29 Sep 2012 8:51 PM:

 I love meat but I would not willingly eat Horse any more than I would eat a dog, some animals are best left off the menu due to the relationship they have with us.

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19 Nov 2011 11:28 AM:

I do this Journey every winte at the end of November for my 3 months winter break and thus far I have driven all the way from the UK via Portsmouth Caen, driven from my summer home in the Vendee, and taken the ferry from Portsmouth to Bilbao / Santander .

In pure economic terms the cheapest is Portsmouth Spain ferry, this year the cost is £563 return which includes a dog friendly cabin, the ferry docks at 1730 at Bilbao and I drive down to just outside Madrid (4.5 Hours) where I book into a hotel (50€); the next  day leaves me with another 4.5 Hours down to San Javier all in a total of 554 miles, I must add that the ferry fare is the Brittany Ferries discount rate for frequent traveler club members and for me  therfore £117 cheaper, membership of this is a no brainer for anybody who crossess to the continent more than once per year.

Driving from Caen down through France one can take either the route down through Northern Spain or the route through Southern Spain along the coast.

Its 1053 miles on the north route and 1153 miles via the south route, I discount the route from Calais which is around 1200 miles as those extra few miles are realy not worth the time and effort and basicly it adds a day to your traveling the only upside is that it saves a fair bit on the ferry fare.

There are nutters who do this trip either in one hit overnight or with one overnight stop, personaly any drive of over 5 Hours is more than enough for me so I split it into at least two overnight stops.

You may think that a pleasent troll down through France is a nice way of traveling but last year traveling form the Vendee, the snow and cold chased me all the way down very nearly to the Med, yes it is a pleasent trip in the summer and you may even want to linger a while en route but I dont recomend it in the winter.

 

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09 Nov 2009 5:07 PM:

Having just become a sky customer in the UK (I now use my sky box in France and Spain) I can answer the question on sky boxes and telephones, its very simple if you let sky connect your box to your landline phone then you are tied into a 12 month agreement to keep the phone line connected.

If you do as I did and told them that I had no landline their reply is " that’s ok it doesn’t matter but it will cost you £25 extra on the set up cost".

For those of you who don’t know what the phone link is for its so that you can use the interactive features i.e. book a box office movie, if I wanted a box office movie I would need to phone them via my mobile to book it which of course I am not stupid enough to do when abroad as it would alert them to the fact that I was viewing abroad,  the installing engineer told me that sky will stun your box if they find out you are viewing abroad.

Comments on the loss of some channels are valid, again the engineer told me that when abroad the satellite dish size and alignment become critical or the loss of some channels or no reception if its raining is a certainty.  His advice was;- a dish of at least 120 cm (look at the dishes around you as you may need bigger) and have it aligned by someone who knows what they are doing.

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