So I have bought an emergency sleeping bag and a self inflating air matress (how lazy is that?). Hopefully won't need either as I plan to stay in hotels... but you never know. Also other vital supplies include Wine Gums and Ginger Wine.

So, route planned so far, leave about midnight from our village poker game in Sutton Benger, 2.5 hours down to the chunnel, 40 minutes later Calais, drive towards Belgium, find breakfast.

Only other targets are the Nurbergring then Prague then somewhere probably in the direction of the Alps then a small cemetry between Paris and Reims to pay my respects to my uncle Stanley Goodhew who lost in World War II(60350 Moulin-sous-Touvent) and back to Calais.. Sounds too easy.

I shall try and post whenever I can get a WiFi connection.
Wish us luck!