Post by ronturner on Oct 23, 2015 9:55:19 GMT 1
I think my views on the time wasting and so called security checks at airports are well known, so its nice to live on the continent where the business of getting away for a holiday is little simpler. Its relatively easy to get in the '172 and pop down to Spain in a couple of hours, but even this has its limitations. Sometimes we just fill up the car and when some friends said "Come down to Valencia to see us", it was a "no brainer".
Just completed a 10 day round trip covering 2600 Km at a total fuel cost of 125€ and tolls of about 90€. The weather was perfect all the time, even warm enough to be on the beach in shirt sleeves, and the scenery from the mountains of the Pyrenees, the plains and plateau of central Spain were spectacular. The driving on mostly uncrowded roads was easy. I lost count of how many tunnels we passed through.
Taking in Velhia, a Ski resort in the Pyrenees, Salou, Valencia, Toledo, Segovia, and the chic resort of San Sebastian it was certainly varied with a veritable feast of cathedrals, old towns, museums, castles, bars and restaurants, a great time was had. Eating and drinking is very affordable unless you go "top end" where it becomes on a par with France.
My last uplift of diesel at a supermarket near San Sebastian was 0.88€ litre ( about 65p) and it would have been less if I had realised I had a discount voucher from the shop I just visited. (We enjoyed a marvellous Rioja at a cellar bar the night before, and were lucky enough to find it on sale in the bodega...... We swept it off the shelves. You cannot do that on a Ryanair flight and whereas the '172 will take it, try getting it through security at any of the commercial airports..) The run home from San Sebastian to the Vendéé, just north of la Rochelle, took 5 hours including a brief stop.
Just completed a 10 day round trip covering 2600 Km at a total fuel cost of 125€ and tolls of about 90€. The weather was perfect all the time, even warm enough to be on the beach in shirt sleeves, and the scenery from the mountains of the Pyrenees, the plains and plateau of central Spain were spectacular. The driving on mostly uncrowded roads was easy. I lost count of how many tunnels we passed through.
Taking in Velhia, a Ski resort in the Pyrenees, Salou, Valencia, Toledo, Segovia, and the chic resort of San Sebastian it was certainly varied with a veritable feast of cathedrals, old towns, museums, castles, bars and restaurants, a great time was had. Eating and drinking is very affordable unless you go "top end" where it becomes on a par with France.
My last uplift of diesel at a supermarket near San Sebastian was 0.88€ litre ( about 65p) and it would have been less if I had realised I had a discount voucher from the shop I just visited. (We enjoyed a marvellous Rioja at a cellar bar the night before, and were lucky enough to find it on sale in the bodega...... We swept it off the shelves. You cannot do that on a Ryanair flight and whereas the '172 will take it, try getting it through security at any of the commercial airports..) The run home from San Sebastian to the Vendéé, just north of la Rochelle, took 5 hours including a brief stop.