May 21, 2010 - Fri 21 - toward SW France

Trevor, drive a bit further to the left please The hire car is a mid green compact machine of the Opel Astra persuasion and has its steering wheel on the wrong side. Well, we both knew this moment would arrive - driving on the wrong (i.e. right-hand) side of the road. OK, a few laps of the car park to assimilate and we were on our way - slowly. It wasn’t long before we were out of Frankfurt (thanks to Ginny the GPS) and hurtling down the autobahn on the 1100 km drive to our French villa. The kilometres, scenery, minutes, rest stops, and...