Monthly Archives: April 2023

Various important points made themselves rather clear on this trip.

Hmmm. This post should have been describing a day spent making our way from Angoulême in France to San Sebastián in Spain but life has a habit of throwing curveballs when one least suspects it. Dorothy has been experiencing a … Continue reading →

It’s been a gentle, uneventful day after a night spent tossing and turning wondering whether it was fair on the dogs to travel so far. Having reached Rouen it was still only a relatively short hop back to Calais whereas … Continue reading →

We’re safely ensconced in the Ibis budget hotel Rouen Nord which is a little grim but takes dogs and has all the necessary creature comforts with little of the desirable getting in the way. The day started normally enough with … Continue reading →

It’s been an odd sort of day. We’re leaving fairly early tomorrow to catch the 14:20 train. We’ll need to charge close to the train station in order to make it to the Ibis Hotel Rouen Nord where we and … Continue reading →

We’ve picked up the necessary paperwork for the dogs. It turned out to be a very painless experience, a 30 minute interview with the vet simply going through the forms he’d already prepared and a transfer of £149 from our … Continue reading →

It’s Monday, 3rd April and we leave on Wednesday 12th. We’re going to drive to Folkestone, pick up the eurotunnel train and assuming all goes to plan, arrive in Calais some 35 minutes later. We’ve a trip to Havant arranged … Continue reading →