19 – 21 March 2020 Calpe…..Morton in Marsh

Left Calpe at about 0800 just after the rush had gone, the first police control was at Bennisa but we were waved through with no problems. We realized that this journey in life was going to be tough but we drove 580 miles arriving at Marvejols in France at an Aire for an overnight stop. The journey was through some fabulous country side and some super sights. There was not many cars on the road as travel without permission is banned ? but there was lots of trucks one poor driver had rolled it and was blocking part of the motorway. Crossing the Millau Viaduct was great what a sight.

We left Marvejols at 0700 next morning after having a great night’s sleep and drove through the country side before joining the motorway again. We then drove 580 miles to Folkston via Calais only being stopped by the police once north of Paris to make sure we both had the emergency travel documents.

While passing through Paris it was an unusual sight to see all the trains parked up due to reduced rail transport.

We managed to change our Euro tunnel booking at any time due to having a Flexi + ticket. We originally had the tunnel booked for Monday 23/3/20 but the trains were not running at the weekend we then changed to 2000 hours on the 20/3/20 knowing we could arrive any time that day and we would be given priority on the first train available the train was at 1750 so we arrived at the campsite at 1645 British time WOW. Wish we could have shown you our fly collection on the front of the van but it rained late in the day and removed some.

21 March 2020

Good journey from Folkestone to Moreton in Marsh. Lots of traffic on the road which is unusual to us having travelled two countries fairly rapidly where only essential travel is authorized. Missing our coffee stops! Arrived at Moreton in Marsh at 12.10. Very happy with the way the site is handling this problem. Had a walk down to Aldi purely to see if the stories about supermarkets being empty of goods were true. This Aldi was fine, the only thing you couldn’t buy was toilet rolls.

After lunch we had another into the town and we noticed a lady and pushchair with toilet rolls so we looked in the Tesco Local and were able to buy some.