The ferry is now booked, using the DFDS (Norfolk Line) Dover / Dunkirk route, did use the NEC promotion code and paid £58.00 for the return crossing 
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Plans are: set off on Saturday September 8, to Dover and get the 22.00hr sailing to Dunkirk arriving at 01.00hr; drive North on the A18 and before joining the A10 stop at a rest area, and get something to eat, drink and a few hours sleep. Then head towards Antwerp and the A67 / A40 to Essen and Dortmund, on to the A44 to Kassel for an overnight stop. From there take the A38 to Leipzig, A14 Dresden and pick up the A17 / A8 to Prague for our first night Sept 10. The site we will be staying at is Camping Praha, Klanovice on the outskirts of Prague, will be staying there for six nights.
We will be visiting Prague, the various castles and surrounding countryside (cycling) and also a visit the Skoda museum and factory, the birth place of the Octavia! We will then leave on Sept 16, driving South West to the Bavarian / Austrian border, staying at Camping Max, Bad Fussing for another six nights. Passau is a few miles away on the River Danube with a good cycle track to Vienna, so a nice 40 mile ‘ish cycle ride (not all the way to Vienna) hopefully finding a bar or two, on the route! 
Salzburg is only 75 miles away, so a ‘must’ visit and then possibly a day’s drive in the Austrian Alps.
Will leave on Sept 22 and make our way back to Dunkirk having two overnight stops then getting the ferry on Monday Sept 24 at 20.00hr, arriving home Sept 25; back to work the next day. Will be using the Camping Cheques Gold Card, which will have been loaded up before leaving, to spread out the cost of the sites, but at £13.95 (€15) a night, not too expensive.
From Yorkshire the round trip is about 2,000 towing miles, plus all the other driving miles.
