In the Starting Blocks

Higgar Tor in the sunshine - one of our regular destinations

It was ten weeks ago tomorrow (June 10th) that we landed back in the UK - it has been a bit of a haul but with any luck we should be sailing out of Portsmouth tomorrow evening. We have kept ourselves busy with walking almost every day somewhere local, or out in the Peak. We also had a a couple of short trips away, one to photo (drone) the Roaches area and one to Manchester to apply for our 180 day French visa - which was 'interesting'.

Ecclesall Woods - somewhere new

The first issue was that they had moved the TLS Contact office from Salford to Manchester city centre - we only found out the evening before our appointment.

The second issue was because we had so much time, we were quite late apply for the visas, while we waiting for the Embassy's decision and the return of our passports we booked a crossing. As time rolled by we began to panic as to whether the passports would be back on time - they were - but only just, the Friday morning before we were due to leave on the Monday - way too close for comfort!!