InvictaMoto's Family Travels

Frank has asked to make an additional stop on the route between Arras and the first stop on the current plan.    His great-uncle is buried in the Serre Road Cemetery No2 and by some luck it is on the D919 route that we will be already on. There are three cemeteries in a very short distance and Serre Road 2 looks enormous. In fact 7127 burials.   http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/67200/SERRE%20ROAD%20CEMETERY%20No.2   I have added it to my master copy on my TomTom and can send it out to anyone that wants an update.

Everyone that has asked for a copy of the GPS file has been sent one and this is a picture of what they should see when they put it into Tyre. Access from the north will be by the A26 and that's about 75 miles of so from the channel and so everyone needs to have a full tank when we arrive on French soil. I might make a slight change to include a hypermarket in Arras for everyone to fill up.

We've only been back a few weeks and already we have started to consider a return in 2015!! Florida or?

Not a lot to add. Cal will send out a reminder in a few weeks of the ferry reservations. I have sent everyone that asked for the satnav file to everyone that asked. So.  What else?

Whilst tinkering with the route I made a change to the hotel in Burgos for what will be our last night. And the knock on to that is a change in the route out of Madrid that will allow a visit to Segovia. Döra needs to be safe on the rest days and the boutique people would have had her in the street and not in a proper parking area. No way José! Enter a Parador.

The flight from Fort Myers to Toronto and then the in-airport transfer at Pearson went off really well. After the luggage problems on the way out we had a few jitters. In the end Pearson has a luxury that most airports don't offer - free wifi. Usually they make sure that on top of the expensive food and drink that they fleece you for internet. The flight was delayed a little on the way in and so we had an extra hour or so in the lounge. Then of course the allotted gate changed and there was a huge movement of people. We arrived London about 90 minutes late. Home.

Since the scare stories about hours to wait to fly anywhere I have always been a little paranoid about turning up late to the airport. So we were up at 7am a full five and a half hours before our first flight from Fort Myers to Toronto.  I packed the car. The Mustang is a fine car but luggage capacity is not good.  The overall mpg, titchy US gallon was 24.6 on the onboard computer with a high of 30.4 on a long boring 55mph limit zones. Not bad for a big engine. In fact it was more economical at 50 than 35. Both popular limits in Florida. We stopped for breakfast at a Denny's on Gladiolus Drive.  This is a nice chrome jobbie. Nice not belly busting breakfast and then off again. Next stop to fill the car. Guessed at $35 since Weston. Took $23.11! Then TomTom took us to the airport and we waved goodbye to Sally. Back in the hands of Alamo. With all insurances she cost us $800 for 16 days. GULP!!!! And now enjoying a Dunkin Donuts coffee (too ...