Well yesterday I finally managed to finish the goodbyes and catch the bus from Victoria out to Amsterdam. After two hours at Victoria I finally found a seat on a crowded coach with a man large enough for three seats but only allowed to have one. As you can imagine we instantly formed a close relationship due to the fact that we were as physically close as I would imagine prison inmates would be for twelve hours. Conversation was easy to strike up as he instantly asked me whether I thought that there would be food on the ferry - and the conversation continued for many hours on a food based theme. We got to Dover for 11:00pm sailing to Calais and luckily for me the burger bar was indeed open. (Vidal I can say that
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