Very interesting day, arrived in France with no problems. Drama started when we pulled in for fuel 3 hours from Calais to discover the A frame on the front of the trailer was cracked both sides to the point where if we had gone much further the trailer wouldn't have stayed with us. Several hundred phone calls later and several hours later the trailer is welded together enough to hold it for a few miles and we take it to a garage. Again a million more phone calls and several hours later we leave trailer at garage and get escorted to a yard where we are told there is stabling for 5 ponies. Bearing in mind it's now approx 6.30pm and the ponies had been on the lorry since 3.30am! Arrive at yard to find no stables for ponies! Several hundred phone calls later we get another taxi escort to another yard. Lovely lovely yard owner has turned her horses out in field for night so we can have stables. Ponies now happy in stables, humans fed and drinking wine and its now 10.30 pm and we are off to bed. A very very stressful day with much screaming, shouting, swearing, crying and laughing at occasional times. Fingers crossed trailer is fixed tomorrow and we can carry on as planned. Will do our best to keep you posted. Love The Humans ( Gingers too tired to write!)

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