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Posted by soton si on Tue Sep 11 08:57:16 2007, in response to Re: Phila Inquirer: Gas prices, global warming renewing interest in high-speed rail, posted by Rail Blue on Mon Sep 10 14:24:36 2007. "Funny how no-one ever decides they'll stay in a hotel in Kent..." I've done my Grandparent's house in Margate, though for non-day trips we tended to do the Portsmouth-St Malo overnight ferry, as we were on that side of France (this was before the A28, A29, etc). We did stay near Tours and do Dover-Calais - we got lost in Paris as the directions we were told to follow were out of date and the map we had was totally inadequate.Have stayed in a B&B overlooking the Western Docks, and also a hotel halfway between the Eastern and Western Docks. However these were for family things, rather than getting the ferry. As far as I could tell, very few people used this accommodation to get an early ferry - the B&B seemed to make most of it's money by being a 24 hour bar for dock workers as well, and has shut since I stayed there. I think the longest drives I have had in Europe were to Loch Lomond from Amersham (we stopped off overnight on the way back near Chester, as we were coming from Fort William) and Amersham to near the Lizard, Calais to Tours was also a long one. You hear of coach trips to the Alps and so on as well. |
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