29.08 - Day 227 - UK to Epernay, FRA
Thursday 29th August - Buckingham / Chelmsford (UK) - Epernay, (France) (Day 227) Departure day. After a relaxing 2.5 months across Buckingham, Chelmsford and Mynytho it’s time to hit the main road again. Everyone has enjoyed homely living and spending much more time than we’re usually afforded with parents, siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins which has been very rewarding. But after 7.5 months away from Sydney, our country count is "only" 5. So on to Europe to boost that number a little whilst continuing our slower travel. Sienna and I are dropped at Milton Keynes station whilst Kate and Seb board their train in Chelmsford, we meet them at King’s Cross St Pancras, boarding the Eurostar to France. Kate and I both fall asleep before we hit the tunnel and when we wake up we’ll be in France. After snoozing on the Eurostar as we whizzed through the English countryside, we awaken in France. It’s a change at Lille for a direct TGV to Charles de Gaulle airport where, offsite,