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Published: July 27th 2009
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we got to calais on time this time and had to ask passport control where to park our rent car
it tok us about 3days to empty the car of all our gear then we went to check
the europecar desk was closed but there was a notice that read, if the desk was closed to leave the car keys in the letterbox, which was below
we checked in just after a man who was in a similar situation to us apart from he had been without his motorbike for a day.
i remembered i had my knife in the back pocket of the jeans i was wearing so just before luggage control i opened my suitcase and put it in the middle in between my clothes. security found it straight away.ha. i explained to them i'd bought it in spain whilst traveling. i was shocked when then they told me to put it back in my bag and off you go! as i was opening my case one of my boxer shorts fell out which was embarrassing enough, until a woman walked past and picked them up and as she gave them to me she said, 'walla', french as fook!ha....then if that wasnt funny enough when we were sitting in the waiting lounge for our bus to the ferry, the security guard came round looking all tough and that with his gun, but he also had our multicoloured beachball in his hand!ha
by this point danilo wasnt feeling too good. he had had a temperature, chest pains and now had started having trouble breathing properly. the tannoy came on and a woman said, 'if there's anyone who has a temperature, chest pains or is having trouble breathing' to please get checked out. basically she was saying it's swine flu! i told danilo next to this old woman who we were sitting next to so she probably would have heard....she then decided to stand up and move out of the way of us.haha
we then got on the bus then had to take a long walk to the onto the ferry which was full of american school kids!
when we got off the ferry we had been told by my insurance company that there would be a car waiting for us to drive home. i knew there wouldn't be! instead there was a guy in a car that was gonna drive us to a garage that had a car for us. unfortunately there was another person who we had to wait for who was getting in the car as well....never thought it would be that guy who was in front of us in the queue in calais....what a nutter he turned out to be!
he was also told by his insurance company that there would be a car waiting for him in dover but he was proper pissed off that there wasn't. he went off it and threw his helmut on the floor. to be fair he was like a big baby! he'd only been stranded for a fuckin day! it had been a week for us that day! in the car we ended up having a big conversation on religion and what his belief was on people who prayed!
we eventually got somewhere near London, can't remember now. there was a compound full of cars. they gave us a mint vehicle (nissan xtrail) bit fuckin late now tho isn't it!!!!
it was canny fast like and it had cruise control. the one in the peugeot was better like but never mind. we stopped off at a garage for a few BLT's and took the piss a bit.ha
we arrived home and i dropped everyone off. what a shot time that was. we finally arrived home and there was balloons all over our front door because it was danilo's 18th birthday on the 16th which was that day as it was the morning now.
the next day i had to take the nissan back to enterprise in sunderland. i wanted to pay to have it for another few days as it was class. they told me i couldn't do that because i had to be 25 to drive it. what the fuck!!!!
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