I've made it through the tunnel!!

my dad packing the car at 6 am in the morning
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well...after a bit of a restless night in Ashford...see separate review...oh by the way I'd give it a 3 bones rating...they were friendly but it was too hot in the room for furry beasts!

Anyway we left this morning bright and early...we chased a couple of rabbits round the hotel garden before we left with poor mum chasing after us and hissing in a strange quiet voice about waking up other people...who cares I ask myself?

they were friendly in Ashford...but it was too hot in the room for furry beasts!

westie boys at the Holiday inn in ashford
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Anyway after a quick snack of chicken from the cooler we were bundled in and off we went. We arrived at the Channel Tunnel at 7am and encountered our first queue of the day. You have to either punch in your booking reference into the machines at the entrance or buy your ticket. Lots of people seemed rather confused..I think sometimes humans develop too much technology on the pretext of it going quicker when  in fact it doesn't!

Anyway we got through and before we knew it we were driving onto the Eurotunnel train. It was so exciting that Angus fell instantly asleep. I though there might be lots to see but in fact there is nothing to see at all apart from the odd bit of fun watching people trying to get through the air lock doors to go into another carriage to go and relieve themselves...why??? its only a 30 min journey...even I can hold on that long!!

Angus and I in front of some traditional Oast houses in Kent
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Anyway off we go and decide we are going to Fontainbleau on the SW side of Paris first. My dad wants to 'connect' with a grey headed woodpecker...fat chance of that. The queues on the road were absolutely horrendous and what should have taken us just over 3 hours took us 7 !!

So we abandoned that plan and drove straight to Orleans.........