Day 0 - Radwinter to Rosslare - Aug 22nd

An in-auspicious start: 6:30am at Enterprise car rental finds us with a vehicle slightly smaller than ideal that is not insured for Ireland. Luckily fairly easily sorted with Brendan's bike rack and the promise that the insurance will be arranged before we get to the ferry.

Back to Netty and Chris's in Henham to load up the van and have a hearty full English thanks to Netty. Setting off at 8am gives us plenty of time to get to Fishguard by 2pm to check in for the 2:30 crossing. 

Except that the M25 is closed after the M11 junction and means a cross country route to get past the closure, adding an hour. Then the bike rack requires several adjustment stops and gentle driving speeds. Getting into Wales it is clear that making checkin is going to be a close call. Needless to say there are caravans and hay lorries a plenty to slow things down. We made port 20mins to spare (10 mins late for the "final checkin" ) but the nice Welshman let us through saving a 12 hour wait for the next boat. 

So all was well and we could start on the Guinness.