Today is the Swan Whisperer's 74th birthday, and, to celebrate, we are off on our annual visit to the Christmas markets, this time to Cologne. It will be interesting to compare them with Strasbourg, where we have been several times, and we have not been to the Cologne markets for 9 years.
We got up early and were away by 08:30, and arrived at No 6 at about 10. I The others were at Church, so we drove straight up to the motor home and put everything into it, and then drove it down to No 6 and emptied the crates. We couldn't empty the fridge stuff immediatelythough, as it had developed sooty mould, which it has done before, so we had to quickly wash it out. The SW washed the body of the fridge, and I did the shelves in the kitchen of No 6.
The family came back from church at about 11:15, and we finally set off an hour later. We made good time to Folkestone, but, alas, there was a disruption and all services were running about 30 minutes late, and we could not be booked on to an earlier crossing. This did, however, give us a chance to buy a pie and - blissfully - a Chelsea bun in the terminal. We had got so hungry earlier that I had profited from a traffic jam to get the SW an overripe banana and me a Lebkuchen, which kept wolf and door nicely apart!
Anyway, we got off at last, and the crossing was uneventful. At least, I think it was, I fell asleep! We drove the short distance to the Camping-Car park at Calais, and had just time to make ourselves a cup of tea before the monthly Zoom Bible Study.
This is the Christmas tree we have in the WoMo. It is a real tree, but small enough to be propped up with a cushion when we are on the move!
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