And we're off

Spent Four days in London. We took the Euro Tunnel. 

In our case, you basically drive your bus into these cargo looking containers which are actually mounted on railroad tracks. They then close you in and a train pulls all of the cargo trailers. Pretty crazy stuff. It was an incredibly tight fit for the bus. I'm talking like 6 inches on each side from what I could see. 

                                        

                                       

The Channel Tunnel is the longest undersea tunnel in the world: its section under the sea is 38km long. It is actually composed of three tunnels, each 50km long, bored at an average 40m below the sea bed. They link Folkestone (Kent) to Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais).

It's a 3 hour drive to get from Caen to Pas-de-Calais. The crossing itself once you get going takes 35 minutes. 

This is a video my co worker took. It's fairly long, but really shows from start to finish how this thing works.