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After this experience,
there are a few essential conclusions we have come to... |
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- Take
a mobile phone and charger, making sure that your mobile
is fully charged |
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- Take
a laptop with wireless access |
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- Get
the details in writing and don't trust sales people –
they lie (don't look so shocked, especially the insure
ones) |
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Don't try Tesco Breakdown – only too quick to take your
money, verbally assure you that of course it's covered
and then abandon you in a foreign country.
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- Try
contacting the hotels in advance to say that it's you're
special anniversary on the day you arrive – you may get
something nice, flowers, booze, upgrades – always worth
a try. |
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- Take
maps as a backup for TomTom, I'm sure that they do it
out of spite, just add an extra road in that hasn't been
built or miss one off, so have a map. |
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- Do
have a backup plan, friends are a must and really
appreciated |
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Don't trust car rental companies, when they tell you
they have a blah car, you may not actually get that one.
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Check to
make sure that you have the main reservation numbers for
the hotels (Best Western, Travelodge, Premier Travel
Inn), care hire companies and ferry / port contacts
(tunnel, P&O, SpeedFerries etc) |
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Fancy some fun – when hiring a car abroad, always swap
the luggage to English and leave it in some really weird
one! |
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Never assume that it will all go to plan – it won't,
someone somewhere will throw that spanner in the works!
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- So
if you're looking for the Ultimate Drive – try the
passes in the Lake District and stick to the UK!
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Enjoy yourself – it's far better to get even than to get
mad. Build up a plan of attack for when you return –
just waiting to see if
www.tescoBreakdown.CON is registered and if not,
watch out… |
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Now, wait until we get back, watch out for the sparks
that will fly with Tesco for abandoning us in Italy!!! |
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Next adventure – driving to the very south of Spain
sometime in June via Abalos to pickup the wine we
couldn't do this time! Oh, and with a far better car
breakdown policy! |
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