Long day of travel today - leaving Honfleur to go to Calais for the ferry trip to UK. Haven't been able to get an accurate weather forecast for the next couple of days. We are hoping it will stay calm for the ferry crossing. Calais - and its blowing up a storm. Looks like the ferry trip may be a bit on the rough side. Got to the passport control booths before we boarded the ferry. For some reason our line is moving really slowly (a bit like the checkouts at a s...

Paris to Calais - about 3 hours drive. the weather looks good for the day so we should be there in good time. Quite a long trip, but nothing of significance to report. Being Sunday, when we arrive in Calais everything seems to be closed - not even a cafe for some coffee. The ferry port is quiet also - a few cars, a couple of buses is all.We checked into British customs/border control, had our passports stamped (at LAST, a new stamp in our passports!!).The ferry t...