Calais Eurotunnel - Rest Area Ghyvelde x3.2
[F] Calais Eurotunnel - Rest Area Ghyvelde (video)
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Nice, it's so much quicker now than it was when I first started going over to Germany, and none of that lot was built - so if you did Dover-Calais rather than Zeebrugge or the Hook, it seemed like an eternity even getting to Belgium on the old N1, and then queueing for immigration control.....
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Re: [F] Calais Eurotunnel - Rest Area Ghyvelde (video)
It's amazing that it was as late as 1998 before the A16 was finished. I know the lack of decent roads up that way always influenced us going Newhaven-Dieppe when heading to the Loire valley; this was based on a bad experience in 1992 when we had to go from Calais to Dieppe because of ferry cancellations. No autoroutes whatsoever, and about 5-6 hours driving.
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Re: [F] Calais Eurotunnel - Rest Area Ghyvelde (video)
I'm doing Newhaven-Dieppe this summer.Bryn666 wrote:It's amazing that it was as late as 1998 before the A16 was finished. I know the lack of decent roads up that way always influenced us going Newhaven-Dieppe when heading to the Loire valley; this was based on a bad experience in 1992 when we had to go from Calais to Dieppe because of ferry cancellations. No autoroutes whatsoever, and about 5-6 hours driving.
It'll be an opportunity to complete the A22 and A26 on the UK side, and the A13, A6 and (returning) A4 on the French side.
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Re: [F] Calais Eurotunnel - Rest Area Ghyvelde (video)
It was finished by December 1999 - driving back to the UK for Christmas, I decided to calibrate my speedo against the Belgian kilometre markers. The road was very quiet and I maintained exactly 120 km/h (as per my dual-unit speedo) and took a few seconds over five minutes to cover 10 km. As a result I deduced that my speedo was reading about 2% over the true speed.Bryn666 wrote:It's amazing that it was as late as 1998 before the A16 was finished. I know the lack of decent roads up that way always influenced us going Newhaven-Dieppe when heading to the Loire valley; this was based on a bad experience in 1992 when we had to go from Calais to Dieppe because of ferry cancellations. No autoroutes whatsoever, and about 5-6 hours driving.