Day 18 – Saturday 29th September

Got up early, used facilities at the camp site and took down the tent all by 9.00am. Tried to pay the lady for camp site but the beds in reception did not seem to be moving as we banged on the door so headed off into town for some wine shopping in Caerrfor and breakfast of pain au chocolate and apricot juice left over from Turkey…. Beautiful!!!!

Lady was up by the time we got back to campsite so setteled up and hit the road once again….. Only about 150 miles to Calais, not too shabby. The roads were dead but the rain was so heavy we almost sailed to the ferry terminal…..

We arrived early, there was a little issue, over the last 18 days we had managed to misplace the ticket so had to sweet talk the lady into letting us onto the ferry but she succumbed to our designer stubble and trendy dishevelled looks and let us through and put us on an earlier sailing.

Crossing was fairly uneventful and time seemed to fly (or sail) and before we knew it we could see the white cliffs of Dover….. We were home!!

All in all we have had an amazing 2 and a half weeks and both have really enjoyed it…… to sum up……

Countries visited 13
Capital cities visited 8
Different beds slept in 9
Meals cooked 0
Miles covered approx 5,800
Hours driving approx 95
Number of boat trips 5
Arguments 0
Encounters with police 3 (inc. one false alarm)
Wicked sound track listens 8
Near death experiences 5 (all due to external factors)

Arrived back in London at 3.30pm. Thanks to everyone who has read and posted comment on the blog. Pencils will be dispatched ASAP!!

Just in cast you were having trouble with yesterdays TLA abriviated sentence, here are some clues…..

CBs Cool Beans From a colleague sam worked with in bristol
GKs Goodness Knows From wicked soundtrack
W Whatever From little Britain (Vicki
JO Jog On From Baz
YISE You is something else From Little Britain (fight fighters)
NtS Not too shabby From Adam Sandler (Hanukah song)
HaF Had a Few From Andrew and Sam’s dictionary of life
RaT Rough as toast From Jacki Smith (Sainsbury’s, polite version)
URish Utter Rubbish From twin town
PtB Posted the Blog From the modern English language!
HtR Hit the road A common phrase!

After our extensive travel experience across the continent we would be more than happy to undertake some private bookings for our lecture and comprehensive slide show entitled “Planning a holiday for dummies”. Rates are cheap, all you need to do is cook us dinner (as we have forgotten how) and provide accommodation if you are outside the M25 or if there is a complementary bottle of wine with dinner. (This is recommended to get a true flavour of the trip!)