This sojourn in our motorhome, Henrietta, started slightly
differently to others. Although we are going to France, Spain and Portugal, we
headed north from Somerset to Gloucestershire. Being very keen on rugby and it
being the World Cup, we had applied for tickets to a number of matches but only
obtained two. The first match was Ireland v Canada at the Millennium Stadium in
Cardiff and the second was Scotland v Japan at Gloucester’s ground, Kingsholm.
We stayed in the Briarfields campsite in Cheltenham and used the excellent bus
service to Gloucester (every 10 minutes) to get into Gloucester early on
Wednesday 23rd September. It was great fun having lots of banter
with the crowd and I was told on many occasions that I was a brave man to wear
a Bath shirt in Gloucester! There were vast numbers of volunteers on hand to
help or just to have a chat and they were all smiling. It was a good match and
the Scottish supporters were very happy at the end. Even the Japanese
supporters were happy and there were quite a few in the crowd.
On the Thursday we drove down to Portsmouth to catch the
ferry to Caen. We normally travel Dover to Calais but, given the trouble in
Calais with potential delays and the fact that we were travelling to the south
of France, we thought that the Caen ferry was more sensible.
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