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Hi folks,
We are moving to Spain to live shortly. Can anybody give us any advice or tips. We are thinking of travelling from Portsmouth to Bilbao by ferry and then driving from Bilbao to Murcia. Does anyone know how many miles that is and is it all motorway travel? We have also thought of shipping our car over by freight. Has anyone any experience of doing this?
Many Thanks
David and Linda
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Hi David & Linda
I actually did this journey last summer with my daughter. I did all the driving as I was scared of being a passenger with her in a right-hand drive car on the right side of the road! She was only 25 then. We did it in a day and I think we got to the Murcia area about 6pm. I seem to remember it's about 500 miles.
I think it is motorway all the way and I seem to remember that most of it was free! Driving round the new outer ring road of Madrid is really easy and relatively quiet, perhaps because the locals don't want to spend the 3€ on the toll so they take the older road. The only dodgy bit was getting out of Bilbao because it was rush hour.
Normally my partner and I take the Chunnel and drive all the way. It takes nearly three days but maybe we're a bit weird! We've seen some lovely scenery though and visited pl;aces that we would never have seen otherwise.
I would certainly do Portsmouth-Bilbao again but my daughter got sea-sick even though it wasn't rough!
Sally
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Hi Sally and Moresado,
Thanks very much for your help.It is much appreciated and it will help us a lot. By the way we are moving to La Torre Golf Resort near San Javier.
Regards,
David and Linda.
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"moresado" ? Perhaps morerosado should change names. 
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Don't do that Morerosado - never be sad. Mind you, if it'd been my choice of name I'd have been Moretinto...
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Hi Morerosado,
excellent idea then we can all spel it corectly, how about krisanthumum............?
Aunty Em says she will send me to bed if I post this............LOL
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Please don't change your name Morerosada cos I've only just got it right!!!
I wish !!!!
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Oh s**t !! I try soooooooooooooo hard and I fail soooooooooooooooo often !!
Sorry Morerosado 
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thanks for that Noreen,
we are flying into Alicante for the first time in late December (we usually fly to Murcia) and didnt know what to expect. We had been told that Alicante is a much busier airport so things take much longer ... mind you we got that info about 6th hand so didnt know how accurate it was!
p.s sorry for the thread drift ... this conversation started in the thread about cheap flights! Dont know how it ended up here ... does anyone know how to move posts?
This message was last edited by AuntieEm on 7/26/2007.
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Alicante is a busier airport BUT picking up the car is much quicker. All cars are on site and it's a toddle across the road to collect it. Unless you're with Hertz or Avis, there is never much of a queue and there are always lots of people processing the car hire. Plus there's so much more to choose from at Alicante in the way of shopping etc. It is, however, a bit of a nightmare in high summer and it resembles a busy UK airport with queues snaking all over the place. The Brits, of course, are their normal, charming selves when travelling abroad and will help out all they can. Huh! Just exactly when did we become a nation of boorish prats when on holiday? Nylon football shirts in 90 degrees heat and no deodorant using Anglo-Saxon euphemisms with the typical "If Johnny Foreigner can't speak English it's his bloody fault, just shout louder" attitude. And the beer guts sticking out of builders bum shorts and too short tops really makes my day. And that's just the women!!!
((Sorry, hard day at work today interviewing for a new GP. Young snot-nosed kids out of training who think 80 grand a year for a 3 day week with no out of hours is beneath them and asked if we'd pay their liability insurance for them. .........
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Alicante is a busier airport BUT picking up the car is much quicker. All cars are on site and it's a toddle across the road to collect it. Unless you're with Hertz or Avis, there is never much of a queue and there are always lots of people processing the car hire. Plus there's so much more to choose from at Alicante in the way of shopping etc. It is, however, a bit of a nightmare in high summer and it resembles a busy UK airport with queues snaking all over the place. The Brits, of course, are their normal, charming selves when travelling abroad and will help out all they can. Huh! Just exactly when did we become a nation of boorish prats when on holiday? Nylon football shirts in 90 degrees heat and no deodorant using Anglo-Saxon euphemisms with the typical "If Johnny Foreigner can't speak English it's his bloody fault, just shout louder" attitude. And the beer guts sticking out of builders bum shorts and too short tops really makes my day. And that's just the women!!!
((Sorry, hard day at work today interviewing for a new GP. Young snot-nosed kids out of training who think 80 grand a year for a 3 day week with no out of hours is beneath them and asked if we'd pay their liability insurance for them. .........
Nurse, another bottle please, this one's empty....
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hope you are not wee-ing in that bottle, bob
thanks for the info. We havent booked the car rental yet for that trip. Looks like we will be flying from Manchester (our LEAST favourite UK airport) either with BMIbaby or Monarch - Monarch are actually a few pounds cheaper when you add in BMIbaby's baggage charge.
Easyjet prices add £20 every hour at the moment, so they have priced themselves out .. although i was a bit wary to go with them anyway.
Just need to sort the car hire next and we are sorted.
(And Bob, if you think young GPs are a problem you ought to try rookie policemen and snooty pathologists ... what a combination and a REAL nightmare!)
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This is totally the wrong thread, but never mind......
easyJet pricing works on the basis of the more popular a particular flight, the more the price goes up. Everyone knows that. But, how many people know how they determine the popularity of a particular flight? Ask Justin how this works, but it seems that it's not, as I previously thought, based purely on how many seats have already been booked, but on how many enquiries are made at any given time. I tried booking a flight online yesterday, and had a problem with my card details. The website instructed me to "return to step 4 and try again", which I did, twice, encountering the same problem. On the third attempt, I noticed the price had gone up £20 - in the space of 5 minutes or so! I got p*ssed off to say the least, and had to go outside to cool off with a cold beer. I returned for a final (successful) attempt about 3 hours later, and lo and behold, the price had gone down again!
I haven't tried this yet, but maybe the best time to book is something like 4 in the morning, when nobody is enquiring?!
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Hi,
Just looking through threads.
I used a group called Bravo car hire for a car at Murcia and got a very good deal.
I know there are quite a few others, carjet etc....but these might be worth having a look at
Regards
Kevinh
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Kevin and Wendy
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Hi Kev
Do you know if they are at Alicante airport too?
thanks
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This message was last edited by kevh on 7/28/2007.
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Kevin and Wendy
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