Friday, 13 July 2012

Last day

Tired, hungover and miserable. That pretty much describes us all this morning. We'd got in about 2am a little worse for wear and it was now 8am. Stupid mornings!
We have to be in Santander for 2pm and it's a four hour ride on the motorway not including any stops, so we needed to get moving.
We opted for a simple breakfast to avoid yesterday's cheese incident so croissants it is.
We were soon on the road and somehow for the first time during the trip we didn't get lost. Steve did try his best to sort this out though and we had a few last minute trips across the chevrons.
There are a lot of signs along the motorway about deers jumping into the road yet we didn't spot any signs for giant eagles diving in front of you to pick at the roadkill.
It's got to be said that even the motorways in Spain are stunning. Some of the views are fantastic as we cut through the mountains and passed the ocean side towns.
We got to the ferry with loads of time to spare, eventually rocking up at 1:59. Mark did a John Terry and took the lead with 200 yards to go to claim credit.
On the boat Tim and Mark parked up while Steve had to leave his bike hanging off the back of the ferry.
We slumped down for some food and looked out of the window to see a bunch of dolphins chasing us, Tim wanted to get his fishing rod out.
We took part in a pub quiz and scored quite badly but still ended up winning as we were the only team to take part! Our prize was some Brittany Ferry playing cards, but we were more pleased with actually winning something. Next up was a talk from Orca about dolphins and stuff. It was death by powerpoint and Steve and Mark dozed off. Tim doubted some of the guys facts and wanted to argue it out with them.
10 days of booze and crap food were catching up with us so we introduced a two deck rule for any trips to the loo. Let's just say that deck 10 is now off limits to anyone with a sensitive nose and leave it at that.
There was another cheese incident for tea when the stupid French chef forget that we didn't want any and then tried to fix it by scraping it off. Tim kicked off and we got some fresh burgers although they turned out to be more like cat food burgers in the end.
The nighttime entertainment consisted of another quiz, a sports quiz, a men vs women quiz, a quiz on the quizzes and then an impressions Quiz. The impressions were very bad, in fact most of them comprised of him saying the characters name as part of the impression?
It was then time for sleep as we were all struggling to keep our eyes open.
Writing this now, it's the following morning and after breakie there are three more quizzes before docking in a couple of hours. 1220 miles covered.
Thanks for reading!


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