Today’s the day! Southampton here we come; the favourite trousers can be replaced. Only…. the shop has every size but the one we need. I fear we may need to find another favourite trouser. The good news is I got new trainers!
Of course the real reason we are here is Red Funnel. We do love a boat, if you know us, you will know that we have spent many a happy hour on cruise ships, little dinghy’s, beautiful big yachts
and of course our very own little yacht,
but today, we are heading for the ferry to the Isle of Wight, we have a one way ticket and no idea if we will be successful in buying our new home, but we’re going anyway. There’s chaos at the ferry terminal. Car’s, caravans, motorhomes, lorries everywhere, the main road is blocked with the queue and there doesn’t seem to be anyone to sort it out. 2 ferries are out of service and we’re not sure we will get on our booked slot. Eventually we manage to get the traffic light to turn into the dock gate, then we’re stuck. It seems a booking, isn’t actually a booking, when it all goes to pot. We knew there were problems, we’d seen it on the website, so we did as told and came later than usual, but now we are told, “oh, no, you need to go away and come back later”, but there’s nowhere to go and being in a van, you can’t just pop to a little spot on the front. The manager decides we can park in the spaces opposite and reassures us we won’t get a massive fine for parking there against the rules. We’ll see. However , we are parked next to another van, and as so often happens, we get chatting. “What’s that on your roof?” he says, “Is it a chimney?” We have another word for it, but you can make up your own mind on what that might be…….
The next half hour flies by talking about the Wi-Fi aerial (no it isn’t a chimney) and system we have, and before we know it, we spot a big gap in the ferry queue so race over before we get bumped from the ferry because they forgot us And we’re off. Our new life has just begun.
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