We've made it to Dover!

We left Shropshire yesterday and travelled towards a little village near Northampton so it would be nice and easy to get the satellite fixed this morning. It took longer to fix than expected (3 hours!) but at least it's sorted and the TV works again at last. Then it was onward to Dover... a long, long drive, especially as we were hitting the M25 on a Friday afternoon, very bad timing! We had a couple of breaks (one to Sainsburys to stock up on lots of baked beans, tea bags and ketchup!) and another later to cook some food - better than the KFC we had last night :-) We finally got to Dover just after 10pm. It's a crazily busy place with loads of lorries parked up on the way in and even more queueing up to get to the ferries. We've found a place to park up near the town centre in a nice residential area, luckily one of the houses has been kind enough to leave their broadband unsecured and therefore let me use it. We're hoping to catch a Sea France ferry tomorrow (Saturday) at 12.35pm, but for one reason or another the website won't let me finish our booking, so I need to ring them in the morning... Hopefully places will still be available. If not, there appears to be plenty more sailings throughout the weekend. We'd like to arrive in France while it's still daylight so that Mark can get used to driving on the right. Probably a good idea, especially after the long day driving he's had today. Anyway, enough for now, time I got some sleep! See you in France :-)