Dover–France–Belgium & Back In A Day
July 7, 2008 · Print This Article
Dover West Travel Lodge – Wednesday 8th Oct and its 07:00 and the alarm has just gone of, a very welcome sound (I don’t think so) anyway we decided to travel down from Reading the night before for our adventure to our destination of Brugge.
After a few phone calls and the tell tell signs where are you, we all finally met up at the Hoverspeed Terminal, 7 smarts and 1 roadster another chance to meet some smart owners including the winner of the Zaniest smart on the L2B (Miss Polkadot) well we have met before. [pay]
So what did every one else think, well obviously other people travelling and the Hoverspeed staff all come out to look at us have they never seen a smart before or are they envious of our machines and the fun we have in them.
Ferry crossing (£19 per car) took approximately 1 hr on the Seacat a little up and down but nothing to serious we managed to get some coffee, tea and breakfast rolls to fill the gaps Nigel (Whippet) was our guide, plan is to head towards Brugge we stopped off at Verne had a look around the square (interesting market) and then dived into one of the many restaurants for a coffee / pastry, whilst driving through the town we passed two other smarts one woman who waved and one guy who just look at us as if we were nutters.
Set off for Brugge unfortunately we encountered some indifferent weather but it wasn’t going to dampen our spirits hits the outskirts and passed a sign for a place called Wagglewater (might even rename my Smart) eventually parked up just outside the city and headed towards the cathedral, Brugge has many small roads or lanes all made from cobblestones and as you would expect many chocolate shops and lace shops, again the main square has many restaurants we which we duly made ourselves comfortable in and proceeded to look at the menu for lunch.
Sally (Sweat Pea) went for the Eels brave girl mikeythemikey’s wife (jess) went for the Flemish stew and a few of us went for the Muscles in various sources, well I have never seen a pot of muscles so big it was like the size of a large casserole pot mine were cooked in a cream source with vegetables yummy yummy, O2Cab had the same but cooked in garlic and you have never seen a mound of garlic like it, a couple of somewhat large beers to wash it all down and very large wines for the ladies…
After a relaxing lunch it was time to see the rest of Brugge we went off in our various directions and all came back with yes you’ve guessed it chocolate, the guys in the group I think wandered off and wandered back to another bar by now it was 17:45pm so time to set off to the Aucheon Supermarket not far from Calais to stock up on the Duty Free… a bit hairy coming out of Brugge even more hairy if Nigel wasn’t leading (well done whippet) made the Supermarket unfortunately not much time to do a serious shop, time was now pushing on as we were catching the last ferry back at 20:30, 3 of us mikeythemikey, sweat pea and myself ( zippiee) set off with Whippet and O2Cab catching us as we were entering the terminal but no Terry…where was he apparently he had just left the supermarket anyway I don’t know what speed he was doing but he made it (just) another 5 minutes and I think he would have had to of flown off the dock onto the Seacat because that was the only way he was going to get back.
Ferry crossing back was ok a few dicky tummies though no names mentioned Sweat Pea, and the discussion for the next trip hopefully in the spring if not sooner, so thanks must go to O2CAB for starting the post and Nigel for guiding us, thanks to all the others that came and we look forward to the next trip.
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By: Steve Fothergill – (aka zippieee) [/pay]
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