In these "credit crunch times" we thought we may not bother doing a trip this year. I usually start the planning and booking of hotels after Christmas, but this year we decided to leave it, and see how things go. By April we thought we really needed something to look forward to and started booking the hotels, based around one of many routes I've put together over the years. As it turns out am really glad we had it all sorted, as my dad died suddenly, only 3 weeks before we were due to start the trip. It was all such a shock; dead, buried, and gone forever, all within a week. The following 2 weeks I was kept busy trying to sort out his affairs and Kathryn was working 12hrs+ per day. We had very little time together when we needed it the most. Even days before the trip I couldn't get excited about it, but in the end we had a good time and I'm glad we had the chance to get away and spend some time together.
In order to save a few quid I reduced the trip by 1 day and reduced the mileage also. We gone some good hotel deals, the average price paid was £74/night.
As usual we headed south after work on Friday arriving in Ashford around midnight; 296 miles.
Day 1, Ashford (England) - Interlaken (Switzerland) 595 miles
There's always some interesting stuff at the Chunnel Terminal
Heading south on the Autoroute
Had a little convoy with a French Z4C
About 20 miles from our hotel the cloud dropped, the heavens opened and it poured with rain. Visibility was terrible. The hotel was really nice, about 2000ft above Lake Thun. Our room had a "lake view", but we couldn't see anything. After 890 miles in 24hrs we were bloody knackered!
(BTW, it's an Anglia)
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Get back safe!
Coupé
. She kept her eyes shut on the way down and just pointed the camera and pressed the button until the snow was gone (I felt like doing the same).
