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Day 22: Buysscheure to Home

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Last day, just a short run up to Calais and then the Eurotunnel home. I visited the Auchan hypermarket at St Omer and bought a few essentials.

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Enough money had been taken off me by Italian and French tolls so I decided to take the D (Departmental) roads back to Calais to go toll free.

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I stopped in a layby to empty the water tank in a bid to get the weight down as I planned to blow the last of my Euro’s at Calais on beer and bubbly 🙂

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A quick visit to Leader Price in Calais to buy some ballast for the van was followed by a run to the Eurotunnel check in, I was well over two hours early but decided to chance my luck.

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I managed to get the 18:20 swapped to 16:36 for no charge, a good result!

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Unfortunately a train had got stuck in the tunnel so we had to wait nearly an hour for it to be extracted. Can’t complain, I was still back an hour early 🙂
So… 3,185 miles later I’ve had enough of travelling and its time to head to the Little Elms for a few pints…

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Day 21: Troyes to Buysscheure

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Last day with any real travelling abroad, most of the journey was spent on the A26 L’autoroute Les Anglais.

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The campsite at Buysscheure is superbly presented and the hosts made a fuss of me and the van as soon as I got there. As well as the sizeable restaurant, it boasts a swimming pool and even a small fishing lake.
It’s just a shame I wasn’t staying for.more than one night.

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Tomorrow is Bastille Day in France and I’m not expecting very much to be open. Might try and track down a Leader Price supermarket and top up my allowance of French beer. They have on offer a 10 pack of “Burgbier” for €2.09 🙂
Last leg tomorrow, off to Calais for the Eurotunnel at 18:20, then home to a large pile of washing. I hope the Little Elms has plenty of beer in for me 🙂