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Well, that was a good way to save money :)

We went over to France on friday night, intending to sleep in Calais and buy wine the next day. Well, we ended up ion Beauvais, a lovely little town three hours from Calais... but the hotel staffwere amenable, the bed was comfortable, the coffee was good, and so was the shower.

Breakfast was, in fact, so good it deserves a second mention.

Then, we found a supermarket and bought a map and an Asterix book for Benedict and drove to Calais via an amusing service-station language mix-up incident (I blame terryfish. In Calais wefound stuff and things and wondered for a bit, before going to a wine warehouse and buying lots of wine. Then we had dinner in a lovely Creperie (I had seafood and vegetables followed by lime ice cream, honey and flambeed vodka, and he had ham, cheese and creamy mushrooms followed by white cholocate sauce, vanilla ice cream and chantilly cream).

Then we drove back.

Lovely, and I am much less stressed than I was before we went, and we have saved money and got better quality stuff and general good things.