Overnight/full day ferry crossings.
How do people manage regarding the fridge on long crossings? Is the only way to go with it empty & head for the nearest supermarket on the other side - or blocks of ice?
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In winter, exactly the same on the 2-night crossing to Spain. Everything still frozen solid on arrival at campsite. I don't even bother to run the fridge on 12v when on the move.
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Over the years we have done things that now make us shake our heads in disbelief just to save some pennies. Now finances are not so tight we take what is in the fridge and a very large homemade lasagne which we freeze before we leave and is often still frozen after an overnight crossing and a days travelling.
Also a visit to a supermarket will be done ASAP if only for croissants and Confipote jam!
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We go overnight from Plymouth to Roscoff, and as we are invariably stopping for wine, beer and diesel at 9am. the next morning we pick up that day's food at the same time. We don't take frozen food with us when we fly anywhere, so we don't do it when we go on a ferry.
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Depending on where we are going, we tend to only carry the basics with us. Fridge is often turned off if doing a long sea crossing.
Don't see any point in dragging frozen food 1000 miles to the South of France when a visit to a French supermaket is such a pleasure. Each to their own though.
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I fill the freezer, couple of home made meals plus frozen steaks from my butcher. I find shopping tedious and expensive in France. I also have a couple of freezer blocks in there too, to be used in a cool bag when we go out for the day. Even on the long crossing to Spain the food was still solid. Just don't take soft stuff like ice cream and you will be fine.
ET some folk like to carry food with them and some folk have special dietary requirements, it gives them time to source it one over the other side.
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Hi Tammy, I suppose the difference for us is that we have flown and travelled - not hotel packages - in so many faraway places that taking British frozen food was always impossible and so we have never thought of doing it for Europe. Eat native was always a necessity. . Different life style we got used to.
Are you on your way back ? Take care. Safe journey.
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On the long crossing to Spain my home made boil in bag freezer meals stayed solid. They are easy to use as they just need to be cooked in boiling water from frozen. Good standby in case the time of disembarkation is late afternoon when there are no suitable supermarkets.
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When we took the caravan on a ferry, we used to put everything we wanted to take on the fridge shelves, and then fill every available space with frozen mini-boxes of juice, frozen water, etc. This made sure that everything stayed very cold until we reached our destination, and then all the frozen juices, etc., could be used and drunk.
Now we don't bother - our caravan is stored in France, and we 'go native' and buy everything wherever we are staying.
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Back home now ET, we had a good drive back thanks.
Yes I suppose if you are back packing type of holidays you would just have to eat local not much choice really. Have never done it doubt I ever will now. I do take some food stuff with me to Lanzarote when we go for 3 weeks each year, I rather like eating in the apartment some nights, eating out in restaurants is something I used to enjoy but nowadays its less appealing.
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TG, glad to see youre back safely, we 'take off' in 90 mins or so, first stop Lidl (500m) for a 'few' cases of red wine....OH wants her white from France....cant blame her....
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lunch stop 50km south of Zaragosa.....sun still hot but a cooler breeze up here, passed the 1000m altitude sign earlier but seem to recall it gets higher still....
safe trip to you both..
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Fear not AND and the liker.
I of course meant always turned off and in fact always disconnected from the car socket in case the relay sticks as once happened to me and as I have posted several times before.
Silly me. Not been on for a while and still keyboard rusty.
Fysh. (Fisherman is someone else, fine chap but not me)
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and some old friends are still posting.