Dave, what's your secret for getting Portsmouth-Le Havre return for £70. I was quoted £180 return for July. :confused1:

That's too much so they've lost my business. But it wasn't the worst by any means. Portsmouth-Santander for 3 bikes and 1 cabin £1426 (£475 each) I can fly to the USA for that kind of money. They're living in cloud cuckoo land.

The cheapest return I found was the tunnel at £60.

WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?
literally not a month ago i phoned LDlines up (because the website wont let you book groups of riders. 1 bike and 4 people is fine though, derr...) to travel in first week of june, £82 each for 4x bikes, 4x blokes and 4 berth cabin. the £70 deal is the standard 1 bloke 1 bike reclining seat or kip on the floor deal theyve been doing for years.
in october a mate and i went to santander with brittany ferries, booked the whole holiday through them on the phone and paid £305ea for 2 bikes, 2 blokes, 4berth cabin both ways and 3 nights 3* hotel accomodation.
dont know what youre doing wrong or im doing right, i always try and phone them up because the girls sound bloody gorgeous, especially the brittany ferries frenchies.

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yep, just had a play on LDlines website, a single biker with reclining chair is still £70return, even in july

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You're a very bad man.

We have a supplier who sounds sooooooo luverly. They are local but I never want to meet her because it would spoil the picture I have in my head. Me bad too ???

Hello people,

I find prices over this side of Europe disheartening in general. Walking through the city centre watching everyone rush about for their January 'bargain', it doesn't look cheap to me.

I'm living like a student to save enough money to get an overland worthy bike and sod-off. De-junking, de-cluttering, selling or binning all that accummulated crap and trinkets to lift this anchor holding me to England.

Those niceties like an HD-TV, Xbox (with obscenely expensive games), It doesn't interest me anymore, I want rid of it. Travel's the fire burning inside me now.

Travel and live light used to be my ethos, i've allowed myself to stop and gather moss. I want to be able to say everything I own fills two panniers and a bergen.

Heading across to France for a weekend sounds good Dave, but in my current mindset I'd have a nagging feeling that i'd still have to return. Return to the Daily-Grind. It's like being attached to Portsmouth by a bungee-cord, a bloody short bungee cord.

Right now though, i'll settle for a pint and a steak 'n' ale pie.

Yes i'm a whinging w_nker. The whinging w_nker that wishes to find out that there's more to life than stagnating in the same place, going back and forth from work to home over the same ground, like a nutjob.

That's my pennies worth, ah and relax.

John.

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a BERGEN?!? They're massive!

It's a 3/4 bergen with the side pockets removed. Still big, but I'll take it as part of the luggage just incase something on the bike goes phut or wang, I can shoulder it and head off on foot to find fixers.

Well, that'd be the plan...

John.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Thats the good thing about the older italian bikes, no need to find a fixer anywhere! Although the entire pannier full of tools and spares does mean your ability to 'travel light' is a bit compromised.....