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 This wasn't how this was supposed to happen. Apart from doing a lot of cycling, I had also had the intention of seeing how far I could get by land, which would involve crossing the Channel by means of the Tunnel. I know from experience that you aren't allowed to just ride a bike onto the shuttle trains so I had arranged for somebody to bring a car here and get me onto the train in that. Unfortunately, he forgot his passport, which rather scuppered that idea. I have heard that the tunnel operators can supposedly provide a van, trailer and driver to take a bike onto the train. I've no idea how much that costs but I do know that you can't even enquire about it on a bank holiday. Instead, here I am on the Pride of Canterbury. I'm not really all that happy about it, although I had to put on a bit of a smile here because some bloke was taking the photograph, after my attempt to use the camera's timer merely resulted in the camera falling off a high ledge and spewing its batteries all over the deck. UTC Time: 10:05, Monday 25 May 2009 Local Time: 12:05, Monday 25 May 2009 Estimate of longitude: 1° 35' 43.39" E = 1.595387° Estimate of latitude: 51° 2' 25.39" N = 51.040385° Possible error on position estimate: 10000 metres | |