Day 91+ - La Franca to Plymouth

We walked to Colombres station in sticky hot heat, meeting pilgrims who were on their way.
The train amazingly was on time and very slowly wended its way to Santander. It was a picturesque journey of majestic mountains, fast flowing rivers and blue bays. A car journey takes 45 mins, the train took over 2 hours!! It moved very slowly indeed.
Once in Santander we found a lunchtime deal of 3 courses for €14.
Then onto the sea terminal and a 3 hour wait to embark on the ferry home. A nervous 3 hours as we were slightly over our 90 days and we wondered what may happen at passport control 😳🤔.
We saw the ferry sail in and all the incoming passengers disembark, including a large school party of teenagers who had emotional reunions with their parents after an English residential.
Eventually it was our turn to embark onto the ferry, rucksacks through the scanner and thankfully us safely through passport control with no arrests 😅.
To Simon’s delight the ferry ⛴️ was half empty so there was plenty of room and space for everyone on board. We to wait awhile for our cabin to be ready as the staff had a huge job to turn this around from the previous passengers.
We explored the boat and enjoyed time on the top deck in the sunshine with a couple of sun downers before heading for some food in the restaurant.
Once the sun was gone we headed to our snug cabin for a good sleep. The thrum of the ships engine, the occasional list were quite soporific.
Mary got up early to try and catch something of the sunrise, however all the decks were being hosed down 💦 so a quick pic and off again.
During breakfast we saw Brest sliding by.
After breakfast we took in a talk on the whales 🐳 and dolphins 🐬 found in that region, we then spent several hours on the lookout 👀.
Sadly they weren’t coming out to play on this occasion!
We spotted England coming into view from 1.30pm. Then it was time clear out of the cabin and watch Plymouth come clearly into view.
We were in at 3.30 and off the boat, through English passport control by 4.
It was lovely to be met by my brother Frank and his partner’s daughter George. They got a lovely photographic record of our homecoming.
And so our journey is at an end and this is our final blog. Thank you for sharing our adventures, we have loved your encouragement, comments and interest in our Camino adventures.Читать далее