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Post by Alanović on Aug 11, 2016 14:50:19 GMT
Well lets face it, they aint going to knick your cars are they. Oh I don't know, I hear E Class estates are quite the thing for nicking and taking to Africa these days.
Not usually been a problem for me, granted, but I did have an Orion 1.6L nicked once. Nottingham though. I suppose an Orion was posh there.
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Post by WDB on Aug 11, 2016 14:52:13 GMT
We've never worried about the bikes at our overnight stops. Often these are city-centre hotels with underground car parks - as in Reims last weekend - but we've used public surface parking in other places - like St Malo last year, and Clermont-Ferrand in 2013 - without problems. We use a cable lock (sometimes two) in addition to the carrier's integral locks, and if we're at all unsure, we reverse the whole assembly up against a wall or hedge. Anyone really determined could nick them, no doubt, but it's hard to see it being worth their while.
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Post by Humph on Aug 11, 2016 17:06:28 GMT
Near StJ AV, Orouet. Same forest ! Traffic still bad here btw. Been in the car since 04.00 today. Proper job needed urgently 🙁
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Post by Alanović on Aug 12, 2016 8:29:48 GMT
Yes, very near StJ. Our residence de choix is right by the forest path to Orouet, it's called Le Victoria. Thoroughly recommended. We're even considering buying one of the pavilions. If you're there next year at the same time as us, we shall have to meet pour une verre de vin.
Re: jobs, I sit chained to a desk 5 days a week, I often dream of a job which gets me out on the open road. But yes, 04.00 is a bit much in anyone's language. I did that for a couple of years as a shift worker, it was grim.
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Post by Humph on Aug 12, 2016 8:50:05 GMT
Sounds like a plan. We must have been very close to you and maybe even saw each other without knowing !
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Post by Alanović on Aug 12, 2016 9:01:56 GMT
May be so. We were there 9-23 July. We usually seem to end up there over Bastille Day, they do a 20-minute spectacular firework display on the beach. It's murder driving out of StJ after that, so we cycle in and out - the children really like cycling through the forest to get home in the dark. We've found a little creperie which has a great position for watching the fireworks, glass of calvados in hand. Probably miss that next year though as school doesn't break up early enough.
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Post by Humph on Aug 14, 2016 9:19:06 GMT
Just looked again at your dates. My mistake, we arrived just as you were leaving. So we wouldn't have seen you in any event ( unless it was in opposite directions on the motorway ! )
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Post by bromptonaut on Sept 5, 2016 10:30:49 GMT
Vendee clearly place to go for C4P/GoF this year. Mrs B and I were at Avrilee (a little inland from Les Sables d'Olonne) for a week from 16 Aug. Much later than usual due to academia demanding her presence in Oxford on 27/7 then my colleagues' holiday blocking leave calendar at work. Nice site picked more or less randomly from the Flower Campings website. Pretty basic but clean sanitairres etc and good bar/bread. Occupants 90% French, mostly families with pre-teen kids. Noisy but very well behaved.
Bikes travel inside the Berlingo but didn't actually see much use. Should have got them out on the Ile de Re but somehow it didn't happen.
Second week in Douarnenez on another Flower site. Just relaxing and doing coastal walks etc.
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Post by bobby on Sept 5, 2016 18:56:25 GMT
Vendee clearly place to go for C4P/GoF this year. Mrs B and I were at Avrilee (a little inland from Les Sables d'Olonne) for a week from 16 Aug. Much later than usual due to academia demanding her presence in Oxford on 27/7 then my colleagues' holiday blocking leave calendar at work. Nice site picked more or less randomly from the Flower Campings website. Pretty basic but clean sanitairres etc and good bar/bread. Occupants 90% French, mostly families with pre-teen kids. Noisy but very well behaved. Bikes travel inside the Berlingo but didn't actually see much use. Should have got them out on the Ile de Re but somehow it didn't happen. Second week in Douarnenez on another Flower site. Just relaxing and doing coastal walks etc. My dad went in paddling in the sea at Les Sables in early 80s. Had his prescription glasses on with the clip on sunglasses on them. A wave hit him and the glasses disappeared. Very unfortunate as he was practically blind without them, he was the only driver and the car was parked in the town. And he had towed the caravan all the way from Lanarkshire and had never thought of carrying a spare pair of glasses!
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 5, 2016 22:02:04 GMT
Vendee clearly place to go for C4P/GoF this year. Mrs B and I were at Avrilee (a little inland from Les Sables d'Olonne) for a week from 16 Aug. Much later than usual due to academia demanding her presence in Oxford on 27/7 then my colleagues' holiday blocking leave calendar at work. Nice site picked more or less randomly from the Flower Campings website. Pretty basic but clean sanitairres etc and good bar/bread. Occupants 90% French, mostly families with pre-teen kids. Noisy but very well behaved. Bikes travel inside the Berlingo but didn't actually see much use. Should have got them out on the Ile de Re but somehow it didn't happen. Second week in Douarnenez on another Flower site. Just relaxing and doing coastal walks etc. My dad went in paddling in the sea at Les Sables in early 80s. Had his prescription glasses on with the clip on sunglasses on them. A wave hit him and the glasses disappeared. Very unfortunate as he was practically blind without them, he was the only driver and the car was parked in the town. And he had towed the caravan all the way from Lanarkshire and had never thought of carrying a spare pair of glasses! Same thing happened to me not that far down the coast. Gert big wave knocked me over, and my prescription ray bans disappeared. Not called the Côte Sauvage for nothing!
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Post by Humph on Sept 5, 2016 23:10:38 GMT
I lost my board shorts in the waves near there. Ruddy things got torn off by the surf. Damn cold it was too so it wasn't really possible to walk back up the beach with any aplomb...
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