Day sixteen – Bruges to home
| Distance today – 589 km / 366 miles | Journey time – 7h 10m |
| Total trip distance – 4,391 km / 2,729 miles | Total journey time – 2d 18h 20m |
A simple drive home today, taking the quickest route from Bruges to the Channel Tunnel, then onward to home. Nothing much to report other than we arrived in time to get the earlier train, so briefly grabbed warm croissant from the passenger terminal before jumping back in the car and heading over to the “large” vehicle queue which was short – meaning we were pretty close to the front of the train so go out quickly onto the UK roads.
A quick stop for fuel in Folkestone, then M&S at Bluewater to collect a few days of food (Ultimate Lasagne!) plus lunch, before we headed through the Dartford tunnel, around the M25 and up the M1. We were lucky the traffic was generally light and we arrived home by 4pm. Just a shame the road is full of idiots and bad drivers, very little of which we had experienced for the last 2 weeks!!
Well, that’s 4,391 km or 2,729 miles behind us, and a total of 2 days, 18 hours and 20 minutes behind the wheel. Excellent trip.