We spent a lovely visit today with P's great aunt and uncle. Last I had seen them was 8 years ago, although P came and spent Easter weekend with them 3 years ago when he was posted to Sweden, but the rest of us hadn't yet moved over. Their house is the same. The cats are still afraid of visitors. The most we saw was a streak of black fluff tear down the stairs after he was startled out from his hiding place. David prepared a wonderful salmon lunch, and made one of his famous apricot sponges. Vera is the same I am happy to say. For 85 and slightly less than 85, they seem to have loads of energy. They sent us off with a care package of apricot sponge and banoffee pie. P drove us around a bit to revisit his "hometown" and show us his school and the house where his mom grew up before we left Long Eaton.
The drive down to Maidstone was a traffic disaster. There is a big bridge one has to cross. Apparently, it had been closed for 7 1/2 hours earlier today. We got stuck in a combination of the backlog and other smaller accidents, but eventually made it to our hotel. Tomorrow we will take the Chunnel across to Normandy, then drive down the coast toward Juno Beach and Courseulles-sur-mer.
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