Our departure was amazing with over forty cars departing and crowds of people waving us off. Best bit for me was my bestie, Sue, who lives twenty minutes down the road, coming to wave me off. We got to 'sticker bomb' lots of the other cars with our 'range pig' stickers.
Our third overheat breakdown occurred near Gretna Green, incurring crashing through motorway bollards to pull over. Luckily no police men stopped this time as we were all in our fancy dress outfits consisting of Daisy Duke, spider man and the driver and co pilot wearing women's stockings.
Night one was spent in a B&B near Grange Over Sands, the rest of the crew are camping on route. The boys I'm travelling with have chosen to book hotels, which was most welcome in the rainstorm last night. We visited the local pub and I was quite excited to check out the local talent but alas we were the only customers in the pub.
Today we left to travel to Dover, over seven hours of driving in torrential rain and a terrifying moment when the wipers failed in the fast lane. We managed to reach the hard shoulder and blind drive to a service station to repair our wipers. So tomorrow we catch the ferry to France and hopefully will have a smooth journey. Although all this breaking down has been all part of the adventure. So far my favourite 'other' car is the one that has a Tassimo coffee maker installed, I intend
to keep them on favourite frequency on the CB radio...
Departure day...
Making friends on the road...
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