Well having had a final wander around Ávila we set off for Santander to spend the night there before getting the boat to Cork.

No sooner had we checked in did we got a call to say the dang boat was cancelled and wouldn’t be going until Sunday with no guarantee that it would go then as the weather forecast for Ireland was dreadful. And so we were booked on the boat from Caen to Portsmouth on Friday at 23:00 and then on the Pembroke to Rosslare boat on Saturday at 14:46.

So up and at it bright and early on Thursday morning as we set off for Caen…