Yes they don’t offer the discount on the website, presumably on the grounds that if they did everyone would want one. 
Now I know you’ll all be concerned but it wasn’t me.
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One has to admire their optimism in that description. 
Especially as they did not serve breakfast in the morning, that said its a nasty breakfast with weired tasting sausages.
I like the wire mesh to keep the riff-raff contained…
Actually its to stop unauthorised entry into the duty free area, I positioned myself under it but didnt have tbe right wire cutters to effect an entry 
Go over the wire not under it - what you needed was a Great Escape genuine Wehrmacht Triumph Trophy Twin…
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I had a Triumph Trophy 250 single, obviously thats where I went wrong 
Only half as good.
It was cunning of the Germans to make a bike based on a future Triumph design like that.
The bike was acting,
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It was indeed - just as in the movie “Patton” all the Panzer divisions in North Africa were driving around in post-war M48 tanks - known as “Pattons” - with German crosses painted on.
See also the white plastic doorbell in the 60s movie “Battle of Britain”, which now has its own Twitter account:
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Despite its makeup it’s pretending not very successfully to be a BMW or a Zundapp which had horizontal cylinders not vertical ones. 
That’s right, because only the British bikes had proper upstanding cylinders, not lazing around on their side. 
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We have Steve in his iconic film Bullit where he drives the hills of San Francisco only to keep being overtaken by the green VW Beetle was is 13 times? Certainly a Porche powered beetle
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A tiny exhibition has just opened in Dieppe to celebrate 200 years of the Newhaven Dieppe ferry route. I loved the photo of the rather upmarket dining rooms, together with the menu and duty free prices from distant pre-Euro days. The journey by steamer in the 1930s apparently only took 3 hours (4 now!) albeit you don’t now need to have your car winched on or off by crane anymore…
The exhibition moves to Newhaven in late September.
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I travelled from Newhaven to Dieppe on the 23h00 sailing (arrive Dieppe 05h00) last night (23 Aug 25) and the disembarkation was much faster than previous trips. The ship was fully booked, with no cabins available and even the top deck lounges were more than 80% full. Every car deck I saw was full.
The ship docked at 05h00, and disembarkation started very quickly.
The new covered border control area appears to be fully operational, and 5 lanes were open and manned this morning. As a result, I drove out of the port compound at 05h20, despite being in the last 12 cars to leave the ship.
I continue to recommend this route, especially if they can maintain this new speedy system.
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We’re in 2 minds about this route. The worst aspect is the crossing is just a little too short, and disembarking at 4am UK time is a bit miserable. Glad they have things well sorted at the port.
Yes me too. Compared to BF Portsmouth-Caen it adds an hour’s drive on the French side if going to Vienne/Charente and points south, as opposed to an hour sitting on the boat. The drive to Newhaven (from Guildford) is fiddlier for me as well on the UK side, being a cross-country wiggle as opposed to a shorter blast along the A3.
And the 5am arrival is not a lot of fun, especially if Normandy provides some thick fog to enjoy for the first hour or so as it did when I crossed in June!
But it’s a noticeably cheaper crossing and with the ports being smaller getting on and off can be quicker.
My last two visits to France I’ve split the difference and done Newhaven-Dieppe outbound and Ouistreham-Portsmouth return.
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How long did it take you to get home @_Brian? I still can’t quite bring myself to use Newhaven to Dieppe, i literally said at 15 years old after yet another school day-trip which involved the most horrific crossings both ways, ‘never again’, and have stuck to it, but it really would be quite nice to get off the ferry in Newhaven and be having a coffee in my parents kitchen 15 minutes later.