Day 11 - Portsmouth, April 23rd
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Jack's Car
Jack was driving the UK equivalent of a Lincoln Town Car. He picked us up in Bath and drove us to Portsmouth for a tour of the Royal Navy Museum.
I'll have an Egg McHaggis, please
En-route from Bath to Portsmouth, we stopped for breakfast at a Scottish restaurant.
Ironic - a French Crepe Stand on the drydock with HMS Victory
Another Night Ferry
Something got slightly hosed up in our itinerary and we found ourselves at the ferry dock 4 hours before our boat was due to depart. We amused ourselves reading travel guides for a while. Around 9pm, Anna, an Australian woman doing the post-collegiate tour, struck up a conversatio nwith us and we amused ourselves talking with her. We also borrowed her Lonely Planet Europe Travel Guide.
The Lonely Planet Europe Guide is about the size (and weight) of a pair of bricks. Because it covers the entire continent, the type is REALLY small and the descriptions can be terse to the point of useless. Douglas Adams parodied this nicely with Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy's description of Earth as "Harmless." and then in the next version having the writer update it to "Mostly Harmless."
But I digress ...
The ferry arrived, we tucked ourselves in and before Hobbit had sufficient sleep, we had arrived in France.
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