The journey didn’t start well. I got the 1.15pm train from Beckenham Junction with loaded bike and got off at Bromley South only to find the train to Dover Priory had been cancelled. An hour later and just made it to check in for the P&O Ferry at Dover Eastern Docks. Takes about 20 minutes from getting of the train to cycling to the ferry terminal, checking in via separate window just for cyclists and getting to the front of the queue. The ferry was also late by some 20 minutes, but unlike the train caught up with the schedule. The P&O crew, unlike their Seafrance counterparts when I’ve cycled over to Calais in the past, made me wait until all the cars had got off the ferry. Once off the ferry at 7.40pm French time, I took the D943 avoiding the centre of Calais, past Coulogne and stopped for the night at Ardres at about 8.30pm. Distance travelled: 15 miles / 24km. I’ve uploaded the remaining photos I took to my Picasa account, but here’s one from the ferry, showing what a wet and miserable afternoon it was, as I left Dover. You can just see the tugboat coming to take the Del Monte boat out to sea.
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