Friday 11 April 2008

Day 2: Unpacking - Port des Minimes, La Rochelle

Friday started very early for me at 4.30 am to catch the Saint Malo ferry back to the UK to return our hire van. I managed the 4 hour drive quite successfully with only a minor detour on the Nantes ring road and manage to arrive in time to upgrade to a day cabin. I spent the rest of the day sleeping before arriving into Portsmouth on a lovely sunny evening at 6.30 UK time, passing the majestic HMS Warrior where we are getting married in Augst on the way, which was a lovely welcome back. Yet more horrendous M6 driving followed this time in torrential rain and still amazing busy raod up to arriving home at 11.30pm. Ready for another 3.30am start to collect Alex and fly back out! We must be mad!
Kevin meanwhile set to on finishing the unpacking and starting on our kitting out jobs. At 3pm, our friends Ashley and Laura had arrived and rescued him from a 7am start to work and still not as much as breakfast! They all went off to the supermarket for provisioning, including bedding for Ash & Laura so they could stay a a few days.

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