We tend to eat .. go to the loo ,. ensure the kids have eaten and been to loo and washed hands .. before we set off anywhere.
I have a stash of sucky sweets close to hand ...and perhaps some seedless grapes ..loose and just available in case, This is not the same as a huge sandwich or something which drops crumbs all over my car interiors . If we want something more substantial en route.. then we make a proper pit stop .. which makes sense with a large family on the move anyway
Ernest Marsh wrote:
johnsher wrote:
Ernest Marsh wrote:
neither should you risk going hungry before you reach the next available stop if it maintains your alertness.
this has to be the most feeble excuse that people keep coming up with on here. It's not as though we're driving the kalahari or something. Is people's planning so bad that they can't work out whether they're going to need to eat or drink in the 10 minutes between services?
I hate to think how many of you are wearing nappies because you might need to go potty before the "next available stop".
As I said
, I dont condone eating on the move, but if you were travelling from Carlisle to the South Coast to catch a continental ferry, and had been held up for a lengthy time in a jam, your schedule could be stretched a little.
IF IT WAS SAFE, I could understand that you might wish to push on so as not to miss your ferry, and forego a meal in a service station, and I do know some people need to eat or get "fretful". Maybe there is a medical explanation for this - thankfully I dont suffer!
I usually book a room in a cheerful cheap B&B for us - and stay over .. catching the ferry or Eurotunnel in the morning. It does break up the journey for us and take off some of the pressures of missing the boat. We found a really nice one five minutes from the port on Castle Hill Road - and it cost me £95 for his basement family flat which gave us all a bed for the night and a fully cooked Monty English in the morning
It even had a kitchen so - quick visit to the chip shop and supermarket down the road .. and we had a decent evening meal too
Can highly recommend those B&Bs on Castle Hill Road .. not far from Dover Castle.
But if in a jam.. we will eat crisps.. grapes .... pre-prepared segments of orange and a sucky sweet to just keep us going - but always have an idea where we may make a shorter 20 minute stop later on... just to refresh, and leg stretch.
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I also have the luxury of being able to share the driving with my wife when on long journeys, and with two children, stops are essential to prevent trouble brewing in the back!!
Indeed they are... Our youngest rogues
Yes.. I also share with Wildy and now with our three young drivers. I wonder how we coped without them now
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In France, there are fewer services with facilities, but more places to stop and eat your own food. Not sure if this would work here or not, but I like the idea.
I think it would work. We have enjoyed many a picnic at the "Aires" - but I think our fave just has to be the Chiemsee picnic area off the A8