Hey WUN

Are you planning TOG tour 2008?

I thought you might need this:

http://tinyurl.com/2zhyq5

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog

FOYRNB. I shall be aboard the majestic GTR14.

I have, however, decided to travel down to Dover the night before.

Not that I'm at all superstitious...

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

I'm glad we're not going to have to ride past you lying in the road
this time.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Andy Bonwick

I wouldn't do that to you again.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

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SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

Are you dossing on someone's floor or using a B&B/hotel?

I will need to be somewhere closer to the ferry the night before.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie

Hotel. Somebody on here recommended this: http://www.swingate.com so I
booked it.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

We can put you up in the Chateau, if you want.

Plenty of wine.

If you bring it.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

I'm sorted, ta. I'm staying in Dover so I can do my usual "rotting in me
pit" thing on Friday morning.

You'll be wanting SteveH for a decent drop.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

looks a bit better than the Travelodge at Ashford

 

True, true.

 

I'll see you in the bar then.

Its not the hilton, but its comfortable, does good grub & brekkies, and has
a decent enough bar.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, "Brownz (Mobile)"

It was you! I remember now. Cool.

Excellent. I shall buy you a beer.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

The Holiday Inn at Ashford is pretty good and has free wireless internet
(unless the neighbour has put a WEP/WPA key on his router recently).

 

Booked a double room via Activehotels.

A pint of ale please.

 

OK I know what BOSM and EOSM mean but what is the TOG Tour? Does it
refer to The Older Gentleman, where's it to, when and can anyone
(excepting cunts, of course) join?

 

can't you search google groups on Linux?
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/a7040b1dff5b4e46

You're too late for this one, unless you take over a cancellation

 

wouldn't have helped me, would it, as it's called the 'French Run' in
the link below?

OK so TOG Tour = The French Run, thanks, that's all I needed to know. As
'my' French port is S. Malo and you're planning to go North from Calais
I'd already decided it wasn't for me. It was the change of nomenclature
that confused me.

 

He may just still be lying there at the roadside....

 

Fittingly, the bloke's a truss-maker, and with a name like Mighell I
suppose he just had to be a welder.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"A scone and tea at half past three
Makes the day a little brighter
Keep your cakes and fancy tarts
And stick them up your shiter."

 

Ooh, tantrum.

The other articles in the thread referenced TOG Tour. I just quoted the OP
as it gives a sensible sized URL. I used TOG Tour as my search string. The
term has been used for many years.

The Western Channel routes suit me better. Portsmouth & Poole are a lot
closer than Kent. As TOG lives in Surrey he tends to use Dover-Calais. He
has used Newhaven and Portsmouth on one occasion each.

If I'm going on a solo trip I tend to use LDLines from Portsmouth to Le
Havre. The extra cost of the ferry trip is mostly offset by the additional
petrol used getting to Dover. My son living near Portsmouth is obviously a
big factor too.

The Brittany Ferries routes, inc. S Malo, would be good apart from one
thing: the cost. They aren't travelling much further than LDLines yet the
price differential is usually huge.

Of course, you could stop whinging and DFV a western port tour to the
Cotentin Peninsula or Brittany.