Surfing Waves

just wondering has anyone ever travelled to croyde by train with their board?

I dont think it would be that bad with a shorty, but i have a 7 8" minimal and i dont even think it would fit in the train.....

do you have to pay extra or anything?

im trying to get down to croyde and had a lift sorted with my boyfriend.......but i found out the fleshin twat has been indulging in unhealthy hobbies with many other girls......so he is not exactly my first choice of transport if ya know what i mean.

you can get as far as banstaple by train but you wont get any further, you could get a bus but normaly they wont let people on with surfboards could get a taxi i guess but might cost a bit

Quite alot of peeps hitch from b'staple.. you jsut gotta walk over fromt he station and get to the road out.

Alternatively why don't you post up in the ride share sections of MSW or visit www.travelwise.co.uk

Thats gonna be a bit of a mission... you have to get a train to Exeter and then go back on yourself to Barnstaple (adds an extra hour to the trip ) from Barny the bus station is a 10 minute walk and the bus drivers are generally pretty grumpy old farts who won't let you take a board on. Try the old flirting card if that doesn't work walk out of Barny towards Pottington (another 10 mins) and hitch from there. Probably won't have much luck at this time of year though unless the surf's really good. If that doesn't work I'm heading home in a couple of weeks and will be heading to the beach, drop me a line

I don't know if it's changed in recent years but taking a surfboard on a train used to cost you FULL FARE!

That means if you're ticket's going to cost you £80, you can add another £80 for your board!

I always wanted to take mine first class and demand the complimentary breakfast for it!!

The amusing this was if you wrapped it up and called it a package, you could put it in the guards car for free!!!

This was a little while ago so it might have changed!

Cheers

Sinista

thanx for the advice guys

i think im gonna have to prospone my trip, it seems such an expensive mission to get down there and im not too keen on the hitching idea. I have just left it too late to get down this week... grrrr its so anoying!

croyde is gonna be pretty much blown out this week anyway so you wont be missing much

jennie wrote: im not too keen on the hitching idea.

I hitched from london to newquay once... two days to get there, one days surfing, two days to get back

Probably takes about that to get there in a VW camper anyway though doesn't it?

sinistapenguin wrote:Probably takes about that to get there in a VW camper anyway though doesn't it?

...but at least there's somewhere to sleep

Actually, its funny that...

I used to drive from london to croyde in my little vauxhall corsa, and quickest I ever did it was in about 3 and 3/4 hours (4am, 90mph+ all the way), but it usually took about 4 and a bit hours.

Now I do it in a camper van - top speed 60mph (or 6mph uphill), and it takes... 4 hours and 30 minutes

And as Im the slowest thing on the road, I dont get held up so much by traffic, so it always take about 4 hours and 30 minutes (as long as the A303 is moving at all).

And that 30-45 mins is more than made up for in the time it takes to load a car, unload the car, put up a tent etc etc
Compared to set off, turn up, surf


And, of course, its nice to wave at the other campers

and half the fuel consumption of a corsa driving at 90+mph :p

yeah try a 3lt porsche that your board can only just fit in never mind sleep in. might get there quick ,120 cruising, but sleeping with the tramps in the bus shelter is not fun. Although not thought of bringing a tent, doh.

Porsche .

Whatcha got then?

Old 911 Carrera?
944?
968?