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Alert: 06/02/2007
Ferries,
Vehicles, Tents, Insurance, Innoculations
1) Ferry Crossing Ramsgate to Ostend
You will have
all now received information on how to book your vehicles and passengers
from Ramsgate to Ostend. You need to do this immediately as although
we have secured a deal, this ferry is not for our sole use so please
book ASAP (see
attached on how to book (word).
2) Ferry Algeciras
to Tangiers
We will have
information out on this very shortly.
3) Short Term
Car Insurance
You can obtain
short term car insurance, this will include breakdown cover. Please
follow the link.
http://www.dayinsure.com/
4) Tents and
Sleeping Bags
Birmingham
has secured 10,000 tents and sleeping bags. If you would like one
or more of these for use on the trip, as you will be sleeping either
in your vehicles or outside at times, please call Councillor Ishtiaq
on 07973600450 or Councillor Naheem on 07976256360.
5) VEHICLE
REQUIREMENTS
Legal requirements for Europe (all available at, for example, Halfords):
1. Red warning triangle
2. Complete spare bulb set (headlights, side lights, indicators,
tail lights, brake lights, fog lights)
3. Fire extinguisher
4. First-aid kit
5. High-visibility (i.e. day-glo yellow) jacket for every occupant
of the vehicle including non-drivers
6. A GB sticker at the rear (available at the ferry port)
7. Headlamp beam adjusters (stickers to set your lamps to be legal
in left-hand drive countries)
Advisable items but not compulsory
• A can of emergency tyre repair (ruins tyres but is useful
if you run out of spare tyres - NOT a replacement for a spare -
carry one of those as well!)
• A fuel filter for diesels (usually around £10 so don't
be put off that it sounds technical!)
• A spare fan belt (or two if vehicle has two)
Items recommended for at least one vehicle in your team (please
don't rely on everyone else having them):
• A set of jump leads
• A tow rope suitable width='100%' for the weight of your
vehicle (cheap ones will not do for large vans)
6) Inoculations
What the NHS
does advise are the normal boosters of the vaccines most UK people
have:
Diphtheria
Tetanus
Polio
Typhoid
- which most GPs keep in stock;
and additionally they recommend getting:
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
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