If we consider that this is a motorcycle trip, then there are a few options. I can ride all the way there and back - Eurotunnel and/or short ferry I can take the Brittany Ferry one way and ride the other way I can send the bike on a truck and fly down to collect it possibly ride back I have to admit the third option only appeared after I had read an article this afternoon where some guys packed their bikes up with a specialist transport company, then they flew and met the bikes and as they were "professionals" they left the truck to bring the bikes back and the flew home. Possibly not for me, but worth pricing up? "But" I hear you say, riding is the point of a bike/motorcycle trip. And you would be right. So I have been mostly looking at options 1 and 2. The return trip is in the environs of 1800 miles from the Eurotunnel terminal at Calais to Motorland. On top of that will be all the wrong turns and detours en-route to get to petrol and to hotels. On to...