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    Alpine Tour 2024

    What car are you doing this in? I'm trying to work out the next road trip in my Gran Cabrio - we've done the Italian Lakes, Tuscany, Corsica and Spain and we've got a complete circumnavigation of the coast of Spain and Portugal booked starting in May this year (6 weeks for that one) Puglia is...
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    Viva Tea Party or Bust - September 2022

    For the tag, if your main bank account isn't supported, get yourself a Revolut account and use that for all overseas transactions. It's definitely ok with the Vinci tag, which works in France, Spain, Italy and Portugal - which is what I need for my next Euro trip - which is pretty much the...
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    Viva Tea Party or Bust - September 2022

    Having done the Portsmouth -> Santander route 3 times in the past 6 months, I can quite definitely say it's TOO LONG. On top of that, the amount of catering capacity on the boat is woefully inadequate for passenger capacity of the boat. Santander and Bilbao both now use identical boats. I've...
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    Winter Wheels and Tyres for a 156 / GTV - Free to a good home

    Right - I'm now back from Holiday and I need to get the garage tidied. Nayf has first dibs, but I'd like them collected in the next 4 weeks - I can be flexible as to when - Thanks.
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    Viva Tea Party or Bust - September 2022

    I'm just about to re-plan that bit of the trip. We went in August 2020 - and due to France (and others) being on the red list at the time, we headed straight for Germany and went Cologne -> Neuschwanstein -> Timmelsjoch -> Salo The Timmelsjoch was ok - but the road on the other side in Italy...
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    Viva Tea Party or Bust - September 2022

    Even though I'm not coming (because a - I don't know you lot and b - because I've already got something planned) - my preference, which I've developed over the past few years is to do the itinerary in reverse. Keep the nice long ferry journey for the way home. I'm about to try Harwich -> Hook of...
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    Viva Tea Party or Bust - September 2022

    You are completely correct - my mistake. My only excuse is that I've spent much more time looking into crossings going the other way. Also - from what I've been looking at - some of the crossings are pretty full already only reclining seats left. That is from Spain to UK around 20th September...
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    Viva Tea Party or Bust - September 2022

    I'm not sure this is correct. From Portsmouth there are 4 sailings / week - 2 to Santander and 2 to Bilbao. One of the Santander crossings is definitely 2 nights on the boat (I've just done it), but I don't think the other one is. Santander to Bilbao is about 1 hour, and a lot more pleasant...
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    Winter Wheels and Tyres for a 156 / GTV - Free to a good home

    They're not going anywhere - I'll be away from 10th - 24th March
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    Winter Wheels and Tyres for a 156 / GTV - Free to a good home

    I have some 16" GTV alloys fitted with Avon winter tyres. I was using them on my 156 GTA SW, so I know they definitely fit that. I don't know what else they would fit. The tyres are pretty good - I would say at least 6mm of tread remaining. Available to collect from the HP16 postcode area
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    Viva Tea Party or Bust - September 2022

    We will be driving Toulon to Barcelona (having got off an overnight ferry from Corsica at 8am) on Monday 19th September - it looks close - but can anyone confirm if I'm likely to see you lot heading in the opposite direction?