UK to Murcia winter 2019
we are looking to travel from uk to Murcia in late January. We have 6-8 weeks. Towing a challenger 565 with a Volvo XC70. We now need to cut down on expenses due to unexpected bills. We had been looking at Portsmouth to Santander but now looking at Dover to Calais. We are in Lincolnshire so distance to Portsmouth ot Calais is very similar. Trying to find travel costs from Calais compared with Santander. Anyone any experiences of using eithe route and any ideas of difference in costs. We will be using ACSI.
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Distance from Calais to Murcia is 1200 miles, so I would say that's your first overnight near Calais plus three more campsite overnights on the way (say €70) plus your fuel consumption for 1200 miles (say €240) , plus tolls (say €170). I am estimating but is that total figure of €480 wildly out? That's one way of course .
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Portsmouth/ Le Havre or Caen will knock half a days driving off the journey and skip having to navigate round Paris. An overnight ferry will have you bright-eyed and bushy tailed ready for an early start.
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...or even Poole-Cherboug which is often a little cheaper than the Portsmouth crossings.
all above suggestions handy for the Western Crossing as mentioned by WTG.
from Poole to (say) Nantes in the 4 hrs after landing, onto the border area (Irun, Biarritz etc) next day and then to Valencia over the Pamplona/Zaragosa/Teruel route.
toll free other than the stretch from Bordeaux south.
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We used to set off to Spain and Portugal in late January for 12 weeks every year until medical problems limited our time away. It took us 4 night stops in France before we set off around the southern end of the Pyrenees down past Barcelona to Hospitalet de L' infante and then el Berro in Murcia.
We had our own list of night halts open I January; however, the first at Soissons now closes in winter. Not a lot of help you might say! But our advice as seasoned campers would be:
Stop at Blackhorse and catch an early ferry the next day. You don't want the stress of delays on the M25 or M20 and missing your ferry.
Note that snow is a possibilty in northern France all the way down to the south. In January it starts to get dark in early afternoon so plan to arrive at your overnight stop before dark!
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