That music…. you know the music on brittany ferries… you will know it if you have ever been on the over night ferry! Does anyone know if you can download it as a phone alarm?! Well, it woke us up after a rocky night at sea. I was sure I could hear Stew off for a wonder in the cabin next door… but he assured me not!

I remembered with the club thing we have for getting cheaper ferries that we got free breakfast… so I popped down to the cafe for essentials… coffee, pastries and fruit, and we cleared our stuff out the cabin and headed for freckle. Not before I stopped in the makeup shop to take advance of some testers!

Back in the van the (always slightly nervous) wait to start freckle began! The radio 1 summer mix was lined up and passports at the ready!

We headed for a quick nose around saint malo, past broken back car park and to have a look at a potential campsite for our last night.

Obviously the bridge at Nantes was a highlight (who doesn’t love a big bridge).

Once on the main road, the route was clear and we went past all the entertaining farm artwork from bales of hay and things!

We had to stop at decathlon… to buy a load of bits we forgot (like bike helmets!)

Then the food shop for cheese and oysters before the final push for the coast!

We arrived at camping cypress https://www.camping-lescypres85.com/en. and found our pitch. We’ve got a lot more stuff this year so it was an interstingbfindung places to put it!

A trip to the beach and game of bat and ball was as energetic as it got for all of us!

Once back from the beach we feasted on oysters, prawns and sausages! The children are settled down for a bed whilst we wait for bed time as we are super tired!

The 2018 sneaky get away, our bonus holiday has snuck up on us! After a truly awesome summer to date we thought it was only right to end on a high in French France!

After a day or frantic packing we set off in time for some food in whitely…. and then on to the ferry port. Grandad stowed away for the first leg of the journey… and we thought he was going to try and sneak on to the ferry, but the customs check of the van would definitely have picked him up!

We headed past west end church where we broke down last year…. relieved as the Rescue Spencer’s are ahead of us this year and unable for a salvage mission and rations!!! The picture of Freckle being fixed that I shared on twitter last year made it into the RAC training manual!!! We were already remembering things we had forgotten before we even went off the drive!

We got on the ferry destined for saint malo… as we cast away we watched the navy taking their flags down at dusk…. We headed to our spot on the back of the ship to and as we got to the round tower we could see grandma and grandad waving us off! Past spice island (always packed there) and on past southsea.

After a brief pint in the bar, the terrible Caberet was too much for us to bear so we beat a hasty retreat to the corridor outside our cabin, and whilst the children slept stew and I assumed our usual positions for a gin and tonic.

Sarah’s sea legs don’t make her the best of drinking buddies in high seas and so before long we were tucked up in our bunks for the night being rocked off to sleep by the waves dreaming about adventures in our favourite places!