Jeff: A new adventure!

So we are finally on our way after a couple of delays and today we managed to get an early morning ferry from Dover to Dunkirk. The plan is a short drive up to Eindhoven with a stop at a bakery for some true French bread to keep us going.

So you might be asking why its taken us sooo long to get going again and this is due to a few different things. Firstly I submitted an application for Irish descendent citizenship and this was submitted in May 2022 with an expected 2 year turn around but this was actually awarded in March 2023 so its kicked off lots of changes. I applied for my Irish (EU) passport and knew this would take at least a month and to also take full advantage of this status Rich and I got married (I mean we have been together for 13 years so it was about time). All of this means that we can both now travel together as EU citizens and are not restricted to 3 months. The passport took a little longer than expected so we took a little holiday to Norfolk to see some friends before returning to Somerset and enjoying some of the weather and preparing for the longer trip.

When we got to the ferry this morning we did confuse passport control as Rich had to hand over the two passports and our marriage certificate and explain as his wife is Irish he shouldn't receive a stamp in his passport and there was a few moments of worry for us while he worked it all out and then he handed us back the passports and certificate and we were off!

The longer plan is to drive to Denmark and cross the bridge into Sweden to explore Sweden, Norway and Finland before coming back to Denmark and exploring that properly and exploring more of northern Europe before returning back to the UK in late November/early December.

below are some pictures from the wedding which took place in Barnstaple, which gave us all the excuse of a nice long weekend away for the coronation.