MarkW Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 Interesting ride back from Paris yesterday. I got caught in all the nonsense at the Eurotunnel, and was stuck on the access road watching hoards of immigrants roaming between the traffic and trying the doors of every artic trailer. The delays were horrendous, although I did spend a very pleasant crossing in a carriage chock full of bikers. Unfortunately one of them had a bit of a mishap pulling into the petrol station in Folkestone when the rear suspension on his FJR completely collapsed, dragging the exhausts and centre stand along the tarmac. Lucky it didn't happen when he was tearing up the motorway in Calais!After giving him a hand I set off, with an ETA back in Harrogate of 1.30 am. On the other carriageway of the M20 the tailbacks down to the terminal were horrendous: two lines of nose-to-tail trucks from Folkestone back to Harrietsham, which according to Google maps is 27 miles. Poor buggers.I finally got home at 3 am after some genius had decided that closing the northbound A1M, M1 and the A14 all at the same time would be a good idea. After 4 hours sleep I'm now in a two-day government inspection of our lab, which is always pretty full on. And to cap it all, we're having to babysit a very tetchy three-year old in the office because he's got horrendous chickenpox. Quote
MarkW Posted June 24, 2015 Author Posted June 24, 2015 Sure was! I started in Calais yesterday morning, rode down to Paris for a meeting, and then all the way back to Harrogate with several diversions. 800 miles in all! Quote
Fozzie Posted June 24, 2015 Posted June 24, 2015 I'm surprised you didn't get a few migrants trying to hop on the back Big trip you had there, give the bike some TLC! It will need a bit of love after a journey like that even if it's just a clean Quote
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