Return to the UK
Trip Start
Aug 25, 2008
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Trip End
Oct 28, 2008
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Portsmouth,
England,
United Kingdom
Friday, October 10, 2008
We have caught the ferry from Le Harve to Portsmouth it was a lot easier than driving up to Calais and it saved another over night hotel and as Linda would say I'm a tight Yorkshireman typical!
Very smooth ferry ride that got us back to the UK about 10pm then we had to unload from the ferry and clear immigration, they were checking to see if we had a dozen illegal immigrants in the pannier bags.
Then about 1030 pm we started the 300km drive back to Sheffield. It felt strange at first being on the wrong side of the road but as it was late the roads were not busy.
No problems heading north up the centre of England, a stop for fuel about 1230 then onto the motorway, I noticed that on the last leg Linda had gone still.
About 130am we reached Sheffield then Linda told me she had been asleep for the last part, very smooth bike the BMW ( and no Heinz I was not too slow!)
So we have safely made it back to our starting point and all in one piece after 4000 miles or about 6500km.
The bike is just great and we will be sorry to see it go but that was the plan, anyone want to buy a bike?
One of the things we had was a Tom Tom GPS that communicated via bluetooth to my helmet so I could hear directions, what a fantastic piece of equipment it made life very easy and allowed me to concentrate on the road instead of a map.
That is despite what linda thinks about me sight seeing!
Well that concludes the bike journey we will up date a finale when we get home.
See you and we hope our ramblings were not too bad.
Linda & Paul
