update

Hello everone.
As I said yesterday we are home after our 1016 mile trip around the mainland. We caught the ferry at Southampton on 12th March, having booked the passage before a ferry had crashed into the S’oton ramp, ruining the ramp and smashing the front of the ferry. This meant that the upper deck of the ferry could not be loaded , or unloaded.
Panic at RedFunnel and all subsequent ferries had to sail half empty as they could not take up to 100 vehicles on the upper deck and only two ferries were serviceable. Added to which the old ramp was ruined and we had to unload at gate 4, round behind the Ocean Terminal, We were told that it would take a fortnight to repair so we were hopeful that all would be ok by 30th March and we duly arrived to catch the 3pm ferry at the old Town Quay only to be sent round to gate 4 just in time to see the 3pm ferry leaving. The next ferry was 5.35.pm!! and after a long wait with no facilities, we were grateful to get on the half empty ferry, leaving many cars on the quay.
Enough of Red Funnel’s troubles. We spent a night at a lovely B&B in Bridport on the way out west and awoke refreshed on 13th to face our journey to Chapel Amble.
Steve had asked us to pick up some paint in Launceston and after a detour we managed to find the shop and went on to Wadebridge. Trouble is road journeys at this time of the year are fraught with Local Councils frantically spending the last of their highways repair fund on road repairs, causing many red light holdups and we had to follow many diversions.
Lower Amble farm is a wonderful place – a converted barn, beautifully furnished. Stop here going out to lunch. tatata