Up early because we’ve got a 0950 booking on the Chunnel,
taking us back to the UK. Nice and sunny again, little to do so we got away
promptly but then had to hang around for our booked train; obviously no room on
the earlier one we were actually in time for. Never mind.
Usual smooth efficient crossing and emerged to a continuance
of the nice weather, which is a bit unusual for us. We’re travelling up to St
Neots for a couple of days, to meet Colin & Tina then go on to the
Peterborough show, so first call was at Tesco in Ashford. It’s so nice to be
able to fully understand the labels…..
Then onto the mad house that is the British motorway system,
but at least there were no holdups although they haven’t got the Dartford
crossing sorted yet. We’ve booked into the Caravan & Camping Club site at
St Neots so using the coordinates Colin gave us we sallied forth – only to be a
little surprised when TomTom directed us up the M11; would have thought the A1
was better. But we decided something was definitely not right when we started
heading towards Newmarket so a quick stop and check revealed the obvious of
course – input the cords wrong. Got that sorted, then the site wasn’t there
when we got to our “destination” – it was 100 yards away, but unfortunately
there was a wood and a river in the way….. A slight backtrack and “let’s follow
that caravan” got us there finally.
Checked in, got parked up on a nice sunny pitch with an
empty one alongside (for Colin & Tina) and had a late lunch. The rest of
the day was a sort-out, clean-up and service Bertie before relaxing in the hot
sunshine. Yes, in the UK! We’d sent it on ahead of us.
Wednesday saw us up surprisingly early, for no apparent
reason, so we just bumbled about. At lunchtime the site started filling up,
mostly with people doing the same as us (getting in place for the Peterborough
show), and we had to chase a couple off the adjacent pitch before Colin &
Tina turned up early afternoon. After lots of chatting we got tea from the
visiting fish and chip van, then back to the chatting! We don’t need an early
start tomorrow because it’s only half an hour to Peterborough.
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