Our route for next year is also bypassing Calais due to the troubles.
Also we are going to calm things down a bit for 2017. The general consensus was it got a bit wild and out of hand the first 2 nights travelling down. We may also decrease numbers too to make it more manageable and make people staying in all SM gites responsible for their own payments and arrangement.
The base plan is:
DAY 1 Tuesday
Noon - High speed ferry from Portsmouth to Cherbourg, visiting Anse De Brick beach and then onwards and staying in Saint Vaast. We may actually stay in Cherbourg as I had night out there a year ago and it was actually very buzzing what with the marina and all.
Anne De Brick beach
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Saint Vaast
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DAY 2 Wednesday
Travel to Mayenne and stay the night local
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DAY 3 Thursday
Travel down to Le Mans for the usual 5 days, staying in the same sites but moving the meeting place from Arnage to possibly Mulsanne or another bar venue North of the track as again, we feel we have done Arnage to death and its all a bit boring now. We may even go into Le Mans centre
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Either way, it will be a very different trip in 2017 from the previous one.