The wind in the night was shaking our tent and we awoke for the first time to grey skies, it must be time to go home. We left early having to change our departure port to Dunkirk. The roads were quick and easy but as soon as we hit the DFDS terminal there were long queues. We thought we could automatically get on to the next available ferry but we were diverted back to the office to change our tickets and opted to pay extra to get on the next ferry rather than c...

Half a bottle of cough mixture consumed and I managed to sleep a bit better. Not cough free but at least I didn't abandon the tent. We are a bit indecisive where to go today, so started researching and now have found out that DFDS have suspended Calais to Dover sailings and we will have to go Dunkirk to Dover. Are the roads to Dunkirk going to be congested ? Shall we stay nearer Dunkirk? Toll roads or non toll roads? We kept changing our mind but set off and ...

We had a leisurely start to the day and gradually packed up and bade farewell to Irene and Gerry knowing we probably would not see their house in France again. As lovely as it is the steep steps and drive are not so practical for those in their eighties and nineties and they I'll probably have to move soon.We hit the motorway and then turned off towards Le Puys which took us through hilly, windy roads , the scenery was lovely but it was quite a long journey. ...

When daylight woke me I was pleasantly surprised it was 7am. I returned to the tent for a lie in while Graham went in search of bread and milk. After a while I began to get worried that he had got lost but nobody could lose our campsite there is a huge volcanic rock outside, he must have been kidnapped! . After 40 minutes he through a baguette over the fence and disappeared again still in search of milk. A good job we hadn't planned an early start. Eventually...

Unfortunately my tickly cough had gone to laryngitis and now developed into a cough which is worse at night so last night I could escape into another room to have a good cough in the middle of the night instead of wandering around the campsite. It's amazing how you can survive with so little sleep and be ready for another day in the hot sun. After breakfast on the veranda we decided the French thing to do was to go to a local winery to buy some wine . We tri...