We both
slept well with the benefit of a good bed.
The shower should have been good but it kept falling down! We chose to have breakfast in the hotel which
was rather pricey (€10 each) for what it was.
Muffin
had obviously had enough of all the driving and was very whiny. We had to stop three times for him – just in
case and I have to say that twice he did need a poo!
I was
trying to finish my Tesco delivery order while we were driving along and was getting
very frustrated with it as it seemed to have two orders on the go – one with a
delivery slot and the other without.
Once I realised this, I just deleted the wrong one and it then became
easier.
As we got
to the outskirts of Paris, we took a wrong turning which turned out to be a
very good mistake. We were in a tunnel
which was part of A86 and is the world's longest urban motorway tunnel (6¼
miles of continuous tunnel), which was opened in two parts in 2009 and 2011.
The tunnel is limited to a height of 6 ft 7 ins and commercial vehicles, as a
result, are prohibited. There was hardly
any traffic in it which made things so much easier. There is one junction in the tunnel which we
needed to take which brought us out onto the A13. I’m not sure if it was quicker or not but it
was a lot less hassle!
It didn’t
seem to take long to get to the outskirts of Le Havre. Richard saw a gantry sign which said
something about a road closure and then suddenly Google maps was directing us
down a side road. We didn’t do that
which was a mistake as I guess it was trying to reroute us as we were soon
stuck in a queue where two lanes were merging into one then we were all being
turned round onto the other carriageway.
I let Google take us and it was going so well until we were stopped in
another queue, this time it appeared to be a train track across the road. We sat there for about 10 minutes before
people started to turn round by going over the central reservation so we followed
suit.
We
arrived at the ferry port exactly 90 minutes before our departure time (we have
to do 90 minutes because of the dog). We
checked in and were signalled to go straight onto the ferry – we have never had
that before. We were in our cabin within
a few minutes and then suddenly we were leaving – 35 minutes early! I’m not sure why – I just assume everyone who
was booked was on board.
The
crossing was very easy and calm. I
stayed in the cabin with Muffin but Richard, old itchy pants, couldn’t sit
still!!
We
arrived into Portsmouth at about 9pm and, with so few cars on board, we were
soon off and by 9.15pm we were on our way home.
274 miles
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