Andorra & Back in 48h [FuddyMuckers]

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====== Andorra & Back in 48h ======

This was something of a spur-of-the-moment thing, "hey let's do a road trip!" and other than booking a return ferry crossing we had zero plans.

Here is the extensive vehicle preparations we undertook before embarking:

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Which is basically all you need with a Freelander... we could've thrown some monster energy in but opted to buy that on-route to save weight ;) and besides, there's always disappointing service-station coffee as an alternative.

On the ferry we threw a few ideas round - we could go here or there, and then someone said "...but can you get there and back in 48h?" and someone else said "How far **can** you get in 48h?"... and that was the most interesting question so we decided on that.

As for //direction// of travel - we thought that it would be really cool if we could make it all the way down to Africa and back (blame TSD for suggesting it), so we set off in the general direction of //down// to see what happened.

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Yeah it wasn't quite Cannonball Run and we were mostly just blatting along on the motorway in a diesel Freelander rather than getting up to high-octane shenanigans or sight-seeing... but it was a laugh and there were some photos, and this is them:

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Portsmouth Ferry Port - Saturday, 00:37h
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9 Hours later we're in Le Havre with a vague <del>plan</del> direction and ready to rock.
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Pont Du Normandie
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This place looks trendy.
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It is a viaduc. t.
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We are in a tunnel. Nous sommes dans un tunnel.
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Behold, the majestic scenery of Andorra town centre on a foggy night!
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22 hours 30 mins later we're in Andorra, must be time for some food!
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Not many places open at midnight but this place sounds delicious...
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All fooded up we head back down the dark and misty mountain.
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As we're homeward bound we looked for places to go through on our way back to spice it up a bit - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne|Carcasonne]] was a short detour and is very cool.
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Although not many places open at this hour, lazy forrins!
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We did detour through LeMans on the way back but failed to find any interesting bits due to lack of planning / decent mappage and having a ferry to catch.
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Back at Portsmouth Ferry Port - Monday, 00:10h - 1 day, 23 hours, 33 minutes and 9 seconds later and ~1600 miles covered.
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===== So, how far can you get in 48h? =====

About 1600 miles as it turns out - probably more if you're more organised and don't stop for pizza.

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