Yesterday was the last day of the trip- our drive day back
to London. We did make 2 stops along the way- The first being a cheese and clog
factory. We listened to the process of how cheese is made in the factory
(always an interesting challenge with a group the size of ours). Afterwards, we
had a demonstration on how wooden clogs are made and we actually watched a man
from the chop make a shoe by carving wood. It was really cool. I actually
bought a nice pair of wooden sandals there.
The Belgian Chocolate
Factory was our next stop. It was really just a big warehouse of chocolate and
a half hour shopping stop. I couldn’t resist and ended up purchasing more
chocolates- including crispy strawberry chocolates in the shape of Pringles.
They also had bottles of wine discounted to 1 euro- so I ended up on the bus
drinking strawberry wine and eating delicious strawberry chocolates. I was
quite happy!
We carried on to the ferry port and ferried across back to
Dover (only about an hour and half). During that time we got some fish and
chips for dinner. Afterwards was- you guessed it- back on the bus again!! This
time the drive was only a couple hours and we arrived back in London a bit
earlier than we expected to. This gave us plenty of time to take the tube and
bus to get our suitcases out of storage, bring them on a bus, tube line and 3rd
bus to the hotel, arrange all our things and make sure the suitcases were
within weight restriction (throwing away a few things because they weren’t),
shower and finally get a bit of sleep (5 hours but still it was something). Now
we are in Iceland. We got to the bank, got checked out and did our first part
of the flight home no problem. Everything went exactly to schedule and now all
that’s left to do is wait for the next flight to get us to Toronto and then travel
on home with mum and dad who have very generously offered to pick us up.
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