This will have to be short, because it's late and I'm well down the Calvados.
Yesterday was fine. Relatively easy run from Edenbridge down to Newhaven. Stayed over at Alfriston - a pretty village with too many Bank hol tourists. Also a lot of terrifyingly steep hills with sharp bends. With no brakes to speak of, this spices life to a degree I haven't experienced since working with a number of well known consulting companies.
Starting off from Alfriston this morning, I was amazed and delighted to be overtaken by Barbara and David, who had left this morning at 4am to see me off on the ferry. Slight problem as the tractor suddenly stopped in Seaford, but this seems to have been a temporary problem with fuel starvation. The mild panic this induced resulted in me heading off towars Eastbourne, readily correcte once I realised I was lost.
The ferry reached Dieppe at 4.30 pm, and was greeted with a reporter from the local press taking pictures and giving me a short interview. I'd already answered the ovious questions (why are you doing this?) by email, so we restricted ourselves to numerical things like fuel consumption and daily distances. He promises to send photos. Whether there will be an article I'm not sure.
Anyway, tomorrow's ploblem is to cross the Seine without going into Rouen, which is a challenge. Next blog will recount just how great.
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Now perhaps you can savour it? London is down, the Channel crossed, interview over; from now on the French you meet will put it down to delightful sheer bloody English eccentricity.
ReplyDeleteTracking a Ferguson Tractor in the depths of Sussex is no mean feat! However he was spotted eventually heading out of Alfriston. A quick stop and then off again for the docks. Rounding the corner, disaster! Bonnet up! It stopped, he wailed! However, the power of two competent engineers was too great for the tractor and he headed off again. We lost him again in the road works in Seaford, but while he took the difficult road, we enjoyed the flat of the promenade road. (That sounds all too much like his life!)
ReplyDeleteThe docks found him quite the centre of attention and amusement of the officials.
Why is it I feel so much better that he is now in France.... Certainly cant be the driving skills.....