Thanks for your help @spotter and @Thrustvector - spent a good chunk of this weekend trying to figure out how to tweak the logistics so I could do Calais to Hook - avoiding prevailing winds and heading away from rather than towards Calais. But trains back from Harwich at the back end of the bank hol are an arse! Instead, I've opted to make a trip to the Isle of Wight, do the loop and stay over, see some red squirrels, get a ferry back to Portsmouth, ride along the coast to Brighton, heading home on one of the cheapo trains. Planning on doing the Calais to Hook trip later in the year with a couple of pals.
I'm planning on doing this as well at some point.
I'm not going to do Calais though, but do Dunkirk. Calais to Dunkirk just looks really bollox so just skip it.
Plan to take in Bruge, Antwerp and Amsterdam.
Thanks for your help @spotter and @Thrustvector - spent a good chunk of this weekend trying to figure out how to tweak the logistics so I could do Calais to Hook - avoiding prevailing winds and heading away from rather than towards Calais. But trains back from Harwich at the back end of the bank hol are an arse! Instead, I've opted to make a trip to the Isle of Wight, do the loop and stay over, see some red squirrels, get a ferry back to Portsmouth, ride along the coast to Brighton, heading home on one of the cheapo trains. Planning on doing the Calais to Hook trip later in the year with a couple of pals.