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    Johnny's Jaunts: Calais to Calais
    Johnny's Jaunts: Calais to Calais
    Johnny's Jaunts: Calais to Calais
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    Johnny's Jaunts: Calais to Calais

    By John Commons

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    The story of my twenty-four day motorbike tour from Calais to Calais, taking in incredible views and amazing food, complete with photographs I took along the way. Set aside some time and enjoy the adventure with me.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Commons
    Release dateMar 7, 2023
    ISBN9798215058725
    Johnny's Jaunts: Calais to Calais
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    John Commons

    Hi folks, I'm John and I'm the landlord of the Victoria Bikers Pub in Coalville, Leicestershire. Once named ‘The Best Biker and Trucker Pub’ by the Oldie Magazine, The Vic has featured on TV shows such as Holiday Showdown, Four in a Bed, BBC Inside Out, and was also chosen as Al Murray’s ‘Pub of the Week’. Famous guests include Chas n Dave, the Hairy Bikers and England World Cup winning captain and Leicester Tigers legend Martin Johnson. We have regular live music, weekend festivals and rock discos and are renowned for being friendly and welcoming. I started writing The House of Commons circa 2018, the memoir of my life and various careers before taking over stewardship of the Vic. I'm now working on my Johnny's Jaunts series, taken from my Facebook blog, which chronicles my motorbike journeys around the UK, Europe and beyond. I hope you enjoy them!

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      Johnny's Jaunts - John Commons

      Johnny’s Jaunts: Calais to Calais

      Copyright 2023 John Commons

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      Table of Contents

      Day 1

      Day 2

      Day 3

      Day 4

      Day 5

      Day 6

      Day 7

      Day 8

      Day 9

      Day 10

      Day 11

      Day 12

      Day 13

      Day 14

      Day 15

      Day 16

      Day 17

      Day 18

      Day 19

      Day 20

      Day 21

      Day 22

      Day 23

      Day 24: The Conclusion

      Welcome to Johnny’s Jaunts, a collection of travel stories on my motorbike taken from my daily blog on Facebook. I hope you find it amusing.

      DAY 1

      Day one of a three-week-ish jaunt doing the east and coastline of France, Spain, Portugal and maybe Gibraltar. I left The Vic this morning about nine and rode to Le Tunnel non-stop. Errr, my bike has a Garmin sat-nav, beeline sat-nav, my Samsung phone has sat-nav... but I didn’t use any because I know the way to Folkestone, right? Wrong. I ended up in Eastbourne, derrrrrr. Why don’t I use my in-ear from my phone instead of trying to be clever? Anyway, Eastbourne was quite nice, so was Hastings and Rye, New Romney was OK. Dymchurch I could have cried, I passed my favourite fish restaurant called The Ocean Bar, so missed out on my fish n chips, didn’t want to miss my slot on Le Shuttle. I stopped to refuel just outside Folkestone and bought two chicken sandwiches. I ate one and saved the other till later. Er, five minutes later. That’s all I’ve had all day. Oh and a coffee for breakfast, poor me. Arrived at the tunnel complex and should have completed the booking online, so had to go to the ticket and information to have it all checked manually. They asked me where I was going in France, I said I didn’t know. They looked at me gone out, I said I never know where I’m going, I just go. I rode down to where the train was and it seemed very quiet. I mentioned this to a bloke guiding me onto a carriage, he said it was busy yesterday, a

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