Devall Travels

And away we go. Reggie dropped off at Wyncot nice and early and I filled the tank at Tesco before heading to the Shuttle. The Insignia managed 40.0 mpg on the last tank. With no long journeys and just local driving I had hoped for better. We arrived at 1010 and didn't get an earlier crossing. Our 1120 crossing had been re-timed to 1119!! They might as well have re-timed to 1136 as that's when we wheezed out of Folkestone. Eurotunnel maintains its 100% record of leaving late when I am paying to travel. posted from Bloggeroid

Booked today.  Cost £64 for the car on top of the Assen MotoGP trip fare that I had parked with them after we couldn't go. To accommodate taking Reggie to the kennels for the weekend on Friday morning I have booked 28/9 1120 out and 1/10 1750 back. As we will be back too late to go and get him on the Monday I have Tuesday leave as well and so I can go and get him in the morning.

Sadly the lack of wifi for most of the trip meant I was unable to keep posting and so instead here's a summary and a few pictures will be added later. Day 1 Part 2 In the end they loaded us on a train and then announced that it had a problem and was being fixed? Why you have to ask do they load a train that has problems? In the end we arrived in France 75 minutes later than planned. That meant that we missed lunch and instead carried on a bit further. We stopped at Baie de la Somme again and Reggie had a walk about and his usual widdle stops and we had a coffee. Progress along the Paris avoidance route was successful but it was gone 7pm before we rolled up at the Campanile near Orléans.  In time to check in and give Reggie his late dinner before he and us went for ours. We opted for the buffet and Reggie lay under the table. Amazingly dog friendly.  Day 2 Up and away quite early after breakfast.  The plan to ...