Caravanning in France 2024 Irish Ferries Oscar Wild Club Class #caravanning
Right. Good afternoon everyone. Yes, it is the afternoon 5th of September 2024. Cole here from Kaz and Cole’s Caravan and Adventures. Uh continuing our trip back up north from our holiday in the south of France uh in Pork Remora. Polygon Marina Resort. Yeah, definite change in the weather. 32° down there up until about halfway. Um, and today, as you can probably see from the gray skies, it is gray, uh, bit drizzly, and it’s been raining and it’s been really dark on the way up as well. Um, so we’re in the San Quentin area. We’ve only got 100 miles to go until we get to Guinea, uh, which is going to be our overnight stop before we get the ferry back to Calala tomorrow. So, there we are. Uh, cup of tea, 100 mile to go and I’ll update you a bit later on when we get to our destination for this evening. Bye for now. Afternoon guys. Cole here from Cars and Cole’s Caravan Adventures. As you know, uh we’ve got here for to our final campsite on this holiday uh down to the south of France, Sanrope Portra area. Uh we’ve been here before. It’s camping Laben Ais and it’s in Guinea. It’s about half an hour drive from drive from Calala. Uh short walk into the town to uh bars and a couple of restaurants and what have you. Uh I don’t think we’ll be going there tonight. Uh we’ve just drove 313 miles. took us 9 hours, had three stops as we we always have a leisurely drive. Uh when we’ve got the time. Um and we’re going to have a couple of drinks now. Uh and then maybe we’re going to pop down to the bar which opens at 6:00. Uh so we just w walk through the site. Um we were here last year on our way out to France uh to the south of France last year and on the way back as well. You get a lovely welcome. Um it’s well laid out. A lot of the pictures are grass. Um, and they have they’ve had some very heavy rain uh in the north. On me last little clip earlier, I did say it was a bit gray. Uh, it’s slightly warmer and it’s stopped raining up in the north now. Um, but the grass is very wet. Um, so I did notice that they’re actually putting heavy motor homes on some of the hard standings that they’ve got here. Uh, this is the drive up towards reception. got plenty here to do uh for the kids if you’ve got if you’ve got kids with you. Uh there’s a swimming pool, playground. Um there’s a restaurant and a bar. Restaurant opens and the bar opens at 6:00 uh tonight. So, we might uh we’re going to have a a little drink in the caravan now. Uh bit of a relax after the drive and then we’ll have a little wander over to the bar. lady in the the lad in the reception speak perfect English. I’ve said before it’s a bit embarrassing, isn’t it? Yeah, my French is very limited. I think they might prefer to speak English actually rather than trying to work it out. Um, okay. So, I’m just going to walk around to where the caravan is and maybe show you a couple more clips, you know, when we go down to the bar. As I say, we were here last year. So, I’ve got some footage from last year. So, I’ll put the link link in for that one. So, this is just part of the campsite. This is quite a nice campsite. It’s really good access to Cala. So, only half an hour. So our ferry is uh 20 to 10 tomorrow. That’s in the morning that is. And we I’m just walking towards the van now. What’s your And that’s our setup just for the night. Yeah, our own hitch slightly. It was quite level side to side. I just had to go up a bit to get it up. So, we’ll go I’ll go and have a little drink now. Bit of a chill out. and uh get back to you a little bit later when we go down the bar. That’s it guys. All hooked up and ready to go. Chat Lab Bisen in Guinea. That’s where we are. Um so off we go. Cala, half an hour drive and we’ll see you there. Morning again, guys. Yeah, we’ve um arrived at Calala now. Quite a straightforward check in. We were quite early as we’ve got about an hour wait now before we board on Irish feries. I’ve got club class priority boarding. Hopefully uh that’ll be up and running and we’ll get a bit of breakfast on board. Yeah. So about an hour to wait before we start boarding. Uh as you can see um it’s still a bit gray. Uh staying in Cambridge tonight on the carav caravan and camping club or is it the camping and caravanning club site? It’s forecast the weather’s forecast to be a little bit better uh better across the channel. So we’ll uh see what happens. So we might be able to get a trip into Cambridge tonight. And I’m going to get back in the car now because it’s actually just started throwing it down. So bye for now. Yeah, the situation is we were booked on the I live finish here uh ferry for 20 to 10 and we were just sitting there and the guy came running across and he said that the ship here is pretty quiet. So this is the Oscar Wild. So he said you can get on there. So we’re setting off an hour earlier. So we should be at Cambridge a little bit earlier. Although you can’t book into the site till 1:00 anyway. That should get if the weather’s nice, then that should give us more time uh to get the bus down into Cambridge and have a look around this evening. Yeah, just a little bit of information on how we ended up booking Irish F. Now, we did have we did use them last year. I’ve got um a Tesco score card. Uh so I use some of me Tesco vouchers. Um so the ferry was uh about £200. um got £40 knocked off um as a result of using me vouchers. Um so then we booked the club lounge which was £20. So the whole uh trip cost £183. Uh so not too bad. Um first time I’ve actually used the u vouchers uh for traveling. So I might save them up and actually do the same again. Uh Tescos are in partnership with Irish F. So you can use your vouchers with them. It doubles the value of your voucher to save on the ferry. You can only use up to £80. You can only get a discount up to 80. So hopeully hopefully that bit of information sort of helps you if you haven’t thought about using your Tesco vouchers before. If you have got Tesco vouchers that is see the car alarms are going off already. Right back inside now cuz it’s starting to rain up up on the decks. So this is what Irish fairies club class has got to offer. So crossons, chocolate pan, panor on some muffins, some biscuits, fruit, shortbread, flat jacks, plenty of cereals. Uh, some rolls there. Some juices. Not proper food juices. Plenty of meats. No, there’s not much meat left cuz the M is she’s a bit of a carnivore and she’s eating all that ham and salami thing. Can’t stand this stuff. Yogurts. coffee machines around the corner. Plenty of choices of teas and what have you. Yeah. The only thing I would say about the coffee is everything’s coming out like an Americano, even if you pressed flat white or cappuccino. So, after a couple of tries, I just went for the tea. And the um the muffins are a little bit stale as well. Yeah, just about crossed the channel now. About 20 minutes into Dover. Quite handy getting on an earlier ferry because we’re going to be an hour early. Getting up to the camping and caravaning club site in Cambridge. Pleasant experience in the lounge in the club lounge. It’s worth the 20. That’s£10 each. might have made 24 actually. Just entering the port of do now. Can’t video for too long though cuz the we’ve got to go down to the car to be ready to get off. Quick turn around and all that. Right, I’ve just had the shout to go down to the car. So, say say bye for now. Speak again a bit later. Maybe when we get up near the campsite camping and caravaning club site Cambridge. Bye for now. [Music] Woo! Heat. Heat. Heat. 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Last stop and final part of our epic caravanning trip to the South of France. Thanks for watching and don’t forget to subscribe to keep up with our caravan adventures.
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