Home again ( Rather belatedly finishing the blog for our May 2011 Trip to France)
June 22nd 2011 Home to the UK from Calais via the Chunnel and then that boring drive up the busy English motorways to Staffordshire. Always a pleasant surprise to find home just as we left it, though the garden has turned from Spring to Summer in our absence and is full of poppies.
Then the boring bit. Emptying the Tandy of all food, clothes and everything else we carry with us. Sort the washing, put away the
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