We left home early afternoon as we were only driving to Lincoln to call on some friends for a couple of days as we missed them on the journey home because of - oh no Kwikfit again.
We had a lovely stay with them and then we drove down to Margate where we had a night in a Travelodge before an early morning ferry the following day to Dunkirk. Sadly we missed our stay with Marion this time as she was holidaying at the time we set off back. Must try harder to co-ordinate the booking system next time!
Thankfully the sea was calm, the crossing good and this meant that Mrs D managed to hang on to the last full English for a while.
We arrived in Dunkirk at 11ish and then we drove down through France for our first nights camp at Verdun. Super camp site and a very old and pretty French town. We were just having the one night in France this time as we were staying a couple of nights in southern Germany near the Tirol region.
The drive to Fussen the following day was a long one but worth it as we found a cracking site just outside Fussen on the shores of a lake. The weather was good and the views from the site superb. The German autobahn is always entertaining, Mercs, Beemers and VWs tanking along at light speed which to us means we need a clear run of about a mile to pass anything due to the load and acceleration of our car. We seemed to manage OK but we did have one or two parked in the boot waiting to get past.
We had two nights in Fussen so we could have a look at the place. It would have been a lovely day had it not been spoiled by the fact we were almost out of camp stove fuel (we both forgot to put this on our mega shopping list in the UK, what a pair of muppets.) We walked miles around Fussen 'til we eventually got some from a garden centre!! The walk to and from Fussen was round the lake where we were camping. The old part of Fussen is beautiful and I think we racked up 20 kilometers that day it was a lovely walk apart from - oh no a call from Kwikfit trying to dig themselves out of the mess they gave us in the UK.
We left earlyish the following day for the drive over the Fern Pass to Innsbruck and the Brenner Pass into Italy then over the Dollies through Cortina and down to Venice for the last camp before the ferry. This time we managed to get in the right lane, miss rush hour in Venice and drove straight to the camp site. An OK site just functional for the ferry and maybe a little bit close to Marco Polo airport runway but we slept OK and were off at 11 the following day into Venice for the ferry.
We arrived at the port and the ferry was in and loading up. We got our tickets and then onto the ferry for the 24 hour crossing. This time in an attempt to save a few bob we decided to rough it in the aircraft seats as we only had a 40 minute journey at the other end to home in Corfu. I have to say it went pretty well even though there was a party of Italian schoolkids sleeping there too. We thought we would be awake all night with their noise but the good old Germans put them straight. Whenever the kids came in they were told in full volume by the Germans that it was a sleeping room and if they wanted to make noise to get out.
We arrived on Corfu 3ish the following day and after a quick bit of shopping we got home around four o'clock to a mega overgrown garden and drive area. Apart from that the house was OK, the weather was good and all was well. We prized everything out of the car dumped it in the office, had a bit of grub and went to bed earlyish. Thankfully a safe and non eventful journey back to Greece.
Pictures above show the car on the site near Fussen - bear in mind all the camping gear went on top of whats already in. The other picture shows the car bursting at the sides just down from Cortina in the Italian Dolomites.
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