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Lucky barn find?!
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Last thing you want, is a load of weird Landy types turning up and drawling over the beastMany thanks!
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Which way are you going?
Just saying as we are in the Tarn in France in case you feel like popping in.
Careful as we WILL pop in!Which way are you going?
Just saying as we are in the Tarn in France in case you feel like popping in.
We usually go, Eurotunnel - Poitiers- Burgos- Madrid - Otívar (Home). Poitiers hotel shutdown during COVID so need an alternative route/stopover now.
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OK, so you cross France north East to south west?Careful as we WILL pop in!
Poitiers hotel shutdown during COVID so need an alternative route/stopover now.
Well we are far nearer to Perpignan, being 45 mins north of Carcassonne. So nowhere near your route. Sadly.
But if you ever vary youur route...
I will now have to see where Otivar is, never heard of it but then I only know the Costa Brava and that not too much!
OK, so 5 1/4 hrs south of Madrid.
that should be
Otívar is smack bang in the middle of the South Coast in Costa Tropical. Just North of the town of Almuñécar. We try and do three 7 hour days driving. Tempted to take the ferry from Portsmouth this year to save the drive.OK, so you cross France north East to south west?
Well we are far nearer to Perpignan, being 45 mins north of Carcassonne. So nowhere near your route. Sadly.
But if you ever vary youur route...
I will now have to see where Otivar is, never heard of it but then I only know the Costa Brava and that not too much!
OK, so 5 1/4 hrs south of Madrid.
that should be
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Can quite understand it, but the ferry to Spain is still flipping expensive.
Ah now wondering if you mean the ferry to Spain, or just the overnight to Caen.
We do the drive from Caen/Ouistreham to our place overnight in one fell swoop. 24 hours door to door, home to home. (We live just north of Bournemouth). So this timing includes the 45 miles to Pompey and the ferry.
But Caen to South west France would be a lot shorter than Calais to the same place.
We were looking at Portsmouth - Santander but it’s really expensive and a long trip. The kids can’t do more than 7 hours driving in a day. We’ll just end up driving the whole way as usual. We’d fly but to rent a seven seater for 5 weeks is €3k!!
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I find that driving overnight allows everyone else to sleep, but then kidz being kidz.....
I sleep in a cabin on the way over even though it is daylight outside. Just make sure we get an inside cabin.
As your barnfind is a 5 seater why would you need a 7 seater as a hire car? Just wondering...
We’ve got 4 kids and a dog. Eldest is staying in Uk house sitting for us this year. If we put one kid in the back (3rd row) with the dog then more room in middle and no (less) arguments. I’m putting third row seats in before we go. Our last Disco had 7 seats. This one was too good not to buy at £2k.I find that driving overnight allows everyone else to sleep, but then kidz being kidz.....
I sleep in a cabin on the way over even though it is daylight outside. Just make sure we get an inside cabin.
As your barnfind is a 5 seater why would you need a 7 seater as a hire car? Just wondering...
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In that case why not just put one seat in the very back?
You are aware that 7 seaters had air supension of course as you already had one. But one kid and a dog won't matter on that front, don't suppose. But seats are amazingly heavy!
As we travel with 3 dogs, fortunately not huge ones, Cockers, we put them in the middle row of seats together with a cool box and a few other bits and pieces, then the boot is pretty full.
But we trailer a car as well. Which is also full of tat!
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Hi, have you sorted out any seats yet ? I pretty sure I've got two from my son's old D2 kicking about (free to collect),let me know.
No I haven’t yet managed to get any. Thats a really kind offer, thanks. Where exactly are you?
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Hi, Nr. Royston Herts.
You’re a couple of hours away from me then, no problem. What colour are the seats?
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That's a good question all I can tell you is they're dark coloured I'll endeavour to look & take pictures tomorrow.
I'm not saying this is the case here but, I've known of 'em having several vehicles standing on their land, they will not sell 'em
cheap, they'd rather let 'em sit there and rust away.
I keep all his plumbing, heating and gas working so we’ve become friends over the years. He’s genuinely looked after me with this one. Landrover specialist came down and serviced it as well as changed a few bits over like the injector loom and rocker gasket. He said it’s in exceptional condition with mega low mileage. It passed MOT with no advisories and has full LR service history.I'm not saying this is the case here but, I've known of 'em having several vehicles standing on their land, they will not sell 'em
cheap, they'd rather let 'em sit there and rust away.
All looking good so far.
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Talking of farmers not letting stuff go, this has sadly been in the same spot for over 20 yrs ! I did talk to someone a couple of years ago who does odd jobs on the farm & he said he thinks the farmer has had offers but either not enough or just wants it to rot away completely 
such a shame (not sure of year, pic taken today).
such a shame (not sure of year, pic taken today).Attachments
Outrageous mindset with some of them!Talking of farmers not letting stuff go, this has sadly been in the same spot for over 20 yrs ! I did talk to someone a couple of years ago who does odd jobs on the farm & he said he thinks the farmer has had offers but either not enough or just wants it to rot away completely
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