We stayed near Maidstone and went to visit the Leeds Castle
on our way to London.
Last night we camped in the East London suburbs, today we
had to drive to West London suburbs, Ruislip to be precise. It took us OVER 2 hours to do this mainly in
traffic jams, heavy fog and taking the ring road at central London to avoid the
Congestion charge of £10, passing by Kings Cross and Regent Park.
The camp had warnings out to not leave your footwear outside
as the local fox will steal only one of any pair of shoes left outside. The squirrels were everywhere gathering, then
burying the chestnuts that fell from the trees which we were camped under,
making for great entertainment.
So today we dropped off our nicely cleaned bikes, bike
carrier, tent, and outdoor chairs to the freighters, then we steam cleaned
Mildred at the nearby garage and headed to our camp 20 minutes away.
Daryl, bless his little heart, thought we would spend a few
hours finishing the cleaning and packing our contents….we ended up semi
finishing our jobs in the dark! It took
ages to remove each wheel, clean the wheel, suspension, chassis, etc before moving
to the next one. Also our gear had to
be packed, and itemised for Customs documents.
We used a hairdryer to dry out the poptop canvas and still have our sun
canopy to dry out, due to the fog that London is currently experiencing (wouldn’t
it be a bugger if our plane home was cancelled due to fog!)
Now we have a short list of jobs in the morning, our final
load of washing is now in the dryer and it’s nearly 10pm.
It will be another early start in the morning to finish our
jobs and get Mildred back to the freighters all stiflingly clean and shiny by
9am. Then we will take the tube to our
Hotel in Paddington, coming back on Friday to supervise Mildred’s
containerisation and departure from London.
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