CJ
'painful head' moments after an Orange night stop!!
You weren't supposed to night stop at Orange! We had no accommodation.
It was a problem at Istres, where we had limited space for pax, aircrew we bussed to a hotel in Salon-en-Provence. At Orange we had no on base accommodation for visitors, we used the Hotel de la Gare. Which was probably where you stayed.
Our biggest problem was a Beverley full of pongo's, going u/s and having to find beds for them all.