20/7  Strasbourg - Harrogate

A very long drive, not recommended in one day.  We set of at 7 a.m. and drove off the toll roads through Luxembourg and Belgium, stopping off in Mons on the way.  An 18.50 crossing from Dover with P & O and the usual choking back the tears thing when the white cliffs came into view.  Also had the usual total panic in Dover, trying to do an intensive course in getting used to driving on the wrong side of the road - a pretty scary ten minutes, with the GPS getting more and more frustrated as we kept turning the wrong way, down the wrong roads.  We even drove back into the port by accident and nearly ended up sailing back to France, but for a bit of nifty Greek driving along the pavement and back to freedom.

We drove through rain, heavier rain, really heavy rain and total deluge until we hit the A1 (with that wonderful road sign that just says 'The North'), and arrived in Wetherby to fog and the lowest temperature yet - 7 degrees.

In Harrogate the temperature was just one degree higher, a miserly 8 celsius.  It's not often this cold even in winter back home...