Friday 11th November 2020 to Thursday 17th December 2020
Sadly Julie’s Mum passed on Friday morning. Barbara was a wonderful person, if everyone was as good and kindhearted as she was the world would be a far far better place.
Julie & her Mum
Early on Saturday morning we set off from Luz to head back to the UK…
we were in Spain by lunchtime.
Howo hardo cano learningo Spanisho beo?
It was a pretty uneventful trip up through Spain & France.
Spain
France
Cfor loves exploring the Vignobles Pestoury vineyard in Yvrac
Tuesday was a little tough as we had to do Bordeaux to Calais in a single day because at this time of year there are no French campsite open en-route and I really didn’t fancy being the only van on an aire.
I was a little concerned by the stuff I’d read in the papers about the delays getting into the port of Calais so, not wishing to run out of diesel while I queued up, I filled up just before the port but the horrendous queues reported by the Guardian and eagerly repeated by the Daily Mail never materialised. Quelle surprise.
Where did the 10 mile 5 hour queues go?
We knew we were back in England with the night time closures on the A2 and M20; the trip from Dover to the M25 was an absolute fuckin’ nightmare. Exactly the same as it was back in February!!!!
When you look at the infrastructure in place in and around the port of Calais then look at the shambles around Dover it’s a bit of a national embarrassment; the whole place is just shit and Brexit deal or no Brexit deal there is bound to be chaos in Kent come 1st January.
Back at Julie’s flat Thursday was the 1st day of 10 days quarantining and I got stuck right into Wheeler Dealers 😀