Recent content by 35linnet

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    worried about calais

    Hope you get over there ok !
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    Stop over before returning via St Malo

    Pitches very tight at domanie la huchet, took me 30 mins to get off our pitch and had literally mm to spare, between the trees, goodness knows how I managed it, its close to the ferry port though being a couple of miles from St Malo centre
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    Sites nr calais ?

    Chateau de gandspette is our favourite, 25mins from calais, its near St Omer, handy for the supermarkets, there is a small carefour and a netto nearby too. Also next to a war musem set in the forest. Its in a village called eperleques
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    worried about calais

    I hope all that are travelling to France this year have a trouble free time, the strikes are what has done it for me, I guess it will be resolved soon but I am too impatient, we will still have a great time in Cornwall, my 3 girls are at an age where all they want is sand and water, the wife is...
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    worried about calais

    Well since I started this thread a few days before the strikes things seem to have gotten out of hand, I lost my bottle and cancelled the lot, lost about £300 in site deposits dfds ferries etc, Cornwall this year for me, will be a novelty 2 weeks in England , not done that in a while , the...
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    worried about calais

    Thanks all, decided to cancel calais return, now sailing from Dieppe which works out roughly the same price once fuel/tolls taken out from where we are staying in Normandy. I guess I should stop fretting but I really dident want to expose my little kids to anything like I have seen in the news
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    worried about calais

    I am hoping all will be ok, but things appear to be getting worse, not sure if I should cancel return journey and sail from Dunkirk
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    worried about calais

    Sailing to/from Calais this year, having seen all the horror stories of immigrants blocking the truckers etc, I am concerned that it may not be safe to travel that route. Is it just the trucks that have the trouble? Has anybody returned recently and witnessed anything? I have visions of them...