Not a great nights sleep last night. Some lads came in to the car park and parked behind us – cue quality French drum & bass! I wouldn’t mind, but they never play anything decent! 😂 We stuck it out till about 11:15, when their mates turned up and they had a ‘bass off’- enough is enough. Made a quick exit and ended up about three miles away in a slightly quieter car park. It was Friday night but we naively thought they’d all be under 9pm curfew!
Made our way slowly to Calais – it’s taken all day as we’ve had various stops to find the right coffee to bring back, plus a normal weekly Lidl shop, diesel, draining and water etc
Guy decided to check the grey water tank to see if it needed flushing out – it’s accessed by a locker in the floor inside. The weirdest thing – there was a chewed up cigarette butt sitting on top of the lid. We don’t smoke and Guy had the lid off two weeks ago and it wasn’t there then. How does a fag end get inside your van, under the floor? The only thing we can think of is a mouse or vole, and funnily enough, last week Guy thought one jumped off the top of the tyre or out of the footwell – he wasn’t sure which. My guess is out of the footwell. What with that and the constant infiltration of shield bugs – who knows what we might bring home with us!
At Calais now, paid to park behind a barrier along with a few others. All the usual places along the coast have had theft and break-ins and we defo need a quiet night tonight!