My last week = Birmingham to Reading (120 miles), Reading to Dover (200 miles), Calais to Lille (100 miles), around Lille (about 50 miles), Lille to Calais (100 miles), Dover to Reading (200 miles), Reading to Birmingham (120 miles), Birmingham to Manchester (100 miles). Total = about 1000 miles of driving! Not bad for a week!
The story starts before France when I arrived at my good friend Ina's house, with the plan of cooking him a lovely meal. The pork and cider casserole (recipe coming when I perfect it!) left plenty of cider to drink and the scene was set for a perfect seduction! (news = I have a new man!)
So after a stupidly late night and an even more stupidly early morning, we arrived at Dover quarter of an hour before our ferry was due to leave, only to find it had been delayed by half and hour! Typical French!
I spent most of the ferry journey attempting to sleep unsuccessfully while I prepared myself for driving on the wrong side of the road, and more of Ina's appalling map reading! (we had a half an hour detour to Gatwick on our way from Reading to Dover, while we were on a pretty tight time schedule!)
Luckily the ferry had a supply of mini snickers bars to keep me going!
More to come later when I've done some revision!
Saturday, 22 March 2008
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