Day 43 We squeezed into a matchbox!

St Margaret’s on the Cliffe Hotel Room 3

So up and packed a call to Mum and dad as mum was going to hospital or so I thought, turns out she had gone in last night....So a chat to dad, Kate and James as he was there, then a call to Jess for her birthday! But no luck she was busy, so a message left, all our gear packed ready to go, as we were to be picked up to get our lease car.. So after Room breaky again, down we go to meet the guy...

He zoomed in quick hello, we plied unto the car and off we speed in our Left hand drivers side, Renault Clio black and dirty +++++, he said sorry it got dirty in 2 days sitting there... hmmmmm! We raced into his office John signed the paperwork, the guy said have a good trip and that was that... ohh then a John had to ask him about the Nav, that was brief as well... plus we are by Law for Europe to have a safety kit with the car, a high vis jacket, 2 red triangles, a breathalyser machine and spare bulbs for the car, you can be booked if you have a car failure or the police pull you up and you don’t have these items in your car or on display if you do break down..All the guy had was a high vis jacket and he wouldn’t have given us that either except John asked....

So in we got, John had to have a quick crash course on the Nav to get us back to our hotel.... we made it back in one piece surprisingly. I kept telling myself stay calm, stay calm.... Once we got back to the hotel we realised it had only 12 K’s on the Speedo, very new right off the floor and all ours for 5 months...

Now we are back the packing of the car/matchbox commenced.... we did manage to squeeze it all in just.... having had the other car we were very spoilt, indeed... This one is slow low to the ground, and everything feels so close, but the more we play with it the more we see it has some good features.... just can’t squeeze anymore Space out of her than she has.....off to fill it and take her through the car wash as it was totally filthy.....

Now all clean off we set, taking the first turn wrong at the round about, but thank goodness for Navs she got us back in track in fact the wrong turn was probably better...not as busy and as many turns to get to the M4....

This Hwy is full on with trucks, both right hand and left hand drive... all seemed to be heading to Dover to go across the channel... interesting and Scary feeling like you might be squashed between them all....

A bite to eat at a road service centre p, a chat with Sel about our pool pump issues, then into the last leg...

Getting close to Dover the speed limit went down to 40mph and the sheer amount of trucks was unreal.... 100’s all bumper to bumper lined up to go to the ships lined up in the Dover Harbour... plus seeing the white cliffs of Dover again, was amazing it’s 18 yrs since we were here heading to Calis in the Ferry with our European bus trip in 2000.....

Then we got totally lost trying to find our hotel, an hour later after turning up at another one I knew wouldn’t be ours it looked too posh... she at least directed us to the Holiday park we had been last a couple of times thinking there’s no way it would be in there... but it was... a very old Hotel in the middle of a mobile home park, just heaps of them and many for sale.... John found out that it was like a time share place where you buy the mobile home and rent them out... Looks like a lot of them have only been placed here not long ago, some very new some not so new.... it’s like a holiday park set up with an indoor pool, gym, games arcade, the pub in the middle... Boards around telling people the weeks activities...
Not only are there mobile homes but heaps of older brick units that look like people live permanently in them....Interesting spot, certainly isn’t what we thought we were coming to.... we had asked a lady walking her dog earlier when we arrived if she had heard of this hotel, but nope she hadn’t...
No wonder when it’s about 2-3 mike from the town and in the middle of holiday heaven for brits....Read more