12:21:01 GMT
p.s. in common with most of these buzz phrases, I've never been entirely clear what "the art of the possible" actually means.
Most of these phrases, when used, remind me of "The Emperor's New Clothes". It can be quite fun to ask the speaker what they actually mean. They very rarely know.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 14:28:35 GMT
MODERATION: Moved a bunch of Reading Pub related stuff, mostly to see if I could......
As for this thread's original purpose, I just re-looked at the Portsmouth-St Malo-Caen-Portsmouth trip for next summer. £710 round trip for a family of four with car, with a cabin both ways. Stripe me. I will probably take my chances with the tunnel. That was about £180 this year.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 14:30:28 GMT
£710 ?? Bloody hell!
It must be cheaper to go by train and rent a car.
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Post by WDB on Sept 2, 2016 14:51:10 GMT
Last time I paid BF with the airline points I'd earned from those trips to Chile. My new Europe-only job pays more cash but fewer perks - won't even make Bronze this year. So we slummed it on Le Shuttle - paid in Tesco vouchers - and put up with all that tedious driving.
It's especially tedious on the UK side, with the added frisson that it might all go horribly wrong as it did for Humph. But think of the fuel and tolls on the French side and if you're going anywhere west of the Massif Central it gets very expensive to start from Calais.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 15:01:05 GMT
£710 ?? Bloody hell! It must be cheaper to go by train and rent a car. Can't book so far in advance as next July yet, but later this month it would be £175 per person one way, London to Nantes. £300 for a car for two weeks. £1200. That's outside cool holidays. Plus bike rental that end, £200
Flights? Well, I looked this year and that was about £400 plus car hire again at about £300. Plus bike rental that end £200.
This is why Dover-Calais and the tunnel are so popular, and why Brittany Ferries can charge what they like for Portsmouth-Normandy routes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 15:04:10 GMT
Last time I paid BF with the airline points I'd earned from those trips to Chile. My new Europe-only job pays more cash but fewer perks - won't even make Bronze this year. So we slummed it on Le Shuttle - paid in Tesco vouchers - and put up with all that tedious driving. It's especially tedious on the UK side, with the added frisson that it might all go horribly wrong as it did for Humph. But think of the fuel and tolls on the French side and if you're going anywhere west of the Massif Central it gets very expensive to start from Calais. I get to Vendee mostly toll-free by taking the northern route. Fuel? A tank each way. Even add our night's accommodation in Normandy, and the inevitable meal out, it's still not coming anywhere near £710. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 15:15:41 GMT
Fair warning girls, I am about to try and move a post. Never done it before, so apologies in advance.....
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 2, 2016 15:20:01 GMT
....you have done a backup.........?
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