Day 67 - almost home

Day 67 - our last full day away….
I have really mixed feelings about going home - I miss my bed, my friends and vegetables…. but going home means it’s closer to the end of an amazing year off work and doing pretty much whatever I want to do.

Anyway - back to today. The Horse sleepover place was really quiet, I should have slept well but Marla was being a bit of a pickle. She was drooling more than normal, so we didn’t want her sleeping on the bed with us, but every 10 mins or so I could hear her get up off her own bed and walk to ours and wait to be invited up, and if she didn’t hear anything from us she sort of tippy taps her feet. About midnight she gave up asking permission and launched herself on the bed - she’s a big lump when she wants to be and I didn’t have the energy to fight her, so I let her stay.

We woke up about 7am, it was cool and a bit misty this morning. I took Marla out for a quick business walk and it was still just us, another motorhome and a caravan there for the night.

Breakfast and coffee done, we took Marla for a bit of a walk around the field as we knew it was going to be a longer than normal driving day.

We headed off about 11am to the closest petrol station and supermarket for some fuel and fresh bread. We hit the road not long after, heading up to Calais but having to take a longer route around Rouen as there’s a low emission zone in place and we hadn’t applied for the permits before leaving home.

We stopped about 1pm for lunch, it was cheese and bread - we needed to finish off all the stinky cheese we had left in the fridge. I had found a bag of my new favourite crisp flavour in the supermarket yesterday, Cheese Naan, so we had those as well. We did the washing up and then headed off again - love a van picnic!

The motorway today is very quiet indeed. Most trucks aren’t allowed to drive on Sundays, and it really makes a difference to the volume of traffic. We spent most of the journey on our own, just being overtaken every now and again. It probably made a difference that we were on toll roads most of today. It cost around £66 in total, the most expensive being the stretch from Le Mans up towards Rouen, that was £45!

We were planning on stopping about 4pm to let Marla eat, then waiting before carrying on as the reception of the next place doesn’t open til 5, but if we drove straight through, we were going to arrive at 5 on the dot - so thought it would be best to just plough on and Marla could hate us for delaying her dinner - but she would get over it quickly.

This site is a bit odd, there are quite a few static caravans and car park type spaces for campervans / motorhomes but it feels like we are just behind someone’s house. There’s basic facilities (no toilet paper!) and one of the toilets is out of action completely,

We whipped up a quick dinner of pesto pasta and flageolet beans.

A relaxing evening listening to podcasts and I did a bit of crochet.

We have an early start tomorrow so it’ll be bedtime very shortly for us (it’s not quite 9pm at the moment!)Leggi altro