Lacking Enthusiasm...
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Sideways Tim said:
Every restaurant in the locale that are actually open are fully booked, so tonight we dine with the King!
Sacre bleu . Not even a tiny bistro to save you from this terrible fate? I speak as possibly the only person in the UK who has never been to a BK, mainly because my sole trip to MacDonalds in 1989 put me off US fast food for life . So I'd like to see some fresh asperges with a glass of Sancerre next please . ,
coppice said:
Sideways Tim said:
Every restaurant in the locale that are actually open are fully booked, so tonight we dine with the King!
Sacre bleu . Not even a tiny bistro to save you from this terrible fate? I speak as possibly the only person in the UK who has never been to a BK, mainly because my sole trip to MacDonalds in 1989 put me off US fast food for life . So I'd like to see some fresh asperges with a glass of Sancerre next please . ,
Turbobanana said:
From experience, France needs no more excuse than a fête to be universally fermé, so I feel the OP's pain (that's actual pain, not bread, obvs).
Off topic but I was recently in Philippines and they have a bakery chain who decided that it would be good to go a little bit French... The food there was delicious!
Back on topic - loving the trip, hope the weather clears for you.
Reading through this thread has made we reflect on trips we have made down the years, Some \i have done on my own just "to get away from it all" and many in the company of others.
The main difference was that then the GPS existed not, and we were totally reliant on large scale maps such as the A3 Michelin of France, (most helpful even today) and used it to plan back road routes. Even getting lost was at times great fun! A couple of pages back the circuit at Reims was mentioned, and these couple of photos are from 1991, long before it was renovated and truly superb just sitting up in the old timing tower or the stands and listening to the ghosts of Fangio and Hawthorn battling out the 1953 GP.
I don't tour any more, anno domini having caught up with me and in many instances left me alone on this planet, but that you are doing it now will provide a bucketful of memories to keep you warm in the winter months. My car has seen Europe from Sweden to Morocco, Croatia to Spain, and the car has rarely let me down. But now after forty years together I think that this will be our last year together and we shall probably part. I hope that this tour will be as meaningful and important in so many ways for you all, as mine have been.
The old timing tower and a few more. This was 1991.
The main difference was that then the GPS existed not, and we were totally reliant on large scale maps such as the A3 Michelin of France, (most helpful even today) and used it to plan back road routes. Even getting lost was at times great fun! A couple of pages back the circuit at Reims was mentioned, and these couple of photos are from 1991, long before it was renovated and truly superb just sitting up in the old timing tower or the stands and listening to the ghosts of Fangio and Hawthorn battling out the 1953 GP.
I don't tour any more, anno domini having caught up with me and in many instances left me alone on this planet, but that you are doing it now will provide a bucketful of memories to keep you warm in the winter months. My car has seen Europe from Sweden to Morocco, Croatia to Spain, and the car has rarely let me down. But now after forty years together I think that this will be our last year together and we shall probably part. I hope that this tour will be as meaningful and important in so many ways for you all, as mine have been.
The old timing tower and a few more. This was 1991.
Edited by lowdrag on Friday 3rd May 07:56
Thanks Lowdrag, as you say, memories are a wonderful thing and that’s what these trips are made of.
Reims holds a special place in my heart too, as does the Hotel de France in Chartre. That would have been our first overnight had I been organising. However I’m not, so onward and today upward!
Reims holds a special place in my heart too, as does the Hotel de France in Chartre. That would have been our first overnight had I been organising. However I’m not, so onward and today upward!
Edited by Sideways Tim on Friday 3rd May 08:10
Edited by Sideways Tim on Friday 3rd May 08:25
lowdrag said:
Reading through this thread has made we reflect on trips we have made down the years, Some \i have done on my own just "to get away from it all" and many in the company of others.
The main difference was that then the GPS existed not, and we were totally reliant on large scale maps such as the A3 Michelin of France, (most helpful even today) and used it to plan back road routes. Even getting lost was at times great fun! A couple of pages back the circuit at Reims was mentioned, and these couple of photos are from 1991, long before it was renovated and truly superb just sitting up in the old timing tower or the stands and listening to the ghosts of Fangio and Hawthorn battling out the 1953 GP.
I don't tour any more, anno domini having caught up with me and in many instances left me alone on this planet, but that you are doing it now will provide a bucketful of memories to keep you warm in the winter months. My car has seen Europe from Sweden to Morocco, Croatia to Spain, and the car has rarely let me down. But now after forty years together I think that this will be our last year together and we shall probably part. I hope that this tour will be as meaningful and important in so many ways for you all, as mine have been.
The old timing tower and a few more. This was 1991.
Great memories, lowdrag. If you need someone to continue CYN's travels around Europe, let me know: my 16 year old son has inherited my love of old cars and was fascinated when we stopped at Reims last year. He'd love to burble through France in an E-Type. Sadly my budget precludes any such extravagances.The main difference was that then the GPS existed not, and we were totally reliant on large scale maps such as the A3 Michelin of France, (most helpful even today) and used it to plan back road routes. Even getting lost was at times great fun! A couple of pages back the circuit at Reims was mentioned, and these couple of photos are from 1991, long before it was renovated and truly superb just sitting up in the old timing tower or the stands and listening to the ghosts of Fangio and Hawthorn battling out the 1953 GP.
I don't tour any more, anno domini having caught up with me and in many instances left me alone on this planet, but that you are doing it now will provide a bucketful of memories to keep you warm in the winter months. My car has seen Europe from Sweden to Morocco, Croatia to Spain, and the car has rarely let me down. But now after forty years together I think that this will be our last year together and we shall probably part. I hope that this tour will be as meaningful and important in so many ways for you all, as mine have been.
The old timing tower and a few more. This was 1991.
Edited by lowdrag on Friday 3rd May 07:56
Higher up in the thread I posted some pics of my tour through France in 2001 in the Saab. My girlfriend (now Mrs TB) and I spent a couple of days around Cannes and always admired the Hotel Martinez. We promised ourselves if we ever got rich we'd stay there. We're still not rich but managed to scrape together the funds to afford a weekend there after I recovered from a fractured femur in 2019. It was everything we hoped it would be, and a meal at the two Michelin Starred Restaurant La Palme d'Or capped the weekend perfectly.
Trips looks like it’s going along wonderfully 
Few years ago I trailered my old Jeep down to a beautiful coach house of a chateaux in 73 acres in between Le Mans and Tours. Did a most enjoyable 300ms or so driving around the area and indeed one lovely night out at the Hotel De France parked almost in the exact same spot as you did.
Stupidly I did not take any pics whilst there but did where we were staying, albeit it’s poor quality.
Locals loved the Jeep, steering wheel on the correct side as well, and it never missed a bit.
I must do it again, albeit after 100ms my arse gets VERY numb!
Few years ago I trailered my old Jeep down to a beautiful coach house of a chateaux in 73 acres in between Le Mans and Tours. Did a most enjoyable 300ms or so driving around the area and indeed one lovely night out at the Hotel De France parked almost in the exact same spot as you did.
Stupidly I did not take any pics whilst there but did where we were staying, albeit it’s poor quality.
Locals loved the Jeep, steering wheel on the correct side as well, and it never missed a bit.
I must do it again, albeit after 100ms my arse gets VERY numb!
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