Another day of driving but we made it back in one piece and at a reasonable time, about 18.00. The M1/M6 route wasn’t too bad and the quality of the driving was rather high for a change. Unfortunately the long, long section of variable speed limit and SPECS were quite draining. Around the M26/25 there was a considerable section of 60 limit with signs talking about congestion on one the least densely packed motorway of our journey. No roadworks, no problems, no hold ups. Some might say ‘well, it worked’ but it looked completely unnecessary.
Stopped off at Manor Farm in Catthorpe again. This time it was to pick up some dinner (and some nice supplies). A couple of pies, bacon, burgers, cake and beer. All local, homemade etc. Had a lovely chat with the girl on the checkout so it appears that even some of our local 16 year olds are lovely, intelligent and articulate.
This adds to our haul of goodies. On the way to Calais we stopped off at an Auchan supermarket and Pen picked up some nine bottles of red wine. Most were less than 4€ and a couple were only 1€80. So we’ll have to see what the quality is like 🙂
So this concluded France 2014. Hope you’ve enjoyed it.
We might be putting up a summary of our conclusions, for future reference.
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