Long drive dilema - music?
Long drive dilema - music?
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Marcellus

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7,204 posts

248 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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So tomorrow the holiday is over and we're setting off back to blightly from the cote d'azur.... A 9 hour drive.

Now, usually we entertain ourselves by listening to the French Cheesy radio stations on the way up, it's a sort of tradition.

But this year we'vre got a French pay as you go wifi dongle, the best deal when we last topped up was 96 hours unlimited for €9.

As we set of tomorrow we'll have about 48hours left.

So the dilema is do we connect the ipad to it and listen to UK radio stations on the drive or go with the traditional French Cheese?

jas xjr

11,309 posts

268 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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I am a big fan of radio 4 / radio 4 extra / radio five . Obviously depends on which programmes are on

PHmember

2,487 posts

200 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Go for the camembert.

Sharted

3,153 posts

172 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Nostalgi is the answer.

PHmember

2,487 posts

200 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Is that another French cheese?

Happy82

15,078 posts

198 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Go for NRJ to listen to Frenchmen trying to sound like Tim Westwood biggrin

andy-xr

13,204 posts

233 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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iPod on, use the wireless to check in at various odd sounding places

TheHeretic

73,668 posts

284 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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3 or 4 Pink Floyd songs should last that duration.

Tango13

10,050 posts

205 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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TheHeretic said:
3/4 of a Pink Floyd song should last that duration.
Fixed wink

br d

9,072 posts

255 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Tried something similar to this a couple of months ago coming up the Meridien from the Med to the Loire Valley, gave up after a while due to the intermittent, crappy coverage.

TheHeretic

73,668 posts

284 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Corin Denton does a bunch of podcasts, about an hour long each. Would be decent for a long drive.

4key

12,043 posts

177 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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br d said:
Tried something similar to this a couple of months ago coming up the Meridien from the Med to the Loire Valley, gave up after a while due to the intermittent, crappy coverage.
This. Find some podcasts to download rather than stream live.

Evangelion

8,593 posts

207 months

Monday 17th September 2012
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Do what I do on any drive longer than about 20 minutes - chuck a stack of CD's in the car* than you can lkisten to your own choice of music rather than some moronic DJ's.

(ETA - sorry I was writing for my own generation there - you younger folk would obviously programme an Ipod or whatever it is you do with these new fangled things.)

Marcellus

Original Poster:

7,204 posts

248 months

Monday 17th September 2012
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Evangelion said:
Do what I do on any drive longer than about 20 minutes - chuck a stack of CD's in the car* than you can lkisten to your own choice of music rather than some moronic DJ's.

(ETA - sorry I was writing for my own generation there - you younger folk would obviously programme an Ipod or whatever it is you do with these new fangled things.)
CDs??? you modern man... back in the day I remember 8tracks!!

Anyway, we tried streaming and it didn't work too well so went with La Fromage!!


Baryonyx

18,280 posts

188 months

Monday 17th September 2012
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Can you get Radio 4 in France? Always my favourite for long journeys. Or long days decorating. Or whatever.

jas xjr

11,309 posts

268 months

Tuesday 18th September 2012
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Baryonyx said:
Can you get Radio 4 in France? Always my favourite for long journeys. Or long days decorating. Or whatever.
I think you can get it on lw