After the race at Dalby we had to head home and start the task of packing as we were heading off at 6 in the morning to start the long trip to Belgium. Our long trip turned into a very very long trip indeed! On the drive down to London we had some van troubles. Ian our driver decided it was best to call into his place at Nottingham where he knew a mechanic who could look at it for us, this wasn’t too far out of our way but the van was blowing thick blue smoke and moving at about 50k an hour!
As it turns out it was a quick fix but with the time taken for this diversion we were no longer going to make our original ferry booking. The next ferry from Dover left at 7pm that night so we had a bit of time to kill…. By the time we got over and into France it was a 4.5 hr drive to Houffalize where our accommodation was, so this trip to Belgium was almost as long as the time it took to get from Australia to the UK!
We finally arrived at 4.30 I the morning absolutely ragged, needless to say we had a huge sleep in in the morning!!
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