Day 6 - Orleans to Calais...

woke up not feeling quite as bad as we have on other days...

jib sent out to pick up breakfast, before he gets grumpy. Takes some pictures of Orleans, including nice church

And statue of Joan of Arc (Orleans was her birthplace)

Also finds a protest (those Frenchies love a protest)

Gav now rigged up with iPod, can it get better than this... Sadly Gav's ipod requires much faffing about everytime we set off.

here's Gav faffing:




















and here he is 5 minutes later... faffing

still faffing...

So amazingly the rain has stopped, gav is now super jolie, but jibba is now complaining about something (Gav's faffing mostly)

travel through orleon and on to Paris, cock up the directions and end up on le peripherique, nightmare, jib getting more and more stressed with the tomtom making up strange directions and losing gps at crucial moments

out of Paris head towards Amiens, get off peage and have cracking little spurt on some country lanes, with the sun beating down. big smiles all round.

get to boulogne - get followed by some big gendarmes on motorbikes for a while, eventually mange to shake them off

find coast road from boulogne to calais - awesome. This is the sort of thing that we should have spent the last week doing. winding roads, hugging the coastline with barely a car in sight

Gav is happy. Jib is happy. A very good last hour indeed...

Now time for one last French meal and what better way to finish the trip off that with Steak Tartare followed by Moules et Frites...

Due on the 10am ferry the next morning, we decide Calais hasn't got much to offer and feeling like champions, go for the 11pm ferry and aim to finish the trip tonight. frantic rush, almost got on wrong ferry, get pulled over by customs and jib has his boot checked for PEOPLE!!!!

Ferry: caught
France: done

Family guy on iPad for crossing. Almost there:

Coffee & petrol then on the road again...

Arrive at St Lawrence Terrace at 2am, in time to see who will be running our country...

Quote of the day:
Jib: if it hadn't been for all your faffing we could have made it Cape Town and back
Gav: Fuck off and stop moaning
Tune of the day: Bill Withers 'lovely day'
Gupdate: happy happy happy. not grumpy or moany at all.