Dinner last night at Prümtal Camping was as good as ever.

The journey to Calais today an utter nightmare. I probably said in an earlier post that the A60 Autobahn from Bitburg was closed on our way down and that the diversions were not signed and the roads we ended up on were just way to steep and narrow for towing.

For the return journey, we’d decided to head South to Trier and then across through Luxembourg, Belgium and France. That was until the guy on reception at Prümtal told us the A60 was only closed southbound and that northbound was running normally.

Wrong. Northbound was closed too and again we couldn’t figure out the diversions again. When we originally programmed the satnav, we had 267 miles to Calais. One and a half hours later and we were heading south to Trier, near the campsite and the satnav was now showing 290 miles for the route through Luxembourg.

Worse still, the condition of the motorways in Belgium was atrocious – if you think the roads are grim in Blighty then a visit to Belgium would be enlightening.

We finally arrived at Calais around 5:00pm and spent the first half an hour screwing the caravan back together!

Still, a bottle of the finest Slovenian Merlot has just been opened and it’s a very pleasant evening here at Camping St Louis in Autignes. This is our favourite Calais stopover site and this trip, the toilet block has been completely refurbished – to a very high standard.

Just changed our Eurotunnel ticket to a bit earlier in the morning and then it’s almost home…