ezydriver:
My mate also told me about an incident involving a boat called The Herald of the Free Enterprise. I don’t know if you’ve heard about it, but it was a ferry that capsized soon after leaving Zeebrugge back in the 1980s. My mate quickly nipped to the loo, and because of that he missed the boat by seconds. He said he should have been the last one on, but just missed it. Nah, I’m just messing with you lol.
You’ll give our resident fantasist “Tarmaceater” ideas, I’m surprised she hasn’t claimed this story, she’s been everywhere else………….or so she claims!
i drove through the Brixton riots…the milk had to be delivered
Tarmaceater:
After a police “ Incident “ around the Bordeaux ring road I had to make a run for it and made it to the ferry at Le Havre by using the D or Department roads that link small villages this was the same D roads to avoid the strikes .
Employed drivers would deliberately join the queue at the blockade as got paid but as an owner driver that wasn’t an option with a trailer waiting to be turned around at the port .
With less traffic on the back roads , I’m surprised not many tourists use them, using the busy roads at peak times especially when the Muslim community(From Northern Europe) travel vast distances without stopping (Transiting France) to get ferries from Southern Spain to North Africa with literally the kitchen sink on the car or van roof .
I regularly used the coast road from Cherbourg to Mont St Michael, but they put weight limits on that coast road ( To force you to use the toll motorway) and flower pots in the villages, remember St Leonard’s creperie , great omelette and crepes .
Please forensically exam this and dissect it like cutting up a rat in school biology class by re-quoting like a privileged Q.C prosecution lawyer.
Tell us more about transitting France using D roads.
The run to Le Mans maybe sometimes it’s a nice option but even using RN’s to Switzerland or Italy is slow enough especially with modern speed enforcement.
It’s constant aggro of waiting to overtake slow traffic and bleedin roundabouts and insufficient bypasses.
My default choice is arrive in Calais no earlier than 9pm then one hit overnight using the Belgian and German motorways.The former ironically being better and faster than the latter.
With the exception that I usually avoid the long motorway tunnel routes through Switzerland for safety and the scenery.
There’s nothing like a Swiss dawn and early morning in the Alps heading south east.
Tarmaceater:
After a police “ Incident “ around the Bordeaux ring road I had to make a run for it and made it to the ferry at Le Havre by using the D or Department roads that link small villages this was the same D roads to avoid the strikes .
Employed drivers would deliberately join the queue at the blockade as got paid but as an owner driver that wasn’t an option with a trailer waiting to be turned around at the port .
With less traffic on the back roads , I’m surprised not many tourists use them, using the busy roads at peak times especially when the Muslim community(From Northern Europe) travel vast distances without stopping (Transiting France) to get ferries from Southern Spain to North Africa with literally the kitchen sink on the car or van roof .
I regularly used the coast road from Cherbourg to Mont St Michael, but they put weight limits on that coast road ( To force you to use the toll motorway) and flower pots in the villages, remember St Leonard’s creperie , great omelette and crepes .
Please forensically exam this and dissect it like cutting up a rat in school biology class by re-quoting like a privileged Q.C prosecution lawyer.
So that old chestnut!
Once you’ve been sussed as not only a bullshiner and fantasist, make out you weren’t really serious.
You need to go to the chemist and get a fresh pack of tampax Tarmaceater.
I’ve been in this industry long enough to suss out the ■■■■■■■■■ and you’re top of the list, you and your alter ego.
Stick to your ■■■■ sites, you’ll be at home their with like minded females.
> I regularly used the coast road from Cherbourg to Mont St Michael, but they put weight limits on that coast road ( To force you to use the toll motorway)
Bit of info for you Tarmac, Cherbourg to le Mont St-Michel
N13 southbound towards Caen, no tolls
then take
N174 s/bound towards Vire, no tolls
then take A84 towards Avranches and Rennes, guess what “NO TOLLS”
Then onto the N175 towards St Malo and St Brieuc, again a National , so …
you’ve got it "NO TOLLS
Or you could take the scenic coast road, there are no weight limits on it DOH
I’ll let you play on your laptop to investigate Google Maps
Tarmaceater:
Via Coutances and Granville, good luck with that in an artic dodging the flower pots.
Oddly enough I used to go that way in the 80s.Far too early for the flower pots,I suspect.
I have vague memories of exiting the port and turning right at the bottom of the hill on the way out of town.
I could use my British mobile phone on this road presumably because it received a signal from the Channel Islands.
Tarmaceater:
Via Coutances and Granville, good luck with that in an artic dodging the flower pots.
Idiot !!!
Coutances, big abattoir that has drawbars delivering livestock and artics collecting meat produce.
Granville has a by-pass, you don’t need to go through the town centre.
I live here , best you try again with your idiotic comments
STUPID BOY !!
Tarmaceater:
Via Coutances and Granville, good luck with that in an artic dodging the flower pots.
Idiot !!!
Coutances, big abattoir that has drawbars delivering livestock and artics collecting meat produce.
Granville has a by-pass, you don’t need to go through the town centre.
I live here , best you try again with your idiotic comments
STUPID BOY !!
Your youth is getting the better of you here Pierrot !
Seems to me TarmacEater is talking about a time away before the building of the A84.
The two exits out of Cherbourg for trucks in late 80’s and into tje 90’s, were either turn right out of gate and head towards Les Pieux (which later had weight limits put on it) or past the gare and shopping centre and straight up the hill on the N13.
Avranches, Coutances, Haye des Puits, etc no by-passes then. And the A84 wasn’t open until 2003?
That’s the weight limit I was on about and that is the right time before motorways were built in the 90’s and don’t forget the Gendarmerie biker Pinocchio was knocking around at the top of Cherbourg hill with binoculars to spot the foreign drivers who always paid “Coffee money “ along with the Douanes in Cherbourg.
And the rumoured ginger bearded Scottish Gendarmerie biker on the Paris Periphique .
Tarmaceater:
An elderly lady fell off her mobility scooter and was lying in the road in front of an artic, the traffic in town is now gridlocked and not moving.
The lorry driver was decent enough to stop and assist the lady until the ambulance arrived and wanted to show his forward facing camera footage to the police in case they needed to see it but they didn’t show up .
A few family members of the lady turn up and one member said to the lady on the road : Should get the lorries off the road .
If wasn’t for the quick reaction from the lorry driver she would have been run over.
I hope it wasn’t one of the Mods off TN that fell of the scooter
