We left home at around 0700hrs, I like to be early for the ferry just in case!!!, and lucky we did. The traffic lights were out on the A3/M25 junction and this caused a 20 minute delay, a great start.o n the way to Dover we saw many cars with English Flags but did not realise that most of them were heading for Dover like us until we got close, the last mile took almost 35 minutes and so we actually arrived on time. A very misty Channel Crossing on the Seafrance boat we arrived in Calais around 1400 hrs local time. We headed south on the A16 so as to get out of the environs of Calais and Boulogne and stayed on the motorway until we reached Abbeville.
Whilst on the motorway to Abbeville we went past a group of about 6 Morgan Cars and two Porsche, we think they were heading for Le Mans where the 24 hour race will take place next weekend. We left the motorway and blow me five minutes later the Morgans turned up behind us again. So we pulled in to let them go and five minutes later they turned up again behind us, we assume they had got lost at least twice.
We pulled in to this very attractive town called Aumale and although is was still a bit early to fix Hotel arrangements we came upon a nice historic hotel, one of the Logis De France chain, which was quite nice and so we decided to stay the night.
We did a walking tour of the town and took a few pictures. We came across a Circus Group who are visiting the town complete with Lions, Zebras, Bison, Llama and Camels and some others that we could not see in the cages. We do not like to see wild animals being kept in this continual state of transit and so decided we would not go but enjoy dinner in the Hotel instead.
The opening ceremony of the Football World Cup was on TV and so for a short time we watched and were a bit concerned about the German Football team wearing lederhosen?? They kept on slapping their Adidas shoes, I guess in anger or chasing flies.
Well that’s it for tonight as the bar will open soon..
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