Do what i did last year from Newcastle to Southern Spain with a mate on my 748, race leathers on, small backpack with minimum clothing and personnel stuff, ie credit card and toothbrush/jeans & t-shirts etc, take the long way there via the senic route over a few days, put your lass/wifey on a cheap easyjet flight to Alicante or similar, stick some cash in her pocket for a taxi to the nearest resort/hotel/villa with your spare clothing etc in her 10th suitcase and meet her at the far end. She's happy & your happy = result!!!
Stick her indoors back on return flight a few days later and you make a racing dash cross country to catch the ferry again...
