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kimajy said:
There's the Plymouth to Santander route which departs just down the road from me. It takes blooming AGES and if you take a car it costs an absolute fortune. Going by road is fine if there are about 4 of you to share the costs but solo there is no way this is going to be an economic option. Plus it's quite a drive to Barca from Santander and then you have another ferry !
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I did it in 1999. it wasn't cheap but I really enjoyed that route! me and 3 other 20 somethings getting sloshed in the ferry disco as we crossed the bay of biscay. not as rough as legend has it. Nearly a whole day but you keep yourself busy.

I also love driving through France (see older threads)

2H76 said:
On Caledonian the air hostesses used to wear short(ish) tartan skirts, always a bit of a plus that :p
Dan Air were, er, interesting - felt like they were held together by sellotape. In fact they probably were...
But the best airline I have never flown with is Yorkshire Airlines
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Dan Air hahahaha - blast from the past! absolutely disgusting planes

my fave was the wonderfully-named SPANTAX which actually went bust whilst we were checking our bags in. that was a long night...
 
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I did it in 1999. it wasn't cheap but I really enjoyed that route! me and 3 other 20 somethings getting sloshed in the ferry disco as we crossed the bay of biscay. not as rough as legend has it. Nearly a whole day but you keep yourself busy.

I also love driving through France (see older threads)



Dan Air hahahaha - blast from the past! absolutely disgusting planes

my fave was the wonderfully-named SPANTAX which actually went bust whilst we were checking our bags in. that was a long night...
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My old man said the Dan-air planes were ex-Russian stock. Think he was pulling my leg, but I wouldn't have been surprised. Had one trip on a turbo-prop and all my insides were re-arranged, and my heart is where my liver should be, the liver is up by the lungs, the lungs separated and one ended up in Bulgaria.....
 
It's bleeding obvious by their silence that our government doesn't have a plan for our gradual release.
Therefore are we being kept indoors longer than necessary because they don't have a plan, and that keeping us in gives them longer to produce a plan rather than to save lives?
 
2H76 said:
It's bleeding obvious by their silence that our government doesn't have a plan for our gradual release.
Therefore are we being kept indoors longer than necessary because they don't have a plan, and that keeping us in gives them longer to produce a plan rather than to save lives?
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The speed that Whitehall does anything is glacial. They just can’t get over the old ways of putting the kettle on and having a navel gazing session. The only person in the media who doesn’t tolerate this abject nothingness is Piers Morgan. Don’t like the man, and he often goes too far, but with Starmer just finding his feet, he’s the only one holding the government to account - how mental is that?
 
SeoulSaint said:
The speed that Whitehall does anything is glacial. They just can’t get over the old ways of putting the kettle on and having a navel gazing session. The only person in the media who doesn’t tolerate this abject nothingness is Piers Morgan. Don’t like the man, and he often goes too far, but with Starmer just finding his feet, he’s the only one holding the government to account - how mental is that?
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Cant stand the man but keep finding myself almost clapping him
 
kimajy said:
There's the Plymouth to Santander route which departs just down the road from me. It takes blooming AGES and if you take a car it costs an absolute fortune. Going by road is fine if there are about 4 of you to share the costs but solo there is no way this is going to be an economic option. Plus it's quite a drive to Barca from Santander and then you have another ferry !
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Bloody hell, bit of a blast from the past for me too.

Was pretty much my first ever lads holiday. About 19 years ago this month. Hadn't long been out of basic training long and posted to my regiment.

Got told I was going to Northern Spain for 10 days to do some rock climbing in the Picos ?‍♂️

I had zero interest in rock climbing at the time and zero experience, but I quickly realised that nobody else I was going with did either. They were a bunch of grizzly Balkans war vets, and they terrified me as a teenage lad.

The ferry to Santander was awesome. One of the older lads had been told to take me under his wing and keep an eye on me.

Must of been some savage joke because he was an absolute hand grenade of a piss head from Blackpool. He got lifted on the boat by the crew. He tried to go up to the cabaret band at the disco and tell them how good they were etc, but tripped into the drum kit on the way up and the crew thought he was trying to kick off. They chased him all around the ship lol.

Our senior rank had to break him out of the Brig in the morning when we reached Santander, and pay the captain a small fee.

We only did a few days actual rock climbing. A group decision was made to fcuk it off and go on a bender in Bilbao for a few days.

Was a mega place to go, we met a bunch of Irish lads that were studying at the university. They guided us round all the good boozers. I think I know what they spent most of their time 'studying'.

One of the lads got locked in a whorehouse. Claims he 'innocently' walked in there for a 'pint'. They locked the door on him and rinsed his wallet. He got absolutely hounded by the rest of the lads for it.

He actually got married a few years later, and funnily enough none of us got invited to the wedding ?

Northern Spain is a great place ? The Picos are amazing.
 
SeoulSaint said:
The speed that Whitehall does anything is glacial. They just can’t get over the old ways of putting the kettle on and having a navel gazing session. The only person in the media who doesn’t tolerate this abject nothingness is Piers Morgan. Don’t like the man, and he often goes too far, but with Starmer just finding his feet, he’s the only one holding the government to account - how mental is that?
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Ch4 News - forever challenging the government/politicians and didn't help the Tories in. I refuse to watch that shit weasel Morgan. I don't care if some think he's redeemed himself.
 
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