Sunday 17th September.
Final leg of the journey from the Brussels hotel to home. Leger have a transfer stop at a lorry park near Calais at which we arrived in good time for transfer to our home coach.
There were 13 coaches arriving that morning and it was raining hard so all the cases transferred between coaches got wet and as we found out when we arrived home, some of our clothes were wet despite covering the insides of our cases with polythene bags beforehand. Leger used to do the coach transfer at Dover years ago where there was cover and cases didn't get wet but the lorry park at Marck (?) they use is completely in the open but gated.
Anyway, once the coach transfer was done, we arrive at Calais port at 12.40pm. It was chaos. We were booked onto the 2.20pm ferry but the traffic marshals  in the parking area were letting coaches and traffic through at random and our coach didn't clear customs until 3.00pm. Last year we only had to get off the coach and go through British customs before boarding the ferry but this year we had French customs first then the British customs which all took time and there were long queues. Maybe this was the result of heightened security. We just got onto the 3.20pm ferry but were were late getting on so the boat was one of the large P&O vessels and it was heaving. We had to queue for 45mins to get a meal in the food hall. Once off the boat the driver made good time and we were only 20mins late at our drop off point.
However, on my first post I referred to the fact that Leger had abandoned their old pick-up/drop-off point in favour of a grotty lorry park because drivers moaned about being held up in the Chichester one-way system. Well our driver went through the one-way system this time in order to get to the drop-off point......how dumb can you get.