Foreign Perspectives

Whilst the trip out to France seemed like a rather long trek at the time, the trip back was considerably shorter thanks to rethinking of the route and being able to be more organised before our departure.

Thanks to the courtyard we were able to space out the packing of the trailer over a week or so and managed to fit so much stuff into it that we’re still trying to find places to put it all over here! Funnily enough, the trailer wasn’t nearly as heavy as I’d been expecting that it would be which in turn meant that we were able to make much better progress on the motorway than expected.

This time around we’d one stopped at Clermont-Ferrand which was around the half-way mark and not quite so far along as we’d planned initially (thanks to a very, very late departure). The second day it was straight on to the ferry at Le Havre for a reasonable crossing to Rosslare. Compared to the alternative of driving all the way up England and then across Scotland this was definitely by far the most relaxing way to go and with a fairly quick Rosslare to Belfast drive at the other end it was overall an easy trip to do.