Monday
We had our breakfast sat in the pub garden and then went for
a nice walk. There were some lovely houses, but were all pretty much backing
onto the M20. The noise from traffic was unbelievable, and as nice as the
houses were they must be pretty much unsellable.
We had a 15 minute drive to Dover via Tesco at Cheriton for
fuel, and checked in for the ferry nice and early. DFDS again, £49.00 out,
£59.00 return.
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| Goodbye Dover |
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| Hello Calais |
We arrived at Calais 2.45pm local time and then had a very
tiring drive to put some distance between us and the Channel. It was like
Whacky Races surrounded by articulated lorries, but once an hour or so away
from Calais it calmed down. We had planned a first overnight stop in France at
Laon. We found the aire in the shadow of a very impressive cathedral / castle
but it was full. Five minutes further on at a small town called Bruyeres at
Montberault we bagged the last space on a very pleasant little aire. We chatted
with a guy who was on his way home, having been in France since the last week
in May on a Rally with his Rotary Club. Nice supper of cold meat and tomato,
courtesy of Lidl of all places, but we did also pick up some wine, which was
really cheap. I managed to down half a bottle of Motagne St. Emilion, which was
really rather good – but at €1.95 a bottle I wouldn’t have minded what it
tasted like!
Chilled in the van for the evening planning tomorrow’s route.
Drum Inn, Stanford, Kent to Bruyeres et Montberault : 185
miles
Aire : No cost
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