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!