Andover Night sixty four

This morning we wanted to try and get to the train early to see if we could get back home earlier so we were up and leaving the site by 8:30am. We needed to make a phone call to allow us to get out and they gave us a code to open the barrier. Now we were on our way to Pet reception about 15 minutes drive.

After scanning Tucker for his chip and checking his passport we were soon driving around to checkin. We were given the option for the 9:53am train at no additional cost so we accepted this. Our booked time was 11:53am. On to the French border control followed by UK border control and then around to wait for our train. Arriving in the car park it showed that we should go immediately onward to the loading lanes.

We were given our lane and to our surprise we found it was open so straight round to the train which was the 9:35am. We were going to be back in the UK before 9am local UK time. No issues now just straight onto the motorway and home arriving at midday. So strange driving again on the left and so much more traffic.

On arrival we emptied the van of foodstuff and washing leaving things like our bedding to be washed another day. I reviewed the cost of the tolls coming home through France and we have spent €165 which together with fuel, campsite fees and Le Shuttle you wonder whether it was better to take the ferry from Santander if we could. No pet cabins were available for the return journey when I booked the initial crossing from Plymouth.

Final thoughts: It was good to see our Friendfamily in the high Atlas Mountains but was are glad we aren’t there now as Morocco is suffering with floods and snow. Moha has a metre of snow outside his front door in the road.