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places to visit => uk and eire => Topic started by: RichK on June 08, 2011, 03:15:54 pm
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Off Euro cragging in a fortnight :dance1: and our channel crossing is very early morning. Anyone know a quiet van doss near the Tunnel (Folkestone). :icon_beerchug:
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there's a services which is huge and regularly has big campers in it advertised on the signs "welcoming early arrivals" etc.
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Just turn up early and get on an earlier tunnel! Every year when we go skiing we book the cheap early morning tickets and turn up about 3 the afternoon before - have always got an earlier tunnel offered by the automatic check in. the longest we have had to wait is 4 hours (was still 3 hours before our scheduled departure time though.)
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or just leave really early/late evening and avoid all the traffic around Londinium.. of which there has always been more than expected...
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google maps plan a time.. minus an hour.. book it and go... it just works!!
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Depending on where you're coming from Medway services is good for a doss.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/5813348484_1c13bd911d_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/34726894@N00/5813348484/)
Its a bit of a drive in the morning mind and you might be accosted by an odd bloke in an Ushanka. You may also be picked up by a firmly creationist truck driver who gives you a lift because its "the feast of St Patrick". Eddie I think his name was.
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Stick this into google maps:
Crete Road West, Folkestone to eurotunnel
A quiet lane good for parking a van up with a nice view out over the channel(tunnel)
I grew up there, so my doss spot en route to europe is the parents house, pretty convenient, but the only time i see them just about!
Have a good trip!
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Stick this into google maps:
Crete Road West, Folkestone to eurotunnel
A quiet lane good for parking a van up with a nice view out over the channel(tunnel)
:great:
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Stick this into google maps:
Crete Road West, Folkestone to eurotunnel
A quiet lane good for parking a van up with a nice view out over the channel(tunnel)
I grew up there, so my doss spot en route to europe is the parents house, pretty convenient, but the only time i see them just about!
Have a good trip!
The doss was perfect :beer2: Duly wad'd