Mini Cruise to France

Pole position on the car deck 

It only cost £12 for both of us to board the Dover-Calais ferry and spend the day cruising the English channel -  provided we did not get off. The cunning plan is for you to fill your car/van/boots with booze - but we do not have the space to do that, so it was just a cheap day out and it felt like we had been abroad! I drove the van round the car deck in Calais and we were in pole position leading the lorries off the boat when we got back to Dover.

Murky day at sea but the weather forecast is 'fine and sunny' tomorrow. When we arrived in Hythe for an overnight stay the sky was clear, the sun was out and so were my shorts, for the first time this year. Its about 20 degrees warmer - unbelievable.

We tried to have a Skype video call to Mark in Dubia in the evening. We could talk and see him OK, but the up-link speed from our campsite in the marshes was not good enough for two way video.

PS We did actually buy one box of wine and a bottle of gin on the boat.