Monday, August 25, 2008

Homeward bound

We had allowed planty of time to get to the ferry, but the motorway was shut outside Delft which we tried to avoid but were redirected back to it a couple of times. Turning off the crap nav we tried to follow the road sides, but they were intermittent at best. After nearly an hour tempers were rising and anxiety levels were up.

Helpfully though someone (mention no names) had programmed in Hoek and not Hoek van Holland, which are two separate places and by the time we found helpful road signs we were only 20km away and bang on time! I even had time to fill up with LPG at the fabntastic rate of .675 Euros (about 46p a litre). We would even have had time to stock up at a supermarket, except they were shut.

The crossing was long and boring, broken by a visit to the on board cinema and the new Will Smith movie, Hancock.

As we neared England the sun was shining over the Badlands of Essex. Home again.

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