The Big Adventure The Homecoming

After the most welcome cigarette in the world i headed over to terminal five to meet ant, "meet me outside crispy creme donuts!!" i stood there for an age, saw several other members from the crew going through the terminal and though the bugger is outside having a smoke, low and behold he arrived i challenged him and he admitted he had been out there for the last ten minutes chatting to someone whilst having a smoke!! We weighed up our options, we had ages until our train back to France so ant nipped up to see if he could get us flights to Paris that would get us in earlier, he booked a couple but we decided we were risking being stuck in Paris waiting for a train to Arras so we headed in to London.
At St. Pancras we asked about getting an earlier Eurostar, this was possible with a small donation to the company, so we jumped at the chance, we then headed to Marks's and bought a couple of bottles of wine, had another smoke and then went through to the waiting lounge. The journey was quite uneventful, ant slept for most of it and carried on reading my short history of Australia. When we got to Lille i looked in to getting an earlier train to St. Pol, the next direct one was in two hours, so i got us two tickets for that and we went and found something to eat. We sat out in the sunshine for an hour and a half, ant with a pichet of rosé and me with a beer, watching the world go by then got on the little train. The journey was quite nice, again ant slept but the countryside was really lovely and at one point we ran along side an enormous canal with a fair few large barges, very picturesque. At St. Pol we were met by Marthe who gave us a lift home. The house was still standing, so that was a relief, then the dogs came charging out into the garden to greet us. Ant spent some time fussing about the place, but apart from an empty drinks cabinet and a huge volume of dead flies, i will need to check for a corpse, the house was fine. We shared a few drinks with ian and then headed off to bed with the girls, the richardson-riggs all in one bed again so nice.