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Suzie -
and then everyone wonders why i won't go in the tunnel
but how the hell did a lorry carrying hazardous chemicals manage to fall over??
i'm definitely never going on it now
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I thought they weren't supposed to carry volatile chemicals through the tunnel? Let alone how on earth it fell over.
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Tunnel? Big ferries? No thanks! I've just come back from Brugge and had yet another excellent trip with SpeedFerries - the catamaran which runs Dover-Boulogne. Four people + car - total cost (return) £44! I had one disabled passenger and the kindness and consideration and efficiency wer, again, excellent. And no coaches or lorries! As Arthur Marshall said "Who wants the tunnel? Couldn't we just stuff all the pollution down it and seal it up?"!!
Mind you, the crossing last Thursday was ROUGH! (I loved it.)
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Thats got to be the best news for ages!!!!!The greatness comes not when things go always good for you,but the greatness comes when you are really tested,when you take,some knocks,some disappointments;because only if youv'e been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.Comment
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What?Other than the fact the world didn't end yesterday?!!Originally posted by Cloud View Post
the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.
Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xxComment
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there's time yet andi&di - the particle thingies haven't collided yet!
When the tunnel was being constructed I said 'no way, no how will I go in that thing' - but I have, many many times and I have to say it is totally superb - it goes like this:
England, enter tunnel
sit still in very brightly lit train/tunnel for 20-25 mins
France, exit tunnel
superb bit of engineering but if I could choose to cut us off from Europe ...no contest
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Which is precisely why my ironing pile is gettig higher & higher!!Originally posted by piskieinboots View PostThing is if it doesn't happen soon I'm gonna be sending my girl to school looking a complete ragamuffin!!maybe I ought to just do some of it!!
the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.
Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xxComment
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That's how Europe feels also!Originally posted by Cloud View Post
If we don't fly back to the UK, we only ever use the tunnel now. We've only ever had one delay in all the time it's been open, never had anybody heave up beside us because the crossing is so rough and never had our car damaged when the buses got loose in a raging storm on a ferry as we once did.
OK, it's a bit more expensive but if you're a regular traveller you can get a carnet which saves substantially, we just booked a return in November, two people, car etc., and that cost 129 euro return. Suits us fine and rememberm this is only the second fire in a tunnel since it opened, the Tunnel is NOT closed except for the last third and only on one side so it will keep running.Last edited by TonyF; 12-09-2008, 11:52 AM.TonyF, Dordogne 24220Comment
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Tis a bit daft that this volume of phenol was allowed through! Unless there was one 2.5L Winchester and it's media hype!Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
Did you know that ageing wine in oak barrels introduces phenols into the wine? Just found that out!Comment
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I'm Closetphobic, went on it twice I managed to hold my breath with my eyes closed for 20 minutes both ways, never againHayley B
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Booked the day before the fire to take car through the tunnel. Going in two weeks. Taking my parents, they have only ever been abroad once before and that was 20 years ago. We are treating them to a week in a gite in Normandy. My mother is too terrified to fly and my father gets sea sick just looking at a ferry. Thought the tunnel would be perfect. As the fire took 16 hours to put out then there must be a lot of damage which may take weeks if not months to repair. How can it run on just the one tunnel? Have I got this wrong? It takes the car carrying train at least 30 mins to get through. But surely once a train is in the tunnel, then nothing else can come through from the other side until the other one has come out. So that means one train in each direction per hour. How can they run a service for the car carrying trains, the freight trains and all the Eurostar passenger trains?
Or is there a cross over point somewhere along the line?
Have also just booked with Speed Ferries just in case Eurotunnel cancel our journey. My Dad will have to take Qwells or a sedetive!!
If the tunnel is all OK then we can change the Speedferries ticket for another time, we have a house in the Charente and go over there regularly anyway, so it won't be wasted.
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Hi Flytrap
Me. go for the drugs, I used to be chronically sea sick until I discovered something I'm sure was called Sealegs or something, but anyway it's got the stage that I can cross the channel without closetphobia and no sickness, however I do still need to see the sea and preferably land so when going from Calais to Dover I watch until we lose sight of Calais then make sure that I'm one of the first to see French soil, maybe make it a game
Hayley B
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We have managed without Europe for Hundreds of years,in fact we probaly ruled it for most of them!The greatness comes not when things go always good for you,but the greatness comes when you are really tested,when you take,some knocks,some disappointments;because only if youv'e been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.Comment
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Well, that's a nice and progressive view of Europe.Originally posted by Cloud View PostTonyF, Dordogne 24220Comment
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