Bedded down for the night in Calais

Our video blog says it all but some elaboration on the Australian lady we discovered waiting to board the ferry in Dover.
It's important to realise that had we not had their guidance to follow their car off the ferry and down the disembarkment ramp we would have certainly been in trouble.
The hordes of African refugees camped only a meter from the ramp created great opportunities for those people to assault, rob or otherwise attack vehicles and people coming off the ferry.
This is the reason our Aussie lady had guided us to follow their vehicle closely down the ramp. They came down at a relatively quick pace in order to avoid providing the refugees easy opportunities to grab us or the bikes as we came down.
She knew we would be totally in awe of the scene and would not realise some of these people were very violent to people and vehicles alighting from the ferry.
When safe and well away from the ramp area and the entry/exit gates to the refugee compound she explained why she wanted us to follow her in the manner that we did. She had not warned us why and we were glad she hadn't.
We said our goodbye's and promised to contact her family back home. Riding around for a short time we came upon a motel and hunkered down for the night after the receptionist warned us we could not leave the security gated compound if we could not return well before 7.30pm
A shower and a relax and we hoped for an easier day of riding the next day.