Lenny's on a Short Winter Break

Lenny HB said:
There is road up but not recommended for Motorhomes over 7m, there is a parking place for large Motorhomes ½ way between the village and the ticket booth and it's still a steep 15min walk from the ticket booth.

We are hard we walked all the way from the village.

A couple of French vans came in last night they set of this morning about an hour before us they only just got there before us. They started back down the same time as us but arrived back an hour later than us I think they walked up the road a lot easier than the path we took and they don't look quite as knackered as us.
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Come on Lenny HB now fess up! you had sussed out the Ticket Booth Price for the car park, along with the 15 min walk afterwards, and being a proper "Hard"FLT you didn't mention it to the Mrs.....Or The French Dudes parked next to you!:giggle:
Nice!(y)
 
Yesterday was not a good day, all went wrong first thing.
Emptying the cassette as the water was turned off so using grey waste to rinse the cassette, turned switch on for the waste valve, no water coming out of pipe but water flooding out under the van. Pipe broken off at the R/A joint, must have caught the pipe of the high kerb I had to bump over in the village I got stuck in. Grovell under the van and repair with self-amalgamating tape, try again, still water peeing out under the van, pipe also has a split in it, more tape and all is good until we get home.

Next stop Villefranche-de-Conflent, result parking free until 16th March.

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False alarm spoke too soon, came here to ride "The Little Yellow Train" dam train stopped running from here the day before for a month for track work on the line you have to get it from Mont-Louis.
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Mount-Louis only 30km down the road, slight problem main road closed due to rockfall. Station car park not bad if we were catching the train but loads of rail workers vans & containers, skips etc., so could be noisy in the morning.
Head of for Aire in next village only 5km down the road, as we are driving in meet the couple of French vans we keep bumping into, they say, no good, good. Have to go in to turn round, nice Aire but full of hippies. Old Merc camper on jacks with wheels off a couple of real tatty old vans and hippies sitting around smoking.

Another Aire only 1.5km down the road at Casteil, this ones quite nice we get the last spot.

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That was todays good bits. Only 30km to Mount-Louis but with the road closed only took us 3½ hours and 170km to get to Mount-Louis. A very tiring 3½ hours, 60km was a brown trouser job, nasty rock overhangs on the road.
And to cap it off the best part of the train journey is the bit thats not running.

Parked up in the moat, 5100 ft up, not used any heating the last few days here it's 2°.

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Lenny HB said:
Yesterday was not a good day, all went wrong first thing.
Emptying the cassette as the water was turned off so using grey waste to rinse the cassette, turned switch on for the waste valve, no water coming out of pipe but water flooding out under the van. Pipe broken off at the R/A joint, must have caught the pipe of the high kerb I had to bump over in the village I got stuck in. Grovell under the van and repair with self-amalgamating tape, try again, still water peeing out under the van, pipe also has a split in it, more tape and all is good until we get home.

Next stop Villefranche-de-Conflent, result parking free until 16th March.

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False alarm spoke too soon, came here to ride "The Little Yellow Train" dam train stopped running from here the day before for a month for track work on the line you have to get it from Mont-Louis.
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Had a ride on that last year..excellent,,BUSBY.
 
Sorry I mentioned the Yellow Train Lenny, a must for another time! But if you get here by 5p.m. On Saturday I have good ole Fish-n-Chips booked for you in the next village. No pressure I just had to book you in as it is very popular. But no problem if you can't make it.
Stop the Booing you lot, F&C by an English couple in France with UK Cod but unfortunately French spuds so a bit of a lottery there! V.good price as well.
Drive Safe.
Steve
 
OldAgeTravellers said:
Sorry I mentioned the Yellow Train Lenny, a must for another time! But if you get here by 5p.m. On Saturday I have good ole Fish-n-Chips booked for you in the next village. No pressure I just had to book you in as it is very popular. But no problem if you can't make it.
Stop the Booing you lot, F&C by an English couple in France with UK Cod but unfortunately French spuds so a bit of a lottery there! V.good price as well.
Drive Safe.
Steve
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We will be there, well we will try hard, with the road closed it's a hell of a long drive back.
 
Im a bit behind on this lovely thread but just had to look up to see where you were when you got stuck. What a fabulous view of roof structures from overhead. Pity you couldn’t employ vertical take off !
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Lenny, if you ever get the chance to ride the "Train Jaune" from Villefranche make sure the ticket office knows you're over 60 years old (I know you'll have to tell them as they'd never realise :rolleyes:) as you're entitled to (if I remember correctly) a 20% discount (it's run by SNCF).

btw - as you like walking so much I sincerely hope you walked up the hill from Villefrance to Fort Liberia:LOL:
 
Taran_Las said:
Lenny, if you ever get the chance to ride the "Train Jaune" from Villefranche make sure the ticket office knows you're over 60 years old (I know you'll have to tell them as they'd never realise :rolleyes:) as you're entitled to (if I remember correctly) a 20% discount (it's run by SNCF).
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Got the train from Mont Louis, of course I asked for a discount was told only on 8 day tickets.
 
Taran_Las said:
I got the discount on a day ticket.......they must have liked my mush more than yours :LOL:
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As half the line was closed it was a special price only €10 return.

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Well it wasn't worth the 170km drive for the train ride. The last half the route is not very exciting and it was in a modern closed carriage not much cop for photos.

Now for the techies this was the interesting bit. The station at La Tour de Carol is where the French national railway, the Spanish national railway & the Little Yellow train meet. Three different gauge rail tracks in one station. Only one other station that happens at a station in Switzerland.

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