Sunday 06 June Nauders Home!

We have a long drive today and are leaving at 07:30. Breakfast is on from 06:30 and we actually get away five minutes early.
It is all motorway today for the seven hour drive to Calais and our shuttle home.
The roads are very quiet and we have a good run through arriving in Calais by 16:00 after a couple of stops along the way.
The shuttle terminal is packed with queuing vehicles and I am pleased we are so early. We are booked on the 18:20 train but manage to change that to the 17:20, although I think that may be a bit optimistic with all of this congestion.
We have half an hour in a very busy terminal building before trying to make our way round to the train.
There is a lady marshaling the traffic, stopping anyone who shouldn't be going yet. We are all given a letter for our train and when that letter is called you can proceed to the various checkpoints and trains. It all seems to be a bit of a free for all as the overspill of cars from the car park are now blocking the coach park. It is total dis-organisation and further proof that the shuttle is only ever any good when it is quiet.
We eventually pass through and join another queue to go through French passport control and then another to queue to reach the English passport control window only to be told to go to the passport office and unload all passengers and their passports. Why there is not a dedicated lane for coaches I do not know. Having to queue to be told to go somewhere else when you know where that somewhere else is is infuriating. You would have thought they would have got this right by now!
Once through passports we drive straight on to the next waiting shuttle and have only lost 25 minutes which is not too bad considering how busy it is.
The motorways in England were fairly quiet and we have a trouble free run home.
I have everybody off in their taxi's and am back in the yard by 20:30.
The nend of another triumphant tour to Nauders. I must do this again sometime!