Damaged nose of rapidfire spitfire. How to fix it?

[Matt_s]

I was tempted to do a France mission but now contemplating saving as much as I can until next May and doing a Maldives trip. Everyone on here having already been is making me jealous!

prj that is a sold plan, I think may will be a good time of year to go, defo follow through with that plan

im a teacher so i have a mandatory 6 weeks off, i think living cheap in a van for 6 weeks will equate to a similar amount of money as staying at home for 6 weeks (once iv paid for the petrol to get down there)

[prjwebb]

Yeah France will be ideal once you're there. I've been looking into all the options of getting there recently. Was working out around £700 inc fuel for Plymouth Roscoff and around the £1200 zone for Santander crossing. Pretty steep! Seems cheaper the further you drive and if you've got 6 weeks time is on your side!
Not sure how much the tunnel is?

[prjwebb]

Those were peak season return prices by the way.

[Matt_s]

always cheaper dover-calais or dover - dunquirk in my experience, but far less convenient for you as you have to spend time and petrol getting to dover

im going saturday and coming back in 6 weeks so very peak times, 101 pounds return! (dover-calais) - not too bad. Petrol will probably cost me around 200 to get down there and 200 back again in a van, but thats split between 2 so pretty cheap really (might be able to avoid toll roads with a bit more time), then day to day diesel and food

Did it in a car in June for about 250 for the week staying in hossegor campsite based on 2 sharing incl everything (food included)

as a surfer you are constantly weighing off costs of everything in life against surf trips or surfboards. Last summer i talked myself out of a trip abroad and stayed in europe to justify my purchase of a sweet potato instead of a long all flight :) i wonder what il trade off against the cost of a hellfire or something other amazingly tempting surfboard

[Matt_s]

tunnel was at least twice the ferry btw, have done it before though and in october for example it can be a similar price, its very quick and theres little queuing