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So how much can I expect to pay for a pint of Guinness in Ireland should I decide to do a wee tour prior to the NW200 this year?

Yeah and I have booked my ferry for Sunday 10th May.

Some friends of mine went over to Dublin the other week for the Six Nations - reckoned it was over 5 Euros a pint !

And we lost !

My local village Merlot - 8 Euro's for 5 litres - and it's bloody good too!

Think it was about £2.60 a pint in Joey's bar Ballymoney last year.

My local village Merlot - 8 Euro's for 5 litres - and it's bloody good too!

Keep that quiet! If the missus reads it she'll end up spending the whole holiday pissed out of her head.

Don't worry. When you are here, I'll take you to my favourite Chateau near Narbonne Beach. They sell very decent stuff there, but it's 2 Euro's a litre, so if you have a top-box or tank bag you should be able to fit a plastic "virac" in. Red, white or rose is really drinkable, although all the locals mostly drink rose in the summer.

sidestand wrote:Some friends of mine went over to Dublin the other week for the Six Nations - reckoned it was over 5 Euros a pint !

And we lost !

So it's a fiver a pint then?

Looks like we'll be based on the North side of the border and just do our we run outs into the south during the day.

Falcomille wrote:Don't worry. When you are here, I'll take you to my favourite Chateau near Narbonne Beach. They sell very decent stuff there, but it's 2 Euro's a litre, so if you have a top-box or tank bag you should be able to fit a plastic "virac" in. Red, white or rose is really drinkable, although all the locals mostly drink rose in the summer.

I'm getting a good feeling about this summer already... To be fair, we have a surfeit of places near us producing eminently drinkable wine at excessively reasonable prices. I don't think you can go wrong in the Languedoc, really.

Oh yes, we should be over mid-May for a couple of weeks, but it will be the working holiday. Coming down in the Transporter van all loaded up with building tackle and going back all loaded up with wine.

To be honest... beer is now a distant memory..

I'll take you to my favourite Chateau near Narbonne Beach

Debz now wants to know if she can fit a trailer to her Tuono

I got a 20% discount card for our local co-operative in Tautavel, near Perpignan
http://www.vignerons-tautavel.fr/eng/index.html


Works out at under 20 Euros for the 10 litre boxes of proper Cotes De Roussillon Villages - very tasty & we often come back with around 200 litres in the boot

Falcomille wrote:Don't worry. When you are here, I'll take you to my favourite Chateau near Narbonne Beach. They sell very decent stuff there, but it's 2 Euro's a litre, so if you have a top-box or tank bag you should be able to fit a plastic "virac" in. Red, white or rose is really drinkable, although all the locals mostly drink rose in the summer.

FM - I'm in your neck of the woods about 2nd/3rd June with a couple of mates en route to Millau and points North via Agde (having ferried to Santander 31st May).
Any advice where to stay in the Carcasonne area?

Hi Chabby - depends what you want really. There are lots of budget hotels in Carcassonne and also in Narbonne, which usually cost about 40 - 50 Euro's per room. But there are also plenty of Bed & Breakfast's as well. As Carcassonne is normally pretty well jammed with tourists, it is a good idea to be out of town a wee bit. There is a Formula 1 about 5Km outside of Carcassonne which is cheap (they normally have a double bed plus a bunk above) and they are about 35 Euro's a night, but there are many Etap, B&B and other brands nearby (also near the airport).
Try www.hotel-bb.com or www.etap.com to start with, as they are national chains. let me know when you are down here and I'll arrange to meet up.

sidestand wrote:I got a 20% discount card for our local co-operative in Tautavel, near Perpignan
http://www.vignerons-tautavel.fr/eng/index.html


Works out at under 20 Euros for the 10 litre boxes of proper Cotes De Roussillon Villages - very tasty & we often come back with around 200 litres in the boot

Hey, that's only about 50 Km south of us!

Maybe we can meet up when I'm over next time -
I'm currently plotting to hide one of me TDM's over there this spring & leave it there until next spring.
(when I shall swap it with another one )