Saturday
An interesting day and a day of 2
halves.
We started out early heading for an Aire close to the Belgian border
about 2 hours from Calais, giving us an easy drive for a 4pm ferry. However at
about 11.30 am a sudden horrible vibration indicated Frank was poorly. We stopped
to find the right nearside tyre completely gone. Luckily we had just come of
the auto route and were travelling quite slowly. Looking at the jack I was not
at all comfortable that it was up to the job so we called the break down
service. They were brilliant and a really nice French man turned up sorted
everything - and we were on the road less than 90 minutes after stopping.
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| Waiting for the recovery truck |
While we were digging out the
break down paper work I noticed that the ferry was 9am so Plan B! Instead of a
short drive we now had a long drive. We headed for the Aire at Gravelines which
we used last year.
So a long day on the road, but it
was a beautiful evening overlooking the canal and boats and sunset.
We chatted to a few couples
who had just landed in France. The young couple next door in the hire van
knocked and asked for help. If only they knew how new we were to this!!
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| Gravelines Aire |
Miles today 232 Aire 6 Euro.
Sunday
Ferry and then the drag up the motorway and home!!! It was a great holiday.
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