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Purplemadboy

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Home from holiday (France)

Back home from our holiday in Brittany , we took the Portsmouth to st malo ferry . Towed the caravan for about a 1000 miles , total driving , with & without the caravan 2700 miles . Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

8th Oct 2015 4:47 pm

Dartman the one

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Seems a touch low in mileage, Hamilton to Portsmouth is about 450 miles my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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9th Oct 2015 7:42 am

paxman

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In August my fl2 covered near 3900 miles Northumberland to Nerja then back via Newhaven-Dieppe. We are going next Tuesday but the ferry this time will be via Postmouth - Santander.

9th Oct 2015 9:40 am

Purplemadboy

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Dartman the one wrote:
Seems a touch low in mileage, Hamilton to Portsmouth is about 450 miles

Your right, it is about 450 miles to Portsmouth from Hamilton , that's why I said towing was about 1000miles. Total driving 2700 miles. Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

9th Oct 2015 10:57 am

Purplemadboy

Member Since: 22 Jul 2014
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paxman wrote:
In August my fl2 covered near 3900 miles Northumberland to Nerja then back via Newhaven-Dieppe. We are going next Tuesday but the ferry this time will be via Postmouth - Santander.

We fancy going from Portsmouth to Bilbao next year, hope you have a good holiday.
Ps , I've just looked up Nerja , that's a hell of a drive

Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

9th Oct 2015 10:58 am

paxman

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Thank purplemadboy. Bilbao and Santanderjane next to each others.
Yes it is a long way from Northumberland but it's worth it. A nice town where mountains and sea met. Costa del Sol but East of Malaga so town and villages still retained their moorish past. We are going there for a couple of months to escape the cold.

9th Oct 2015 3:34 pm

Purplemadboy

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I saw in this months caravan club mag a couple of places near Malaga that do a "winter break" for a couple of months , I like the idea of that but I would miss my sky tv. I'm pretty sure I couldn't pick sky up with a Scottish dish that far south.
What site do you go to paxman ? Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

9th Oct 2015 4:09 pm

chicken george

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just park your van outside your house , stick some Narja posters over the windows and plonk a fan heater in there At work
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9th Oct 2015 4:22 pm

Dartman the one

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Sky can be received on a average dish, about 60cm, Sky is still on the Euro beam transponders, however BBC and ITV which are on the UK spot beam, even with a Sky decoder set top box will be unobtainable unless you are on a 1.2m diameter dish my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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9th Oct 2015 6:55 pm

paxman

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Purplemadboy wrote:
I saw in this months caravan club mag a couple of places near Malaga that do a "winter break" for a couple of months , I like the idea of that but I would miss my sky tv. I'm pretty sure I couldn't pick sky up with a Scottish dish that far south.
What site do you go to paxman ?

Hi Purplemadboy, no we have a little house near Nerja but there is a camp site call "Nerja Camping"

http://www.nerjacamping.com/about-us.php

which is near Maro, a little village, and less than 1Km to the beach. Last year I came to see this camping place to find out if we could camp and spoke to a few Brits there and they all likes the place. Regarding Sky TV I am not sure but I think people can get sky by "CS".

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10th Oct 2015 10:40 am

DrRpb

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What's Nerja like? Might visit next year. Any tips on rental cottages or flats?
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7th Nov 2015 2:22 pm

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Apparently Nerja has now recovered from the major traffic congestion of around a month ago, some say and angry purple vanist was to blame At work
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7th Nov 2015 3:14 pm

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