By the time we got up Mick and Bren were long gone, we took our time packing up in the hot sun. We were no in a hurry I had resigned myself to the fact hat I would miss the next England match as we would be on the ferry or in the queue for it at match time. As usual when we are over here I had all the times wrong and we could watch if we could get parked and found somewhere in St Malo with a TV.
The 135 mile to St Malo should have taken about 2.5 hours but we arrived just before kick-off time, the SatNav had tried so send us up a dirt track and I did do a wrong turn and had to repeat the last part of the journey into St Malo, it took about 4 hours.
We left the site the way we came in D77/C3 to the N165 East, to exit 39 into the N24, to the D768/D700 to Loudéac and the N164. We stayed in the N164 (even though we were asked to turn off) to Saint-Méen-le-Grand and the D166/D766 to the N176 then on to the D137 and St Malo, we did fill up with cheep fuel just on the outskirts.
We looked for somewhere to park for free and the didn't appear to be anywhere and lots of other car parks had height barriers, so we paid €5 to park at the port. We then rushed into the centre to find a TV, a TV showing the right match. We found one with good beer and we were not loosing, a half time we looked for some food but didn't find anything we fancied, so it was back to the pub for the second half. We manage to hold on to a one goal first half lead to win and qualify for the next round.
We got back to the van had a sandwich, paid the €5 parking and set off the the ferry, the car park barrier lifted I drove through and there was a loud bang and a loud hissing sound. I got out and we had clipped a low concrete block, which had put a dent in the rear wheel, deflating the tire. We had, had a debate as to whether to carry the spare wheel, as most new motorhomes don't even have them, well I am glad we did take it. It was not an easy job but I managed, got very hot, very sweaty and very dirty.
Then when we checked in we where informed that we would be calling at Guernsey as well as Jersey on route adding about an hour to the sailing time. We did not mind that much as we were only going to park and sleep at the port until morning anyway.
I had to reverse on to the ferry, the supervisor loading didn't believe we had drove on forward coming, it was very scary but the direction given were excellent and would have been even better if I could remember left from right.
On arrival at Pool I asked where to park and where to pay and was told to park by the side of the building and not bother with any payment. So we parked with the others, had a beer and went to bed.
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