Blog ≫ 2015 ≫ Booze run to Calais good, despite eurotunnel
About an hour before our scheduled eurotunnel I was bragging on the twitter "this is ace, check in closes in half hour and I'm still in my house". Foolish. The channel tunnel is great in theory, particularly great having it just round the corner, but it makes it all the worse when it breaks down. There was an incident earlier in the day, an alarm went off on a freight train, and so there was a backlog. We were warned it would be 90 minutes as we pulled in, but this became two and a half hours by the time we'd got out of the car.
So we had lunch on the UK side instead of the French side, in Leon, it was OK. Nice that they mark up their vegan stuff clearly on the boards, saves me taking a chance. We were called to our gate, but ended up sitting in the car for ages, an hour or more I suppose.
Once we got to the other side everything's so easy. We went straight to the big wine shop and properly stocked up. I got thirty or so bottles this time, plus a few beers. Only one of the wines is gone already, but all the Mort Subite cherry beers are.
Spent some time in the Carrefour supermarket too, grazing really, though I like some of their own label stuff. Got some good dark chocolate with salt, and some crisps, and some olives and things too.
Didn't do any wine tasting that I thought we might. Two of the four of us had to drive. Well, I did really, I drove there, but we'd arranged that Jim would drive my car back if necessary. We had some spare time so we then went to the Three Brewers brew pub for a couple before heading back. They brew their own beer there, so I had a little sampler first of all, basically four large shots of beer to choose which one I liked, one wheat, one lagery, one bittery, and one brown. Then I followed it up with a pint of their amber bitter. While we were in there paramedics were called for one of the other patrons. Didn't quite see what was going on but it did not look good. Here's me in the Three Brewers:
If that worked I'll sort out my other photos in a bit...
No trouble on the way back, it was very quiet. There were only about four cars on our train, and we were the last. Odd to see the whole train behind us empty.