Home - Bed Calling

Hi everybody,

Well, after a 553 mile drive today, the Jools truck made it back to Andover,
via Nigels to "threw him out the door" as Fran put it,
to Sevenoaks to meet a random stanger called Colin to give him Carla's rucksack and two tents (apparently they were his),
to Godalming to leave loads of kit in the door way of a house reportedly lived in on occasions by Charlie and Claire (and to pick up a lovelly goody back with scrummy bits in, thank you everybody)
to Basingstoke train station (where we managed to wake Fran up) and left Fran and Stephen to catch a bus)
and finally home.

The journey from Mannheim only took 11hr 35mins, and doesn't my right foot know it. My left foot is feeling perfectly relaxed thou.


The other 5 (Charlie, Claire, Carla, Tom and Jon) all had a nice quiet relaxing train, bus and flight home - but the truck still beat them (we did have a 2 hour head start thou).

But this does all mean that we are now all home (well, Carla and Fran may have slightly longer joruneys to get to Gurnsey and Scotland). The main part of this explorer belt is now finished, but, for the friends and relatives there will be the days of non stop listening as loads of exciting adventures will be pouring out.

Of course, there is now the paperwork to complete, and all of the team members will need to be busy preparing for their forth coming presentations.

I hope the blog has been useful. Sorry about the spelling mistakes and typo's (it was a small keypad on the phone - that's my excuse and I will stick to it).

Hopefully the team members will add some comments over the next few days to the blog, when they get a chance to stop talking and to read the blog. (I had better remove those bits that we didn't want them to read now.......)



Jools