On 20/05/2021 12:07, Andrew wrote:
On 20/05/2021 00:17, Steve Walker wrote:
On 19/05/2021 16:04, charles wrote:
In article ,
Â*Â*Â* Theo wrote:
Steve Walker wrote:
They are never going to provide charging on cross-channel ferries.

The house we were "visiting" (to buy) was not ours until we had done
the paperwork, had only a 3kW supply limit, was at the time
disconnected and we only stopped there long enough to look (bought as
seen on the day) and again for an hour to spray woodworm killer.

Charging anywhere on route, would have delayed us considerably.

So for the one weekend in your life when you drive to France, buy a
house,
spray it with woodworm killer, and drive home again, you rent a
petrol or
diesel car.

I'd considered that as a possibility when thinking about buying an
electric
car.Â* Ah - I'm 81 and hiring a car if you're over 80 it is, apparently,
very difficult.

Not much help anyway when you find an answerphone message at 5pm
saying that your wife's uncle has died and his funeral is on the far
side of Ireland, at 11am either. Too late to get a flight organised,
get the kids to my parents and and get through airport security that
night. The earliest flight in the morning arriving at Belfast or
Dublin too late to pick up a hire car and get to the funeral. Too late
to organise and pick up a hire car in the UK, book the ferry with the
right registration details and get going. The only choice to drive and
use the ferry in our own car - with no time to charge before leaving,
no time to charge en-route and no time to charge (unless the hotel
hosting the meal had chargers) before heading home again.

And we have had multiple occasions of short notice funerals due a
large extended family (M-I-L one of 8 siblings, F-I-L one of 13).

Relocate back to Ireland and 'work from home' ?

I am not from Ireland and neither is my wife, but her family were and are.