Well, here we go off on our big adventure and what a great start, we had to leave London at 6am, and at 6.01 am we departed, all the planning, organisation and focus had paid off, we were off……. We had a great drive down to Dover, made it in about an hour and a half, averaging abut 81 mph…… One small hitch, we had not planned to be at the ferry terminal 45 mins before, of course we knew we had to be, but hadn’t planned to be, so we missed the ferry we were booked on as we only got there 10 mins before sailing…… Oh well, apparently there is more that one ferry a day so we managed to get the next one, an hour later!!!
Crossing went off without incident, yummy breakfast, lots of coffee and a nice sea view!!!
So, we landed on the continent like proper British travellers with nothing more that a passport and a credit card….. Setting up all the new gadgets was fun….. I now know how Paul feels on our road trips, sat with the laptop DJ’ing (i.e. playing the wicked sound track), via an FM transmitter, keeping taps of progress on auto route, uploading from memory sticks……. ahh happy days!!
German motorways are brilliant, there is no speed limits on big chunks of them, Andrew is driving as I am typing this, its quite tricky as he thinks he is a cross between a F1 driver and a go cart racer….. apparently no one else on the road knows how to drive!!!
And then there was traffic jams, its 4.30 our time and the traffic around Frankfurt is a little ‘heavy’!! We are down to 20 mph and lost 2mph off the average all because some silly German decided to break down!! How selfish!! Not that bad though because we were under the fight path of the airport and so got to watch the planes land!
Well, we finally got to the hotel, what a quaint little place, just south of Munich, the old dear on reception was waiting for us, we were the last to check in at abut 9.00pm. she also doubled as the waitress in the restaurant, kindly she brought us the English menu, but then unfortunately would not let us order anything other than her recommendation which actually turned out to be quite good! (Shane would have been right at home, waitress recommendation ruled supreme).
Its now 23.12, and we have retire to our lush room, (split level, with bedroom area, living room bit and dressing room bit with a cool bathroom), with a bottle of red!
Sleep well……
Countries passed through today England, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany!
Distance travelled 10hr 8min – 715miles
Average Speed 69mph
MPG = 45.9
Top speed = 129mph (silly diesel!)
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