A fairly innocuous day travelling from Montreuil to Mery Sur
Cher – about 250 miles. Actually that’s
a total lie. The sat nag route wasn’t
checked thoroughly before we left and it sent us to Paris, instead of via Rouen. There was no obvious way to re-direct so we
decided to continue as it was a second option anyway. This was going to mean a trip around the
dreaded Peripherique. Not only that but
Paris has a new motorway which it kept directing us to – the downside of this
was that it was a tunnel and had a height restriction of 2m and we are over
3. So not only did we have to navigate
the peripherique, we had to do it without the help and actually with the hindrance
of the sat nag.
Finally we were out of the clutches of Paris and the rest of
the journey went smoothly. But at least
for our adventure I can say that I drove a 7.5 tonne truck on the Peripherique
AND SURVIVED!!!!
We stayed on an aire again which this time had electricity –
the first time we’d had electricity for days so were able to watch a bit of TV
in the evening and to get everything charged. We had arrived at around 3.30pm
and only one other van was there, by about 7pm there must have been 7 or 8 vans parked up. We are always surprised by how many
motorhomers like to travel during darkness – we hate it and also like to get to
an aire early before they get too full.
For some reason the
electricity tripped in the night but we didn’t mind as we were off - oh and another
free night.
When planning the route Mr Always asked me if I wanted to go
over the mountains or the long way round.
Well I looked at the map and considered that a) the roads would all be
motorways and b) they weren’t too wiggly so probably they would be ok. We had gone through the Ardeche Gorge in
Vanessa a few years ago and that was the scariest drive I’ve ever done. Iain was driving and I was pleading that he
slowed down when he was only doing 10 mph.
I said then that I was very scared and he said “You’re scared, I’m 6
feet nearer the edge than you”. Why do
we torture ourselves like this? Is
adventure supposed to scare the hell out of you?
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