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- From: philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake)
- Subject: Re: Getting to coastal France from London
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:36:26 GMT
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- In article <1h64cuINNnng@LEOPARD.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU>, yan-dicky@cs.yale.edu (Dicky Yan) writes:
- |> >I will be in London in February next year. While there, I thought we could
- |> >make a quick 3-day trip into France (see Paris, say). Ideally, we would
- |> >like to take the ferry (hovercraft?) from London to Calais or Caen, pick
- |> >up a rental car there and drive to Paris or outskirts.
- |> >
- |> >Fodor's guide does not list any London-coastal France ferry service, though
- |> >they are available from Dover/Folkstone, etc.
- |> >
- |> >1. We want to avoid travelling to Dover for the ferry. Is there a
- |> >ferry from London? If yes, could I have the name of the co.?
- |> >
- |> >(Our other option it to take the bus from London-Paris (via ferry), but
- |> >then again we will need to stay in the city in a reasonable place.)
- |> >
- |> >Thanks.
- |> >
- |> >-Manish Sharma
- |> >...att!trumpet!mks
- |>
- |> You can take the train (instead of driving your own car) from central
- |> London to a port in Kent (a few of them are available) and then take
- |> a ferry or a hovercraft to France (again, a few routes exist) and then
- |> get your car or take another train to central Paris.
- |>
- |> * You can find information about all these in Victoria Station (cental
- |> London) and you can buy all these tickets (rail-ferry-rail, rail-hover-rail)
- |> as a combined ticket.
- |>
- |> * The ferry is biger and slower but it will take cars too. Not sure whether
- |> the hovercarft will take cars. I guess not.
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- Yes, the hovercraft does take cars.
- Hovercraft are slowly being replaces with "Sea Cats" - large, ocean going
- catermarans, which are almost as fast, but carry more cars - with less noise
- and vibration.
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- Philip
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