This level of luxury travel demands a similar environment on the ferry and, particularly at busy holiday times, the P&O Ferries’ Club Lounge is well worth it, particularly if you’re on business: free papers, soft drinks and a glass of champagne in elegant and quiet surroundings top-and-tail a business trip like few other forms of transport!
It also gives you time to get to grips with the user’s manual for Audi Connect to set up the ‘office’ before hitting the beautifully maintained EU-funded roads of France. On the face of it, things seemed straight forward until you find the SIM from you’re phone you have to install in the dashboard slot has to be the ‘standard’ large size.
My iPhone 5, naturally, uses a nano so it was a no-go until I tracked down the Vodafone store in Trier just over the German border with Luxembourg.
Sadly, the SIM converter was not engineered to the car’s high standards and required some plastic remodelling to get it to sit in the required slot. But, hey presto, up pops the superb Google Earth map visuals, local weather, newsfeeds, social media outlets and even city events in the locality.
However, what didn’t work was the Audi Connect suite. Back to the manuals, and one pdf web-based brochure is a full 18-pages long, I was prompted to set up an online myAudi account to access the suite of features remotely.
