Folkestone

We are parked up tonight in the car park of The Nailbox pub just outside Folkestone and 10 minutes away from the Eurotunnel terminal. Excellent location with the added bonus of beer!

We left Bingley this morning and cruised down the A1 (we've sacked the M1) before stopping in Hertford to see an old friend Naz, his wife Selina and their lovely daughter Farrah. Eeeh, I remember Naz when he were just a lad with a bad haircut and terrible taste in shoes. Now he's a proper grown up with his own family and a house and all the trimmings!!

Tomorrow we catch the 8.20 Eurotunnel bound for, ultimately, Greece but before that we'll be spending a night on our new mattress. We ordered it as soon as we returned from our last trip, the one that came with the van was foam and a little tired and uncomfortable so we went for a top of the range sprung job on the basis that we'd be spending a lot of time on it and we deserved something comfy. Delivery was guaranteed for last week but that didn't happen however we were promised it would arrive yesterday by courier. We were panicking a bit and when I received a phone call yesterday morning to tell me they had missed the courier on Friday I was about to explode until they said that they had hired a van and the MD was bringing the mattress over personally. Sure enough a couple of hours later the mattress arrived and it fits perfectly, I think we'll have a good nights sleep tonight.

No pictures today but I'm sure we'll remedy that tomorrow when we drive through a little bit of France and on to our first stop in Belgium.

Pat

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