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Thursday 10th April Day 1 We had packed the van over the last few days so all that I needed to do before Adele returned from work was to fill up with water, diesel and check tyre pressures, fuel was no problem apart from the £99.02 bill which didn't fill 'Veras' tank but as usual the filling stations air pump didn't go high enough for the vans 5 bar pressure so over to Tescos station to do the tyres. I returned already for the off, it was about 2pm so had a shower, changed and had a snooze for an hour. Adele came back at 5pm and we were on the road by 5.20pm. The journey down to Canterbury was fine, motorways were busy but then again they always are. I don't like travelling on the M25 especially in the dark but it had to be done, we arrived at the Canterbury P&R aire spot on 10pm. Friday 11th April  Day 2  The alarm went off at 7am, an early start as we needed to be in Folkestone for 9 - 9.30am. We had to collect Archies AHC, his animal health certificate from A...