An autoroute day had to be undertaken, taking us from the north of Barcelona northwards towards the French coast. Half of that overall total distance (400ish miles) was planned for today, leaving the second half for Thursday.
As things turned out, the weather was fine and the traffic light, so we pressed on well over half way and ended on <500 miles for the day, giving us only a 4-hour jaunt tomorrow, to somewhere like Honfleur perhaps. We shall see.
The high spot of the day, in more ways than one, was the crossing of the jaw-droppingly beautiful Millau Bridge, a masterpiece of engineering. The low spots were two, both labyrinthine and frustrating trips towards and around motorway rest areas, clearly designed by someone who cut his teeth on those puzzles we had as kids in our comics, whereby anglers A, B, C & D sat at the corners of the picture, with their lines hopelessly entangled, and we had to work out which line had the sole fish on it.
Let it also henceforward be known that Ibis Style hotels have, in fact, very little.
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