Day 34 - The last day

It was our last day. Woke up to the sad realisation that the trip was pretty much over and next week I would be back in work.
I did not want to dwell on this too much so put it to the back on my mind and we got on with breakfast and packing up the van.
Check out was not till 12 so we had a pretty leisurely morning. After a nice shower and shave I was ready for the day. We planned to park the van and up somewhere and head into Cologne again to have some lunch in a place which was recommended to us by Lexy and her boyfriend.

The lunch was called curry wurst and was essentially German sausage with cheese in a curry sauce. It was lovely and we were both stuffed afterwards.

Once we had lunch we headed back to "the dom" as Rachel wanted to get some more pictures with her camera. That done we decided that we should make our way back to the van and start the drive which we planned to do overnight to dunkirk. The drive was 400km so we planned to stop a few times along the way to eat.

We got caught in a huge rain shower on the way back to the van and got completely soaked which was fun for a bit but after a while made us a bit cold. Back at the van we changed into some dry cloths and hit the road.

We drove for a couple of hours before stopping for dinner. This stop only lasted about 45 min and we were making really decent time so we decided that despite our ferry not being till 12 the next day we would just head to the port and see if we couple get an earlier ferry.

In the end we made it to the port around 12 which meant we were a full 12hours early. Luckily we were able to change our ferry and we on one by 1am heading back to the UK.

It was a bit of a sad way to end the trip as everything happened so quickly but it made alot more sense than just killing 12 hours.

Back in the UK we just had the 55 mile drive to Rachel's mom's and then the journey was over.

Was a great trip. Will post up some stuff on the highlight and all the stops we made as well as the cost of things at a later date.

Final photo with the van - Cologne 25th August 2011