Bonjour Mes Amis

Today we spent hours working out our holiday for this year. We've been talking about 'doing' France for years and having not had a proper holiday for almost four years this year we're going to do it. There are two reasons for why we never got over to France. Firstly, it would cost too much to fly and hire a car to see all that we want to see and secondly taking our own car would mean spending several days driving virtually non-stop on the wrong side of the road. However while the former is still a problem, the latter I can do something about. So come June we're packing up the car and heading south, (approximately following the route marked on the map). A couple of overnight stops on the way down through central France to the Mediterranean coast where we're going to spend a few days then another few days travelling through the Pyrenees to the Atlantic coast, via Andorra. Then another few days driving back up the other side. The plan is, in two weeks, to travel around 3000 miles, explore many places, climb several mountians, eat lots of good food, drink a few bottles of good wine (and bring a few bottles home with us), and anything else we find to occupy our time!