From: doetnietcomputeren on 6 May 2010 06:14 On 2010-05-06 12:09:04 +0200, Spete <i_am_some_body(a)hotmail.com> said: > > > On 2010-05-05 07:06:02 +0200, The Older Gentleman said: > > <snip> > >> I've considered Belgium and Holland in the past, the difficulty being >> the distance from home in the time available. Plus the factor that, >> while 200 miles in the rain is a PITA, 400 miles is worse. > > Thanks for this, saves me a DFV stint. > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> > <html> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> > <title></title> > <meta name="Generator" content="Cocoa HTML Writer"> > <meta name="CocoaVersion" content="1038.29"> > <style type="text/css"> > p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: > 12.0px Helvetica} > p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: > 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px} > p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: > 12.0px Helvetica; color: #1d0099; min-height: 14.0px} > p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #1d0099} > p.p5 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: > #000000; min-height: 14.0px} > p.p6 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000} > </style> > </head> > <body> > <p class="p1">On 2010-05-05 07:06:02 +0200, The Older Gentleman said:</p> > <p class="p2"><br></p> > <p class="p1"><snip></p> > <p class="p3"><br></p> > <p class="p4">I've considered Belgium and Holland in the past, the > difficulty being</p> > <p class="p4">the distance from home in the time available. Plus the > factor that,</p> > <p class="p4">while 200 miles in the rain is a PITA, 400 miles is worse.</p> > <p class="p5"><br></p> > <p class="p6">Thanks for this, saves me a DFV stint.</p> > </body> > </html> But doesn't save you a YTC. -- Dnc
From: doetnietcomputeren on 6 May 2010 06:15 On 2010-05-06 12:11:18 +0200, Spete <i_am_some_body(a)hotmail.com> said: >>>>>> As WUN said, it's got to be a "French" run. I'll check out some interesting >>>>>> places if TOG hands over the reins to Colin. >>>>> I've considered Belgium and Holland in the past, the difficulty being >>>>> the distance from home in the time available. Plus the factor that, >>>>> while 200 miles in the rain is a PITA, 400 miles is worse. >>>> >>>> Not least to mention that NL doesn't have much in the way of good >> >>>> riding. It's a pretty enough country, but it mostly looks the same all >>>> >> over. They're also speeding Nazi's with long memories. >>>> >>>> I suspect BE isn't much different until you get to the hilly bits that >>>> >> border France. >>> >>> A few years back we were on the French / Belgian border. You could tell >>> > the instant you crossed into Belgique. The roads went to absolute > >>> ratshit. >> >> I think I was on that run. >> >> Oh and *ding*. > > Were you? This was the run, where we made the local bar(tender's) > holiday. He was about to shut when some loudmouthed bikers came in... Sedan run right? Been there twice. -- Dnc
From: CT on 6 May 2010 06:21 doetnietcomputeren wrote: > Sedan run right? Been there twice. Neuville-en-Ferrain, 2008 -- Chris
From: doetnietcomputeren on 6 May 2010 06:24 On 2010-05-06 12:21:29 +0200, "CT" <me(a)christrollen.co.uk> said: > doetnietcomputeren wrote: > >> Sedan run right? Been there twice. > > Neuville-en-Ferrain, 2008 Missed that one due to being in sunnier places. -- Dnc
From: platypus on 6 May 2010 12:26
On 6 May, 11:21, "CT" <m...(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote: > doetnietcomputeren wrote: > > Sedan run right? Been there twice. > > Neuville-en-Ferrain, 2008 Rue du Dronckaert, appropriately enough. |