T-5

In 5 days time Grizzly and I will be on our way.

When I last wrote, I was about to download all my routes onto Tomtom. That's now done. I probably need to have a quick run through them all to make sure they all load up ok. Over the last few days I've started my packing in earnest. I always have a packing list so as not to miss anything and I'm about 90% of the way through it.

Ginny went to Ryders Motorcycles on Tuesday for some new tyres. As mentioned previously, those already fitted were in pretty good nick (only 2300 miles on them), I just wasn't sure they'd make it on this trip, so I had them changed. I've brought them home with me and will look to get them put back on at some point, maybe after my Aragon trip in September. With the cost of them, it would be foolish to just bin them, with so little wear. On the way back from Ryders, I got caught in a pretty heavy rain shower, so today I gave Ginny a wash to clean off all the muck and she now looks sparkly and new..ish again. The forecast looks decent for Wednesday so hopefully all my polishing won't be in vain. A tour usually starts with precipitation though, so we shall have to wait and see.

Grizzly will be leaving home on Monday and making his usual overnight stop at Leigh Delamere services on the M4. On Tuesday, I expect he'll get to Chatham around lunchtime. We have booked a table for our pre tour dinner at a pub up the road. They do a special seniors 2 courses for £4.99!, which I expect will be the cheapest meal we'll have over the time we're away AND it doesn't include pizza! 😉  Wednesday, we have an early start, as Eurotunnel now want you to check in a minimum of 1 hour before departure, whereas it used to be 30 minutes. Once on the other side, we're heading for Reims.

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That's all for now.

Ciao