Touring checklist

[Rick101]

MX-5, Two weeks, Bilbao to Zeebrugge.

Ferry tickets
Passport
Licence and V5
Euro health card + travel insurance
Serviced car
Vests, 1st aid kit, triangle, deflectors and GB sticker
3 shorts
2 trousers
5 tops
PH hoodie
Driving shoes (deck shoes)
Flops
Leatherman tool
ADAC card
Wet wipes
Spare key

Anything i've missed?

[rsv gone!]

Spare pants?

Seriously, don't obsess. Only two things are essential; money and passport. Everything else can be bought. Travel light.

(My experiences of much euro-touring on bikes, which have much less luggage capacity than MX5s.)

[B10BRW]

Spare set of bulbs (any bulbs will do)
Car insurance certificate
European breakdown cover

[sherman]

European roaming on your mobile phones
Hard cash Euros
If your on your own some way of depositing the tolls into the tollbooths
Breathalysers
Spare jerry can of fuel just in case.

[Rick101]

Thanks,

Have a few sets of pants
Have 90% euros cash-though been told take card for self service fuel
Insurance docs, good idea thanks
Phone I've stuck £30 on for emergencies. Otherwise I'll be on Wi-Fi only.
Bulbs, are these compulsory?
Breathalyser, I think the latest on these is that the fine is now £0.

Have got most of the above in a little day bag I use for taking my pack up to work.

Cheers

Edited by Rick101 on Saturday 13th July 08:43

[shim]

Salmon Relay



Breakdown telephone number

[old'uns]

paper part of licence if yours is Photo version.
non-Spanish reg vehicles only need 1 triangle but recommended is 2, try arguing with a non English speaking Traffico
economy down the toilet....easy way to make money? stop foreign motorists as well as their own

couple of other piece of advice given to me by friends in Murcia.....

at Stop signs..STOP. apparently you're supposed to wait 3 seconds before moving off even if clear..on the spot fines

Roundabouts....the Spanish it seems have no conception of how to use them...straight over means just that, they straightline 'em ignoring any lines such as we are used to here. scary the first time i saw it at 80kph on a dual carriage roundabout

Enjoy the trip

[Rick101]

Told the mrs to pack light.

Can you guess whose is whose?

[pewe]

Take wind-proof/shower-proof top. It can be cold/windy on top of a mountain (assuming you'll be taking the scenic route rather than motor-way tunnels).

Having said that potentially there are quite a few two-way tunnels en-route so what about headlight beam deflectors? Easily cut from black Fablon or similar (B&Q).

Also I normally take spare belts i.e alernator etc.

Think spare bulbs are compulsory in France but not the Breahtalyzers (IIRC they brought the legislation in but decided not to enforce it.
Also in France be very careful about speeding in towns, villages and built-up areas = on-the-spot-fines.

Enjoy the trip.
Cheers, Pewe.