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Greetings, from Pompey UK
Feeling the winter blues here in Hampshire,

Been about 6 months since i'd gotten out and ridden, still yet to head abroad on two-wheels and reading travel books is making me restless.

I have an F4 Hornet600 in the garage, and the last bike I rode was an XJR 1300, lovely machine.

Well, as i'm sure alot of people have heard/read from similar dreamers; looking to just head off, don't know where or how long, but my soul needs it.
  • i'm practically broke,
  • clueless with offroad bikes,
  • don't even HAVE an offroad bike,
  • can't navigate in cities...
  • but strangely I aint to shabby with a paper map & compass in featureless wilderness.
Right now Portsmouth, long working hours and commuting on 4 wheels has become about as uplifting as a stroke. I need saving, slapping or euthanizing.

Yours respectfully, from a self pitying tw@t;

John.
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Hello mate, welcome to the HUBB from Italy!!!!
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hi john your not alone, plenty of us sit and dream of faraway places but cant/wont go for whatever reason. an adventure doesnt have to be a long way off though, youre in pompey it doesnt get much more adventurous than that! for a start get the bike out and go to work on that, save yourself a bit of time and feed your soul before a days mind numbing. pompey traffic sucks, in fact its getting sucky everywhere i live in fareham and work in gosport and its a bad joke, weve been forced to start a flexiworking scheme because so many are late in the mornings.
as for going away, just do it mate. a long weekend camping in france wont break the bank. at least you wont have far to go to get the ferry, LDlines to le havre is £70 return, we're going over for d-day week. 2yrs ago we toured the benelux camping, did 5 countries in one day and one of us was on a hornet. nice nippy bike, just stay off the autoroutes
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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.
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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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i always try and phone them up because the girls sound bloody gorgeous, especially the brittany ferries frenchies.
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 ???
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