FNRttC FNRttC to Newhaven, Dieppe and Paris 2011

[martint235]

Is one not allowed to climb mountains in Southern France next year @martint235 ?

That just needs saving for.

Persuading SWMBO to allow me anywhere near Dieppe will take a bit more persuasion....

 

[Davywalnuts]

I seeeeeee......

good luck

 

[martint235]

How big is the exclusion zone?

I imagine it's quite similar to the catchment area for Dieppe A&E

 

[Wobblers]

That just needs saving for.

Persuading SWMBO to allow me anywhere near Dieppe will take a bit more persuasion....

Would skipping the Dieppe bit and just going straight to the pub in Brighton be the safer option?

 

[martint235]

Would skipping the Dieppe bit and just going straight to the pub in Brighton be the safer option?

I am actually over 2 weeks into my latest attempt to give up booze so it may be moot by next year anyway

 

[Wobblers]

I am actually over 2 weeks into my latest attempt to give up booze so it may be moot by next year anyway

Good luck!

 

[StuartG]

Resurrecting this thread in the vain hope someone has the GPX of the DZ's favourite route from Dieppe to Gisors we took on this or subsequent FNRttC rides to Paris. Hoping to revisit it next week! Maybe @redfalo ?

 

[frank9755]

Resurrecting this thread in the vain hope someone has the GPX of the DZ's favourite route from Dieppe to Gisors we took on this or subsequent FNRttC rides to Paris. Hoping to revisit it next week! Maybe @redfalo ?

Sorry, Stuart - after I read this I went to look at the map. I don't have a record of the actual route that Simon took but I've ridden it so many times I could have given you the route from my head. But when I saw the map, I started daydreaming and completely forgot - and just remembered on seeing this again now. Hope you had a good ride to Gisors anyway.

PS Was it you guys who were waving at Gatwick yesterday when I went past, drafting an old car? It was a group of c.20 riders waiting by the airport just before the tunnel.

 

[StuartG]

Sorry, Stuart - after I read this I went to look at the map. I don't have a record of the actual route that Simon took but I've ridden it so many times I could have given you the route from my head. But when I saw the map, I started daydreaming and completely forgot - and just remembered on seeing this again now. Hope you had a good ride to Gisors anyway.

Yes. Report here: https://anerleybc.org/purley-paris-purley-nearly/ - sorry if that's a wordplay on places you probably hold so dear!

PS Was it you guys who were waving at Gatwick yesterday when I went past, drafting an old car? It was a group of c.20 riders waiting by the airport just before the tunnel.

Probably. We had set off at 8:15 from Brighton Road so it would have been around 9am. We then enjoyed the bargain food and drink from the scouts in Crawley before getting to Brighton before midday. I went through that same tunnel on the way back [by mistake].

 

[frank9755]

Thread resurrect:
I've just been for a bike ride in France and have 5 hours in Dieppe before my ferry home. So I've been round looking at the places I went to with @Aperitif and @Miranda, the last time I was let loose here, and reading up about Andy Schleck's Galibier attack, that we watched in one of the bars.
Good times!

EDIT: meant to ask @martint235 for tips on things to do in Dieppe...

 

[Mice]

Thank you @frank9755 for the reminder. It was my longest ride. Good memories indeed. Hope you had a good trip. M

My First 100 mile ride.

 

[matticus]

(Can't find a better place to ask this, so here goes
I've seen the email invite to join the ride JUST to Newhaven (16th June 2023?), the 1st leg of this year's Paris road-trip. my questions:
- is it a normal midnight departure? (with a view to a nice safety margin for the 11am Sat sailing?)
- I'd quite like to visit Belle France if I'm already in Newhaven! Would extra people on the ferry be in the way? (or breaching etiquette)
(probably just a semi-long weekend - be nice to test the logistics before I make the longer trip to PBP in August)

 

[Andrew Br]

(Can't find a better place to ask this, so here goes
I've seen the email invite to join the ride JUST to Newhaven (16th June 2023?), the 1st leg of this year's Paris road-trip. my questions:
- is it a normal midnight departure? (with a view to a nice safety margin for the 11am Sat sailing?)
- I'd quite like to visit Belle France if I'm already in Newhaven! Would extra people on the ferry be in the way? (or breaching etiquette)
(probably just a semi-long weekend - be nice to test the logistics before I make the longer trip to PBP in August)

It's a 23.00 departure.

 

[StuAff]

(Can't find a better place to ask this, so here goes
I've seen the email invite to join the ride JUST to Newhaven (16th June 2023?), the 1st leg of this year's Paris road-trip. my questions:
- is it a normal midnight departure? (with a view to a nice safety margin for the 11am Sat sailing?)
- I'd quite like to visit Belle France if I'm already in Newhaven! Would extra people on the ferry be in the way? (or breaching etiquette)
(probably just a semi-long weekend - be nice to test the logistics before I make the longer trip to PBP in August)

@rb58 @Trickedem I imagine would have no objections to you joining us on the ferry- and I doubt one more bike would bother DFDS.
EDIT: registration now open.

 

[matticus]

It's a 23.00 departure.

Thanks! (I've just seen that in the email, as it happens.)

This cafe at Newhaven better have some comfy chairs ...