Day 2 – to Nevele, Belgium

I’m travelling through Folkestone as to my reckoning it’s a lot easier and cheaper when with the dog. Any ferries longer than 5 hours require that you book a cabin, which in the high season is rarely available, and priced highly. Even the Harwich – Holland ferry is a cabin, so the tunnel works best.

Usually.

The last weekend put me on alert though, so I had a plan to travel down to Folkestone yesterday and stay over at the rugby club, if there was as much queuing on the M20. But it had eased, and my journey down was as it always is, just two and a half hours from Brill.

A very efficient collection of the dog’s certificate to travel (now down priced to £69) and at the terminal just after midday.

Just as it passes fleetingly through the mind that it may be possible to get across earlier, a train encounters ‘a problem’ in the tunnel and there is a 90 minute delay. I had been prepared for much worse though, so to disembark at 6 pm, I was quite happy with.

By 7:30 pm I was in Nevele, where I stopped back in March. Campervan parking at the Sports Hall, perfectly quiet, and a very decent bar just a kilometre or so away across the canal.

A La Chouffe and a Chimay Blue certainly signify the relax mode.