2012 Le Mans classic travel arrangements

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2012 Le Mans classic travel arrangements

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For those of you going to the Le Mans classic later this year I thought I would start a thread to capture people's plans for getting there. I haven't booked anything yet but would be good to rendevous en route if the opportunity presents itself.

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Due to the Tour de France date clash (I read somewhere traffic in the Le Mans area could be heavy and disrupted as a result - could well be wrong) Morag and I are going to head over to the Netherlands for a couple of days beforehand in the trusty 'Stang, hopefully take in the Louwman Museum in the Hague and visit a family war grave relating to an exploding Lanc before taking a couple of days to head down through France. We'll also have a few days touring France on the way home, so this post is probably not a lot of help, on further thoughts! Sorry...
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Hi Dave,

We have not really thought about it yet except to say that we have to be at the Chateau on the Thursday arriving at about tea time.

We normally go through the tunnel so for me the options are
1) Stay in Kent on Weds night, go early through the tunnel and drive straight to Le Mans
2) Go to France on Weds lunchtime and split the journey at a place we know south of Rouen on Weds night and saunter down to Le Mans on Thursday

or

When I get chance I am going to look at ferry crossings to see if there is anything useful there.

cheers


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The TDF will be going from Rouen to St. Quentin on the Thursday, so away from the area. Actually I will have them coming against me when I am driving to France from Belgium, but for sure not on the "Autoroute". Good to see from this thread who will be coming!
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We (Malcolm Dobson and I) are travelling on the Eurotunnel shuttle as follows:

Departure (local time) Short Stay Saver Fare | Folkestone to Calais | Thursday 05 July 2012
Check-in closes 07:50 Departure time 08:20 Arrival time 09:55


Returning (local time) Short Stay Saver Fare | Calais to Folkestone | Monday 09 July 2012
Check-in closes 17:50 Departure time 18:20 Arrival time 17:55

I believe Barry Jones is joining us at the Folkestone terrminal. Others are also welcome if you are travelling this route.
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Here is the list of those attending LMC so far 8)

Driver Navigator Car
Dave Woodward Nikki Woodward 289
Byron Bevan Valarie Bevan MGA
Neil Varney Louise Varney TR4
Ian Millar Colvin Leslie 289
Roger King Morag King Mustang
Karl Kiefer Ingeborg Kiefer 289 FIA
David Large Alan Parsons 289
Barry Jones 289 FIA
Allan Stanton Alan Miller SAAB Turbo Convertible
Martin Young Shaun Bateman 289
Colin Newbold Paul Daniels 289
John Coward Malcolm Dobson 289LM
Bill Telford 289
Paul Bloore David Beck 427
Dale Bowman David Franks Cobra Daytona Coupe

I'm sending you all an email tonight

Carry on :)
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MOST excellent turn out.

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John Coward wrote:We (Malcolm Dobson and I) are travelling on the Eurotunnel shuttle as follows:

Departure (local time) Short Stay Saver Fare | Folkestone to Calais | Thursday 05 July 2012
Check-in closes 07:50 Departure time 08:20 Arrival time 09:55


Returning (local time) Short Stay Saver Fare | Calais to Folkestone | Monday 09 July 2012
Check-in closes 17:50 Departure time 18:20 Arrival time 17:55

I believe Barry Jones is joining us at the Folkestone terrminal. Others are also welcome if you are travelling this route.

John,

I think this matches our planning pretty well - we may join up with you.

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Now booked onto the Normandie Express 'fast cat' from Portsmouth to Cherbourg. Looked closely at the timings to/from Folkstone et al and the South East departures just don't work for us. Navigating around London to head back up to Manchester on the Monday evening is just too long a slog.

Therefore, our plans are now:

Outbound: Portsmouth -> Cherbourg
Departure - Thur 5 Jul @ 09:00
Arrival - Thur 5 Jul @ 13:00

Return: Cherbourg -> Portsmouth
Departure - Mon 9 Jul @ 12:15
Arrival - Mon 9 Jul @ 14:15

Total cost £223.00

If this suits anybody else, will be pleased to hear from you.

Cheers.

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Hi to the 289 Squadren, I will be departing good old Blighty as Johns wingman, meeting at euro tunnel check-in 7.50 am.
Trying to sort out if the car needs war paint! 8)
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