Up at 6.00am, just gettig light, after a very quiet night alone in the car park! Cold, not quite a frost, but clear with the promise of a nice day. A quick cuppa and snack before tidying up and then to the Eurotunnel noting the rtoads were quite busy even at this early hour. First off Pet Passport then checkin where we were allocated an earlier train. The place was deserted and French customs not interested, apart from stampng the passports. UK Immigration did a full van check, probably to give them something to do, and round to boarding where we had to wait a few minutes before proceeding onto the train.
35 minutes later we pulled into Folkestone and being the second vehicle in line were off quickly. Unfortunately our arrival coincided with the unloading of a freight shuttle and for much of the M20 we had to contend with lots of foreign registered trucks. We went straight to the services area, now changed from Stop24, for our usual full English before going along to Tesco in Ashford for a fuel top-up, which we think was actually more expensive than in France!
Not much to say abou the trip north; the M25 was reasonably quiet being mid-morning and we made excellent progress, getting right up to Peterborough services before needing a stop. Roadworks still ongoing at Darrington slowed us down a bit then Jamie wanted out so we dropped into Ferrybridge and had a latish lunch. We managed to catch the A1 Western Bypass, where we'd hoped the roadworks had been completed but weren't, and the start of the rush hour so it was a bit slow. Arrived home at 5.20pm.
A quick cuppa then mostly got Bertie unloaded ready for cleaning and a few running repairs over the weekend. Have to say that, apart from the breakdown in Portugal which was just one of those things, the van has been performing very well indeed so a bit of TLC is now warranted. He's got his mojo back!
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