Escape to England (Saturday)

After taking a leisurely start to the day, we find that most of the other hardy campervan campers also decide that it's the day to leave.  But due to inclement conditions they appear to be stuck on the site.  So with a bit of brute force and mostly the use of Kevin's 4x4, we push and pull and tow about 7 vans out of the snow and ice to the road.  This includes ourselves, but we are proud to say that we got the furthest under our own steam - after all we had the socks on the tyres...

So fond farewells later we hit the road, about 11am and start the trek south.  Exacly 1000km's on the trip meter.  Once we're on the A9 there's really no sign of weather related problems, except for a jacknifed lorry to the side of the road and one car we spot in a ditch.  We head for Edinburgh across the Forth Road Bridge, fill up and then Dave picks the A7 for the route south.  It's a lovely scenic road, but a bit windy for quick distance munching.  We finally get the M6 just north of Carlisle at about 4pm and stop for lunch!

More motorway miles later and a small scare of flooding on the M1 which proves to be nothing we sail home, arriving Watford shortly after 9.  So 10 hours door to door, with 2 fill ups and one extra comfort break.  I don't think that's bad, even though it's a long day in the saddle.  Trip meter now says 1850km.  Drop Dave off and head home to Fran.  I'll unpack tomorrow.