The Long Drive ..........Thursday was the start of the adventure and we headed to the Euro tunnel to catch our allotted train - A very simple process of self service ticket printing and minimal customs presence enabled us to catch an  earlier departure time 10:20am. We were ushered on to the train and then drove through the center of the carriages to our potion.

On arrival in France the sun was a welcoming sight and we headed towards our first  site east of Troyes some 400 miles away. The driving was great with quite good quality roads on the peage. One thing we have found slightly annoying is that we cant get any where near any of the large outer town supermarkets as they are really poorly signed and they are always on the other side of the page. So we decided to head into a few smaller towns to get some essentials only to find they have height restriction barriers ....bloody annoying. So we are still surviving on our last shop from the Co-op. I'm sure we will sort this out as the beer is running low...

Our first stop off is a site called La Forge de Sainte Marie  a very nice site with good facilities apart form the showers & toilets - well it is France and we all know that the French don't wash..... and from what I have seen from the facilities I can understand why.

Our next move will be on Sunday when we'll head back North to Remis to a small vineyard where we'll stay overnight and then start our move towards the west coast and then onto the Pyrenees.