Tuesday 23rd - Second day of the adventure!

Tuesday was an early start. We met at the stables at 5:30 in order to feed the horses and give them a leg stretch before loading them on the lorry for their long journey to Payre. Czarko was to be loaded onto the lorry first, I was quite apprehensive about whether he would load sensibly having always travelled him in a trailer but he did me proud and walked straight in. The rest of the horses behaved equally as well and we were on schedule to catch the 8:25 ferry from Dover to Calais.

 

The journey was successful for everyone and the majority of us arrived at the stables in Payre at approximately 19:30 after checking into our hotel. The horses arrived shortly after us at about 20:45 and we got to work on unloading them and giving them a walk to stretch their legs. Once we had fed the horses and got them settled into the stables for the night, we all headed back to the hotel. By the time we got back it was pushing for 22:00 and in the ghost town we were staying ...there were no restaurants open and the closest place selling food was 20km away! With that, I decided to go to bed after having no dinner. To make situations worse, the hotel we were staying had no warm water so I was welcomed to bed after a freezing cold shower. Nevertheless, the bed was comfy and I managed to have a good nights sleep.