At the start of day 3..

It's Monday.... Where did that weekend go?

Oh yeah we did about 1000 miles of driving!

After a rude awakening on the ferry yesterday at 4:45am we arose to a showery morning rolling off the ferry in the dark it had been a smooth crossing but another short nights sleep.

The run across France started with some nice rural driving through some very old French villages.

Then out for the first of I'm sure many French pasty breakfasts this week.

Fuelled and on the road again to the Champagne region of France and with the karaoke version of "4 none blonds - what's up" to do we had some fun until....... Nothing really but more driving..

So in the vineyards we stopped to have a look at the dark grapes that are in harvest season at the moment.

Rain has been intermittent and not too bad at the moment.

The car has (so far - touch wood) been running well, there's the odd things that are non factory spec, the break squeak under 30mph and a whistling alternator but generally she's holding up well. Pushing 130kph on the A roads uses more fuel than sitting between 80 + 110 on the N roads so we will try and stay at a sensible pace and make it a little more relaxed for the rest of the week.

Anyway that's it for now, we have an exciting day planned today with the Swiss mountains. With a destination around lake Como just the other side of the hills.