Day 22 Tuesday

The last day of our holiday. We walked to the bus stop to catch a bus to Harwich town railway station. on our way a large container lorry stopped and it was the same driver that stopped last night. He said something like “remember me, I saw you last night, did you stay in the hotel?” We said that we did. he asked where we been, when we told him about our adventure he said that he had been in Oslo last week, then we told him we were on our way to catch the train home to Gloucester and he had been there recently too. He was causing quite a block on the road and cars and lorries were having to navigate around him. he was such a friendly man.

Eventually the bus arrived and we asked to be dropped off at Harwich Town station. When we had been on the bus for 20 minutes or so the driver stopped and told us and the other passengers that he was going to get a cup of coffee and a sandwich for his lunch. When he came back he asked us which station we needed, we said Harwich Town, he then said we were here, it was just a short walk down the road. Off we went, followed his instructions and came to a station, but it wasn’t Harwich Town it was Dovercourt.

The station was deserted and we decided to get on any train that came our way that was going to London Liverpool Street, which we did with no problems.  It is quite a way from Liverpool Street to Paddington Station our ticket included underground fares so we took the Circle Line which went straight there.  We had half an hour to wait for our train but it was on time and we boarded without delay.

We got off at Stroud where there is a short walk to the bus station. From there we caught a bus to Charfield and our Norwegian adventure had come to a close.