Back to the Channel Tunnel, and Home

Thursday 2^nd October

Another disturbed night’s sleep – probably the prospect of going home. We were up at eight and I cooked bacon, eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes to keep us going.

The service point for this aire is about a half mile away from where you park up, so I drove there and waited my turn to empty the tanks. From there we were directed by the satnav to the nearest point for diesel – which was a Super U just on the edge of town. We filled up, and made our way back to Calais. We passed some police on the roundabout near Super U - they were obviously looking for something, as they were stopping cars. We sailed straight through though. 

By the way - back on the 8th September I said that we were running low on toilet fluid - well, I bought some biological washing liquid to give that a go. Whilst it worked in part, I would say that it is no substitute for the real thing, and we will remember to take extra supplies with us next time.

We made good time back to the Tunnel. As we arrived before ten thirty I was given the option of an earlier train – so we went for it, and were sent to line up for the eleven twenty train. We waited about twenty minutes before boarding, and the train left dead on time. Just over twenty five minutes later we were back in England. On the way back we were thinking about our European van trip for next year. K fancies Italy............