Santander to Home

The sail home was long, almost 24 hours I slept well in the cabin and spent most of the day walking around the boat and reading. Eventually we caught sight of the Isle of Wight, and sailed around it into Portsmouth. We said our fair wells up on deck and docked around 8 pm.

I managed to get off the boat by 8.30 and set the Navigator to 'Home' and followed Sean and Gerry along the M27, A34 and left them as I turned off at Chievely Services to fuel up one last time where I helped a young woman heading towards Hereford in an old Mercedes sports car with an overheat problem. It seemed she wanted to top up with water and luckily she hadn't tried to remove the hot radiator cap yet but was just about to. We decided it was best she let it cool right down and try and drive to the next service station or junction and see how she goes first. Hopefully she made it home OK.

Most of the rest of the journey home via the M4 and past Cirencester, over Birdlip and onto the M5, I made use of the cruise control and my high visible over jacket to cut the wind chill (now at 8 degrees) and also make me a bit more visible on the dark sections of motorway. I made it back just after 11 pm. The end of yet another superb motorcycle tour with good company. 👍