Showing posts with label chunnel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chunnel. Show all posts

Monday, December 31, 2018

Going backwards........

I did not have a chance to look at the few photos I took while driving from home to the UK.  Have just looked at them now and decided that there were a few worth posting.
Pont de Brotonne is a bridge in the region of Upper Normandy in France, situated between the cities of Le Havre and Rouen. It has crossed the river Seine since 1977.

Looking over at the bridge after we had crossed it.

Further along the road I just liked these clouds.

The moon was well up at around 5pm.

Not bad for a moving shot through the windscreen with Nigel's little Nikon Coolpix S7000

A little later before we arrived at the B & B at Eslettes.  Very difficult to find in the dark and the SatNav could not pick up the address!!

The next morning at Immigration in Calais.

First car into the Chunnel 😉 and on an earlier one than planned which was good.

and finally in the UK.  This is a pedestrian bridge over the M20.



I have updated my bird blog HERE.

Thursday, January 11, 2018

11/01/2018 Driving back on 28 December. 2017

Today's maximum temperature 10C, minimum 3C.  Rain still on and off I have not checked Nigel's records.  All the rivers and lands are flooded so I am told - I have not been out of the house!
Morning of the 28th December 2017 leaving Devizes in the UK.  Apologies for the dirty windscreen!...

as above.

Arrival at customs in Folkestone, if there is a slow queue we find it and we did again!

Thirty minute delay as a car had broken down on the Chunnel train!!! We ended up travelling in a truck train instead of the double storey car one.

Passing the mining basin at Nord-Pas de Calais, a World Heritage site.
Remarkable as a landscape shaped over three centuries of coal extraction from the 1700s to the 1900s

A drive by sunset just before reaching Arras.

Arras by night walking to the restaurant for dinner...

Not great shots as all hand held...

As above.

We walked around part of the town the following morning, not feeling well even then, so there will be some photos from the town in daylight. The problem is now with my fuzzy head I am not sure what building is what!!

I will not be posting daily as I still do not feel up to it but getting there slowly.

Sunday, November 26, 2017

26/11/2017 Catching up a couple of days

23/11/2017 Sunset at home

24/11/2017 Sunrise central France.

24/11/2017 In the Chunnel.

24/11/2017 Sunset at Gatwick U.K.

26/11/2017 Walking to the beach.....

26/11/2017 Standing in Nevis looking at St Kitts.

If you want to comment I am happy to hear from you, but I will not be answering while we are away.  

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

15/12/2015 Arrived in the UK, raining!

The car reading at one stage was 12C. Rain all day in both N. France and the UK!
Look closely, see the rainbow in N. France.

Arrival at the Chunnel.

Driving through the UK.