Tuesday 17th.

Safely on our pitch at Croix d'Arles. We travelled up the Rhone valley, as far as Lyon, avoiding the toll roads. Isn't the Rhone wide? And the Rhone valley produces some brilliant wines. We passed all my favourite wine producers....... Lidl, ASDA and Tesco but sadly no Waitrose. 

We had lunch in a very attractive spot.... near Lyon. Funny how all the best stopping places are on the other side of the road. 

We then joined the Peage. Well, in truth, we tried to join the Peage but didn't like the look of the ticket machine that wanted to take money off of us rather than give us a ticket - somebody ought to write a book about using the Peage. We reversed out and did a three point turn and nobody hooted us or seemed at all surprised. We went back onto the road and joined the Peage later when it had learned its lesson and gave us a ticket without any trouble. We then drove about 180 miles ( I don't work in kilometres) and it cost use €30 which seemed quite reasonable until you think about it, then you think 'why are we being charged to drive on a motorway? We should charge them when they come to England'. 

So we got to our pitch at about six and now Kate is cooking sausages. 

Another Peage day tomorrow all the way to Callais.