Day 257

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Created on Saturday, 21 May 2016 00:01

05/18/2016 Bruges (Belgium) - Southend (England)

Once again an eventful day came to an end...

The Deloreans spent the night in the garage of our apartments in Bruges.

From there we started to Calais in France, where we booked the Eurotunnel-train.

At the terminal everything ran professional and fast, so that we passed the check-in in short time. 20 minutes before departure the boarding started and exactly at 12:50 pm the train left France. Because of the time difference of an hour between mainland and the British Isles we already arrived at 12:35 pm in Folkestone, that was a travel time of 35 minutes.

As we left the train, the weather was typical English, pouring rain !

After about 2,5 hours driving we reached Canvey Island, where Chris Nicolson's Delorean-workshop 'PJ Grady Europe' is located. Chris and Wolfgang know each other since many years, accordingly we had a warm welcome. Four english Delorean owners, Alistair, Mark, Justin and Jason also came to visit us and again we introduced the World Tour Deloreans with their technical details to a  astonished 'expert audience'.

After three hours we had to say goodbye, even only for 8 days, because we'll all meet again at the Eurofest in Belfast next week.

Our hotel is located in a typical English neighborhood, also a red telephone box -unfortunately out of order- can be seen there.