On the Road Again!

With the weather being the unpredictable factor this summer, I have been looking at further north.  How about the Baltic? Germany? Denmark? It's an area that neither of us have been to before.  I started to look at the area where the "Riddle of the Sands" was staged around the German East Frisian Islands. For years I have thought about a trip to Peenemunde , where the Germans designed and tested the V1. It's on the German Baltic coast. Then I thought about Denmark, or a toe dip into Poland?  I discounted Norway and Sweden!! I tried to get ChatGPT to come up with a sensible idea but it seemed unable to come up with a plan that wasn't a rush there and back. The basic text I gave it was quite specific regarding some places to include but still it planned a whistlestop tour.... So back to the drawing board? Claire would prefer France, Normandy and Brittany.  All that's set in stone are the Eurotunnel dates. As I mentioned in a previous AT26 post, it pr...

I am looking at France. We are away for around three weeks at the moment. I thought I could change the dates and it would only cost us £20 if done online.   WRONG! I went onto the Le Shuttle website.  To snip a week off the trip will cost the £20 amendment fee. Then despite all that they want £103 to go a week later! What bloody load of shysters this company are.  All I wanted to do was change the start date a week later. The return date would be the same and it would be before any UK school holidays. Part of the problem planning is that French campsites seem allergic to staying open after September 30th. Don't the French use their vans and caravans during the Autumn? They seem to spend a lot of time whinging when they have pay for aires. We could use Camping-Car Park aires, but as the name suggests, most are exactly that.  Short term stays rather than somewhere to "holiday". Sometimes it's nice to have a shower and use a proper toilet that a campsite affords. W...

We cancelled the trip that would have taken us to the Cathargo Malibu factory at Aulendorf mostly due to the possible weather and that we have a 16yo dog.  He was really not coping with the overly hot weather in June. No one expected to be 1300m above aea level and it being 36°C!! The email to Eurotunnel wasn't as productive as I had hoped.  We could change the date of travel but... the year you can book in is from when the ticket was bought not from when you are booked to travel. I booked the crossing on January 16th. So if we change the date we'd have to travel before then. It's not that great a deal. Hopefully, the weather will start to revert to normal and we can still go in September.  To cancel would lose us over £300. We will have to source breakdown cover for the van and travel insurance for us and of course, repatriation for Reggie. Where to go? Germany still? Or stay more local in France. I had thought of maybe Alcossebre again!!!! Let'...