Back to lovely London

Sunday  27/9/15 
After a beautiful nights sleep in the best Air B&B we've stayed in just out of Canterbury, we woke to not only the normal continental breakfast but a full cooked breakfast too. To be honest Sarah our host really goes overboard with everything from the wine/beer, scones greeting, the 1,000 thread count sheets on our bed that she irons, phoning the local pub to make sure we could get in for dinner to giving us an extensive menu last night so we could select our dishes for the morning! We thought that it is obviously more than just a business to her and she got so much from hosting people as she loved the interaction. Rob did try black pudding along with bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, eggs etc. Rob and Sarah spent a lot of time talking about Air B&B and how it all works. When we left Sarah came out and gave us a big hug and kiss. We had intended to visit some gardens and a castle on our way back to London but this didn't happen. We were taking some of the little country back-roads and realised we needed fuel. We passed many villages that had petrol stations but being Sunday, they weren't open. We had the warning light come on so Rob stopped and asked a lovely lady where would be the best place to go. It was only 6 miles away but in the opposite direction to the castle. Anyway we could head back after getting fuel or so we thought. Unfortunately after a mile or two the traffic came to a halt. It took us about 45 minutes to travel the 6 miles due to roadworks. We made it to the service station but the line up of traffic trying to go back the way we came was so long that we decided to head back to London after lunch. We had a pretty uneventful journey back and arrived at the place where we were returning the Jeep. (Europcar) Unfortunately it was not open at 3pm on Sunday. (Our car wasn't due back till 9am tomorrrow. ) We found a ca rpark behind the office and called another Eurocar office that was open. We were told to leave the car there and we would need to returntomorrow at 9 am to return the keys and paperwork. Rob was not happy but there wasn't much we could do. We took a taxi back to our accommodation at the Angerstein Hotel for the next 2 nights before joining our European trip.