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2016 European Road Trip To Monaco


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Hi everyone

 

Just to let you know that we have booked the dates for the 2016 road trip to Monaco.

 

We will be leaving on Friday, 10 June 2016 on le shuttle to Calais returning to Harwich via Hook of Holland on Friday, 17th June (arriving Saturday, 18th June at 6.30 am).

 

We will be driving down to Marseilles via Dijon on day 1/day 2.

 

Then we will travel via south france coastal route to Cap d ail (just outside Monaco) where we will stay for 3 nights so that we can explore Monaco, Nice, Cannes, St Tropez etc.

 

Then we will head up through the Swiss mountains via Lausanne/Luxembourg before coming back via the Hook of Holland on a Stena ferry.

 

So far we have myself and Karen, Ian (Badger) and Avril (Basbear) booked so please just us know if you are interested in joining us and we can let you have the detailed itinerary.

 

Approximate costs are as follows:

 

Le Shuttle crossing £76 per car

Stena Ferry crossing £75 per car plus a cabin around £45 plus evening meal etc

7 nights accommodation in Europe approx. £389 per person (based on 2 persons sharing) but this will depend on hotel and availability.

 

Would be great if we can get even more cars booked.

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  • 1 month later...

I would of loved to have gone on this, but my car is still in garage, havnt had my seats back from Mondo :sad: and ive got identical twins due june so need all the spare cash for prams/seats etc etc :sad: lol

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Have a great time Simon Karen avril and ian :biggrin:

drive safely and don't forget lots of pics for us all to see

 

look forward to hearing all about your travels at the next show

Ollie :wave:

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Hi Ollie and everyone we are back now having done over 2400 miles, and all the driving up and down the mountains caused Skippy's wheels nearly to come off down the Alps, we caught the loosened bolts just in time! ha!. I thought it was something terminal and that he would be coming home on a trailer, but it was sort of good that it was just his wheel bolts.

 

Was a great trip and thanks to Karen for navigating through some very challenging areas. We went round the Monaco circuit a couple of times which was absolutely brilliant.

 

On the way down to Monaco we visited the Millau Bridge, then Marseille, St Tropez, Cannes, Nice, and finally stopped in Monaco for a rest before setting off on our way back which we did going into Italy and up down the Alps eventually arriving in Gevene on the border of France and Switzerland. We went over the highest paved road in the alps which was something like 2800m high and we actaully had some snow/sleet whilst we were up there and it was freezing compared to the weather we had left in Monaco. Whilst in Monaco we had an apartment right opposite all the big yatchs and it was amazing to see how the other half live especially when one of them was sold for 49 million dollars! We went through 8 countries in the end and arrived home last Saturday. Apart from the drive back after the Alps we had the roofs down most of the time and it was brilliant weather. I will try and upload some piccies and video when I get a moment.

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