Spanish trip

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I costed it out as £800 one way ferry fare plus £150 in fuel for the 500 miles to travel Bilbao to the Murcia region. I  have ignored the night stop at Zaragosa and the departure port because for me, regardless of which route I took, its the same cost. From Calais by road it is about 1150 miles which for me works out at at about £370 in fuel. (21m.pg. at £1.5 per litre) so £370+£150 le Shuttle faire, total £520. It amounts to a bigger saving than I thought even allowing for cost of night stops, which are usually very minor when using the Aires. I avoid the tolls. An Auto-Trail Dakota would be charged class 3 tolls in France so like me you may want to also avoid the tolls. Where in Spain do you intend to head for?

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Got first hand info thanks, you have forgotten already, my daughter lives there

I normally use the Portsmouth - Cairn crossing as i only live 20 minutes from the ferry port and it is only 5 1/2 hrs crossing time so no need for cabin, just reserve a airline type seat.

Used Santander last time as on the outbound there was no diesel in France due to refinery workers being on strike. I normally take the route via Aranjuez and sometime stop for 2 or 3 days on return leg as they have a pool etc.

Towing a caravan i normally use the toll roads, France is expensive, Spain not quite so bad but they have re-introduced some tolls on the holiday routes.

so even my "off the top of my head" figure of £2k would not be far off the mark taking the Spanish crossing.

how much fuel do you burn in the Uk getting home to port and return, mine is minimal so would not include this in any costing but OP has 3ltr engine and not sure where they would be coming from.

how much fuel do you burn in the Uk getting home to port and return, mine is minimal so would not include this in any costing but OP has 3ltr engine and not sure where they would be coming from.

I live equidistant from Portsmouth or Folkstone so discount the fuel cost for those journeys, they being the same for me. A 3ltr Fiat would give you about 21/23m.p.g. pulling a Dakota. My first motorhome was an AutoTrail Mohican, a similar size to the Dakota and I used to get 23m.p.g. with it but, it was a Merc engine, 2.8 I think.

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Is it racist only to blame black flies?

You need to take her out more 

I only quoted what was on the interweb, but they are a problem, we bought a a device that is something like those used in e.g. bakeries, flourescent light type unit that zaps flies.

The chinese bazaar had sold out of those plastic swotter type things. SIL returned from Torrevieja last week, where they have an apartment, and she said they could not eat outside because the flies were such a problem, so it may not be emmisions you need to worry about, but how many flies your engine will suck in 

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This might be of use to the OP concerning emission zones.