Calais, France, dammit!

We stayed in London with Nick and Rachel last night and intended to travel to Gent, Belgium today.

Though we should have had more than enough time to get ourselves to the bus station in London, we left North Acton late and missed our bus to Dover. . . so we thought.  After paying the £2 adjustment fee to change our tickets to the next bus, we found that our original bus had been delayed and that we had just wasted some money.