Saturday, June 7, 2008 Amiens, France to Romsey, England Today we planned to cross the Chunnel into England. We had a reservation for 9:50am, but had to arrive at 9:20. By my calculation, we had about one and one-half hour drive from our hotel in Amiens. As we checked out, I complained about the state of the hotel. It was being renovated and we felt that they should have either closed the place or at least given us a big discount. So, the desk clerk gave us free breakfast. Wow! Free cereal and hot milk. Anyway, we walked a couple of blocks to the parking garage and got the heck out of Ameins. I think this city was location of war battles and a college. Nothing else is happening in Amiens. We were out of there.
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