Elsewhere, routes to resorts on the south and south-west coasts were busy, particularly the M20 in Kent, where police used lanes to park lorries delayed by industrial action involving the ferry operator SeaFrance.
The firm is doubling the number of lorries it will be able to handle on site to about 600, reducing the need to park lorries on the motorway during disruption.
She darted out from behind a parked lorry and into the cycling lane.
Apparently there was a commotion when a parked lorry prevented the team bus from leaving their hotel.
The bodies of at least 20 migrants – and possibly as many as 40 or 50 – have been found inside a parked lorry in eastern Austria, police said on Thursday, in a grim indication of the growing human toll of Europe's worst refugee emergency since 1945.
When French police arrived in riot vans, some of the migrants were rounded up while three or four made a dash towards parked lorries.
We head off across the red ochre soil, which blows up yet another mini dust storm, past the corrugated shacks and rubble and randomly parked lorries, and head for Bekoji stadium.
Thus in Casa Pepe (Carretera Escarion/ Chantada, +982 453 101), alerted by parked lorries, we stopped to eat wild trout followed by a vast mixed grill in an open kitchen, spending €10 for the pleasure with wine, coffee and spirit thrown in.
The operation involves parking lorries on the M20 coast-bound when the Channel Tunnel, English Channel or Dover port are shut to traffic.
The operation involves parking lorries on the M20 coastbound when the Channel Tunnel, English Channel or Dover port are shut to traffic.
