Zooming home - Goodbye Avignon!

Goodbye, 5 Rue de la République 

The trip home needed us to take two days to do what we'd previously done in three, so it involved a lot of tolls roads. At the end of the first day, we turned off about 60 miles from the target, Chaumont, and did some relatively successful bimbling, which made a pleasant change, although the motorway hadn't been too grim, to be honest. And it was getting cooler...

Avignon - Chaumont



Chaumont - Reading



The hotel in Chaumont was ok. No beer snacks though, so we ended up walking to the Intermarche and buying some nuts and crisps to offset Jim's hunger knock! This enabled an exploration of Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems in the nearby park, Wikipedia helps a lot sometimes...

We ate in the restaurant after a democratic choice between the Buffalo Grill and the hotel. Really nice food - giant grilled proawns for me, pastried salmon for the others.



The final day was pretty good, strangely, possibly because it was much cooler, we were able to go further with less effort. We did meet a motorcycling couple from Reading who had looked strangely familiar - turns out he is a director of Warings bakery, and probably knows Jim by sight anyway. Small world. Like we need proof of this...

And the last run from Folkestone wasn't too bad, although it did involve a lot of filtering, given the parked cars on the M25! Nice to be home.

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