The Great British Summer

Normally when we come to this part of the world (Dover when going to France), on a good day, it will take about two hours. As there was an accident between junctions 4 and 6 of the M2 and we could see that the traffic was stationary we were forced to get off and reset the satnav to avoid the M2. This worked fine until we came to a graunching halt and were stuck in a jam for well over an hour. I turned off into an estate trying to find an alternative route without success and ended up joining the same queue at the same place we left. Claire had heard on the radio that the accident had been cleared so we headed back towards the M2 again with the traffic going the other way solid right to the motorway now. The cars were still stationary so we headed back towards London on the M2. Desperate measures but there seemed no alternative. We got off at the next junction and found our way to the M20 towards Dover. We eventually arrived at our hotel in Margate after over 4 hours in the baking sun. It had to be the hottest day of the year so far; maybe the only sunny day we have seen since we got back from Turkey.

We had booked the Premier Inn for a change, mainly because it has parking and we guesses that at this time of year there would be lots of people here. The room it fine but not luxury and we do have a sea view from out bedroom so that’s great. We had intended to drive to one of the estate agents that I had registered with as we couldn’t check in until 2pm but with the delays we didn’t arrive until then so missed the agent out. We dumped our bags and headed off into town. It was a baking hot day and we could see the reasons why everyone was talking about revamping this town. However, the beach was full up; the last time I saw that many people on the beach was in Benidorm.

We stopped for a refreshing drink or two before finding a cafe for some local fish and chips. While we were waiting the delivery lorry stopped outside while they loaded all the boxes of frozen fish from Russia. Haven’t we any fish left in our sea's?

We got a few bottles of wine and settled in for a night of tv and cuddles. Thursday we have 3 properties to view and have found another 4 that we would also like to see and I will report back tomorrow. Joy; it's raining. That's the end of the great British summer.