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Well it’s the first big test of the T5, traveling aboard well France anyway!

Living in Poole you would think we would take the Poole crossing to France! Until we saw the prices ouch! The Portsmouth to Le Havre crossing was over £100 cheaper, so that was the route we took - a bit of a convoy with Clare’s parents also making a trip in their Fiat Ducato camper. The crossing went well with a couple of beers in us.  The beds on the LD ferry were built for small people so Clare’s mum was fine but at 6FT I found it a bit of a challenge.  We docked at 8am which was great and left us the whole day to get to Le Dorat by tea time.  I know that your thinking the travel time should only be about 4 hours, why would you be budgeting all day to get there! Well we wanted to see as much of the country as you can and not driving at 100Mph down the motorways but chose to use the local roads so we can stop off at a number of Aires to have a biscuit and something to drink. All sounding great until I powered up TOMTOM or as I have now named it CRAPCRAP! So we ditched it and started to use the good old paper maps, within no time we were back on route checking out some of the best views anywhere. Our first stop was “Aire du Pont de Brotonne” it had toilets and a place to park and have a coffee - nice!