Arenes in NimesWe set off early this morning, packed up to the rafters as usual. It’s always sad to leave the house and the village.

We got across the border, where it was howling and stopped at a service station north of Perpignan and as we started the engine up again, we heard an ominous crunching sound. Hmmm. Breaking down in France is the worst possible scenario. They tow you off the motorway (if you want to or not) and we don’t speak the language. We drove to a safer spot for Geoff to examine under the car, but couldn’t recreate the noise. In the end we carried on.

Our first destinaton was Nimes, to see the Roman ruins. We got there without a hitch. The arena in Nimes is one of the best preserved in the world and well worth looking around. After that we looked around the narrow streets and soaked up the athmosphere. It’s a lovely place. On carrying on the journey, the winds in the Rhone valley were even worse than along the coast and passing lorries was tricky. Geoff grew Spock ears listening to the engine and transmission, but we got to Annecy ok.

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