Return to Reality.

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After the beauty and tranquility (not to mention the wine), of the Mosel Valley in Germany.
All that's left is a two day drive back to the Ferry from Calais then home.

We overnight-ed at Reims - not having much time other than to walk around the town and visit the Beautiful Reims cathedral and have a bite to eat. Then took the scenic route through Champagne country it was a bit wet but still could appreciate the landscape

You may remember at the start of our journey we stayed at our friends, Margaret, Laura and Jimmy, just outside Paris. While we were away, sadly Laura died, and so decided to call in on our back. She had been very ill when we left and though we hoped for the best we thought it might be the last time we saw her. We will miss her company.

This left just heading North, we were both sad. Yes we were looking forward to seeing our friends and relatives, but the thought of not seeing a different view out of the window, or getting excited about our next destination, was going to be difficult.

Although funds were low we pushed the boat out ('scuse the pun) and headed to the lovely restaurant on P&O's latest ship the 'Pride of Britain. All that was needed was to remember to drive on the left hand side of the road.

That's it from us, we hope you've have enjoyed the blog as we have enjoyed writing it

Till our next journey.

Kim and Ali xxx

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Comments

[ali]

Hello gorgeous
To my gorgeous husband. thank you for sharing this amazing trip with me .....didn't we have a ball! xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Marisa and Alex]

Congratulations
Hi Guys, Great to hear that you made it through your adventure. We have enjoyed following the remainder of your journey via your blog. We have had our own fun in Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Germany (where we are now) and are on the unfortunate countdown to home (less then 3 weeks). We especially appreciated your reflections of the trip as we feel the same way about looking back at ours (sat nav definately is a god send). Looking forward to hearing about your next lot of adventures, and get in contact if it happens to be Australia All the best, Marisa and Alex