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| Total 633 miles |
It's now time to head for home although we've got plenty of it so there's no rush. However we decided to go more or less direct and pickup the route we used on the way out. So once again in hot sunshine we headed off, firstly into Lugano where TomTom decided a tour of the town would be a nice change! Grrrrrrr! However we soon got back onto the right road and headed along the A2 to cross Switzerland. The St Gothard Pass was still closed but we were going to use the tunnel anyway, our Swiss toll papers still being valid so nothing more to pay. It was a pretty direct route through picturesque mountains on a generally clear and sunny day with the odd cloud and shower, routing through Lucerne and lots of tunnels then on to Basel where we crossed the border back into France.
Realising that
Kaysersburg was only a little farther on than our target of Colmar,
we headed there as the Aires guide mentioned a market on Thursday
afternoon/teatime which sounded good. Unfortunately market day had
been changed to Wednesday, but it was still nice to stroll around
with the usual ice-cream dripping all over us!
Friday was a cross
Luxembourg day to get a tankful of cheap fuel. The fuel computer kept
assuring us that we had enough diesel but the gauge didn't seem to
agree, especially when the warning light came on so we crossed
fingers and just made it to a service station where we got 78.7
litres into the 80 litre tank! Lunch then carry on, the sky clouding
over a little but still very warm and we resorted to the
air-conditioning – just to keep Jamie cool you understand. Our
destination for tonight was Han sur Lesse in Belgium and we'd decided
to stay 2 nights at this lovely aire, meeting up with a couple of
Funster vans on their way home from Germany. Not so impressed however
when we found the price had increased from €9 to €12 – must
have been a change of season. But it does have all we need, including
electricity.
And so we spent a
pleasant, if very warm, couple of nights then Sunday saw us back on
quiet motorways across Belgium and into France, passing through a
couple of very heavy localised rain showers which had the effect of
significantly freshening the atmosphere and dropping the temperature.
We noted a 12 deg decrease from our lunch stop to Gravelines where a
very pleasant sea breeze at 23 deg was welcomed.
Having checked out the
vet, our plan now is to take Jamie for his Pet Passport check
tomorrow, a further night here to comply with UK regulations then up
to Calais on Tuesday, ready for our Channel Tunnel booking on
Wednesday morning.
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