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Darrell · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject: Darrell - Next update 3

We accepted an offer on our house today.It's only been on the market for 6 days.
So far so good.
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Maureen · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject:

Oh Darrell that's good news and so quick, hope all goes well with the sale.

Foxy · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject:

The council will go mad when they find out.

Maureen · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject:

They won't see his white van for dust..........................

Darrell · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

Steel blue actually....with lots of ladders!
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Maureen · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject:

Nah Darrell, I would have definitely said you were a 'white van man' Laughing

Darrell · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject:

Nah definatley steel blue. Good old Transit.
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Darrell · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:

We have done a little deal with a local tourist office and we have rented out 10 studios for the whole season.This deal covers our rent for our first season.Even better news is that the people are (hopefully 6ft blonde women) scandinavians !!. Claire has a 19 year old cousin and she and her friend want to come out for the summer to try and work.They are from the Wirral so they shouldn't be too hard to spot.
We should complete on the house in the first week of Jan and we have ditched our plans to buy a Shogun and we are taking out our Merc instead.It should be fun driving it around as it is silver.If you see it don't flag it down,you will know when you see it cos it's a right hand drive with H9 POO on the plate!!
I have got my interview with Olympic holidays on Thursday.
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Foxy · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject:

I heard that! Mad

sundance · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject:

Any further thoughts on your route, Darrell. Sounds like you should go the German/Austria way. We paid total 36 euros tolls Venice- Amsterdam, 20 italy and 16 Brenner pass+Austria sticker. Did 800k second day from Munich in the camper..only me driving, but plenty of stops. Would probably take you about 2 hours!!!!.

Darrell · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject:

Hi Jon,
probably gonna do London to Ancona.Spend the first night in Mulhouse,second night in Modena.Onto the ferry for a 22 hour crossing to Patras then up to Volos and onto the ferry to Sk.
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mo&balconies · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:

hi darrell - just to let you know, we're doing brum to france, then thru switzerland, down coast of italy to bari, then ferry to igoumenitsa, drive across to volos, then ferry to HOME!! Shorter ferry crossing, hope they've got plenty of sick bags, not that good on boats.

Darrell · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject:

I thought about the shorter ferry crossing and going to Igoumenista but i understand the road from there to Volos is quite mountainous and I didn't fancy it with a trailer on the car.Like you,i don't do boats but my thoughts were plenty of sea-sick tablets,a few beers followed by a crack at the world record for sleeping on a ferry!! Surely these big ferries have some sort of anti-rolling device?
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Elle · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject:

The ferries from Italy are lovely, smooth.. The Ionian is another very calm sea like the Aegean, though in winter it can get big - though nothing like the crossing we had once across from Stranraer to Belfast... on a night a cargo ship was lost at sea.... force 6 or something like that.

We've done the Bari and Brindisi Ferries several times and I am not a boat/sea person... I was fine. Also did the crossing from Athens to Lesbos, a long overnighter which also was fine and that was a lumbering old hull of a boat.

Ginger (tea, or even the candies) are good for seasickness and there are elastic bands on the market now that you put on your wrist over specific acupressure points that keep seasickness at bay. Worked for me, crossing from L.A. to the Channel Islands (the Pacific ocean is AWFUL) to see dolphins and whales...
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