Whilst queuing for the Barcelona to Mahon ferry the dogs attracted quite a lot of attention from the Spanish holiday makers. Especially the family in the car in front of us who were chatting with us for at least 1/2 hour prior to boarding. They were from Girona and were also travelling to Menorca for their holiday. They were telling us about how the Game of Thrones was currently been filmed close to their home. They even ended up being our next door neighbours on...

By the time we fuelled up it was 10:30am before we were back on the A31, heading south for the A9 Lyon. With a full tank of fuel I was sure we would have enough to get us to Cala' n Porter. The scenery kept us entertained as we headed into southern France and the motorway was significantly busier. We were following the River Rhone on our Right, with distant mountain ranges to our left. I was hoping to get 250 mile done before our first stop, but with traffic hol...

Couldn't have wished for a warmer welcome at the Hotel Balladins in Marsanny-La-Cote, Dijon. On arrival the receptionist jumped up and ran around the desk to fuss the dogs. She also had Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, 3 of them! Two identical to Dinky and Toy plus a Ruby coloured dog. The weather had brightened up and the wind had calmed a lot but the temperature was only 16 degrees, a massive decrease from the previous weeks, around 33 degrees! The room was cl...

After a smooth but wet crossing on DFDS Seaways we arrived in Dunkirk at 1pm (French Time). The dogs were fine in the car during the 2 hour crossing and seemed very happy to see us returning to the car. The problems started upon disembarking the ferry! Firstly I was unable to get internet connection on my phone! Resulting in my Waze App ( Sat Nav ) not working! Even the back up TomTom was unable to locate are location due to no satellites in range! We played fol...

We managed to drag ourselves out of bed at 2:15am lol after only having 2 hours sleep!! We scrapped the last things together & off we went leaving the house at 3:10am. We only got to Uttoxeter before we realised that Toy was chewing the AA French road map! The dreaded words " Are we nearly there yet? " were announced by Josh as we passed Newport Pagnell! Then once again as we joined the M25. Then the heavens opened up, all the way down to Dover. A quick sto...