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Watch this space.
Subject to finding some hotel space etc. I will probably slot something together for this.
I am largely fecked as the roads seem to be closing around 05:00 AM on Saturday and they haven't made it too clear how the access roads will operate. It's not obvious that I will be able to get across The Highway at East Smithfield... trapped between there and Old Father Thames I'll be.
From the map it appears that the A11 will be open, running east but the Blackwall Tunnel will be shut. Tower Bridge and the other bridges west are also shut.... bugger it, that means somehow getting out to the QE2 crossing, very early.... stuff that.
So, outline plan....
(a) Leave work early on Friday 02 August say around 16:00. Go home, pack up, feck off.
(b) The traffic will probably be shite. Scuttle straight down to the Chunnel, for a train around 18:30 - Lose an hour - 19:30 frog time (why the feck we have to appease the Jocks I have no idea) Arrive France 20:15. Scuttle straight to St Omer, have a beer, go to bed.
(c) Next day. Get up early and depart. Ride somewhere a decent all day schlep away. We'll need to get our skates on all day.
(d) Arrive somewhere around 18:30. Beer, food, bed.
(e) Early start the next day, returning to Calais via a different route, not slouching around.
(f) There is no point in me getting back to Blighty before 18:00, so we may as well aim for an 18:30 frog time train.
The Ardennes / Luxembourg look favourite to me. We can do Vianden and back into two for sure and I have the routes already.
Hotels..... TBA
Number of bikes? Depends on room space. Preferably four, max five who don't mind cracking on a bit.....
Ping up interest here, please. First come etc. etc.
Richard
Watch this space.
Subject to finding some hotel space etc. I will probably slot something together for this.
I am largely fecked as the roads seem to be closing around 05:00 AM on Saturday and they haven't made it too clear how the access roads will operate. It's not obvious that I will be able to get across The Highway at East Smithfield... trapped between there and Old Father Thames I'll be.
From the map it appears that the A11 will be open, running east but the Blackwall Tunnel will be shut. Tower Bridge and the other bridges west are also shut.... bugger it, that means somehow getting out to the QE2 crossing, very early.... stuff that.
So, outline plan....
(a) Leave work early on Friday 02 August say around 16:00. Go home, pack up, feck off.
(b) The traffic will probably be shite. Scuttle straight down to the Chunnel, for a train around 18:30 - Lose an hour - 19:30 frog time (why the feck we have to appease the Jocks I have no idea) Arrive France 20:15. Scuttle straight to St Omer, have a beer, go to bed.
(c) Next day. Get up early and depart. Ride somewhere a decent all day schlep away. We'll need to get our skates on all day.
(d) Arrive somewhere around 18:30. Beer, food, bed.
(e) Early start the next day, returning to Calais via a different route, not slouching around.
(f) There is no point in me getting back to Blighty before 18:00, so we may as well aim for an 18:30 frog time train.
The Ardennes / Luxembourg look favourite to me. We can do Vianden and back into two for sure and I have the routes already.
Hotels..... TBA
Number of bikes? Depends on room space. Preferably four, max five who don't mind cracking on a bit.....
Ping up interest here, please. First come etc. etc.
Richard