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We say goodbye to Clive and Theresa and leave home at 15:10
Traffic is not too busy although there are showers and drizzle but for which Glyn Valley might have been pretty in its autumn colours.
We get to Saltash services before dark and loiter for a couple of hours, then visit Waitrose before driving the last few miles to Plymouth ferryport. As we arrive the last vehicle for the overnight ferry is checking in, meaning we can park at the back of the embarkation lanes for the night. Just after Pont Aven sails three more MoHo's pull in and line up ahead of us.
Late evening Armorique arrives and discharges its vehicles before we turn in for tomorrow's early start.
FRI 4TH NOV 2016
As soon as the 06:00 alarm goes off we start getting ourselves up. Two of the MoHo's have checked in when we move towards the check-in booth. There are no queues and the clerk tells us there are only 80 vehicles and 200 passengers. Boarding goes smoothly and Armorique sails out of Plymouth at 08:00 under grey skies.
The low cloud is above us all the way, with a black-blue horizon that looks like we're never out of sight of land. The sea is calm and half way across we have a couple of groups of dolphins criss crossing the bow.
Unlike our last few arrivals in Roscoff, today it is raining heavily and we don't go into the town's aire, instead staying with the ex-Armorique convoy on the road south and east.
Again the autumn colours are masked by the rain and spray on the busy main road towards Guingamp, where we intend to stop tonight. When we reach the town there are roadworks and diversions but we find the aire in the central carpark and wait for the school buses and parents' cars to load up their children then park ourselves. Nearby is the elderly Hymer that camped with us in Plymouth.
Two more MoHo's arrive and once the shops and businesses close for the day the place goes quiet.
A simple dinner of pizza and a couple glasses of wine and then an early night. With rain drumming on the roof we are in bed and asleep soon after 21:00.
Sometime around 23:00 we are woken by loud and mindless rap-crap. A parked BMW with all its doors open is surrounded by a group of youths intent on demonstrating the sound system to all of central Brittany. It goes on until sometime after midnight when we are allowed to sleep once more.
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