And so we begin....

So far all is going to plan, we arrived late Sunday to London, took the tube to our freighters on Monday and re-packed Mildred.  Apparently London had had 3 weeks of rain, but the sun shone for us as we loaded Mildie up.

It was so good to see her!

Tuesday we collected her, filled with fuel GBP 85, got groceries and headed south towards Dover.  Mildred was running like a bag fill of shit, with the stale NZ fuel on the Monday, however by the time we got onto the A40 she was purring along very nicely.

Our first camp night was in Densole, a small town (village?) near Dover.  Camping is different here, maybe it’s too early in the season, as all other campers seem to be retired folk, they all sit in their campers or caravans, cook in them, eat, etc with maybe one chair outside of a few.  Whereas we have tables, chairs, bbq, bikes etc scattered about our site and only go inside our kombi to sleep.

 Can’t believe how friendly everyone is, they’d all talk the leg of a donkey.

Went for a MOT in Dover, website made it out to be a huge business, it was a back street, overcrowded premises with no room to swing a cat.  But we got our MOT.

Now it’s off to get our cooking gas and we are already for our Eurotunnel trip tomorrow.  We wonder if we will be making history and being the first NZ reg vehicle on the Eurotunnel.   And I am to join the mile low club – if there is one.

I think we are changing our plans and heading south through France into Spain and Portugal first, instead of north to Denmark – the weather is dictating the change as it’s quite cool here at the moment.