It was another day of ticking over lots of k's. This time we were backtracking to Italy some 350 clicks. In fact I think we are just about averaging that a day for the last 2 weeks. This time though we were hitting the tolls from Arles, all the way to Monte Carlo. It was double the time on the back roads so we didn't have much choice. Now this was the time I wished we hadn't gone the economy car route. We are in a Lancia something or other. It is a 1.3 litre dies...

A nice relaxing start today as we had a nice leisurely 50k drive to Arles. We arrived mid morning and headed straight to a laundry to wash the bourbon from my clothes. With that done we checked in to the hotel then returned to the tourist info centre in town. There a young French girl told us what we needed to know and joked around with us, giving us her best Aussie accent. We bought a pass from her then wandered around town seeing the sites. The town is famous f...

The alarm went off at 7am after not much sleep. We organised a new plan. Carcassone is one of those places I have always wanted to see but it will have to wait until later in life. With the last few days rushing by we hadn't been enjoying it too much. So we reevaluated and have decided to wear the cost of accommodation in Carcassone and book somewhere closer. Well we won't really be out of pocket as the tolls and fuel to get there would probably be more than a ni...

Up at 5am then on a bus to the airport. We arrived and checked in then said goodbye to Spain. We arrived in Milan at 10am, grabbed our hire car and headed southwest into France. We tried to avoid the tolls but the gps let us down a little so we had to fork out for a few. As we were avoiding the tolls we were sent to the back roads and had a lovely drive through the Italian countryside. We then started to hit the mountain and realized we were about to cross the al...

Up at 6am and gone by 7 from our camping ground. It was was still dark as we set off for the long drive to Barcelona. We avoided the tolls so the trip took about 4 hours. We arrived in Barcelona with time to spare so dumped our packs at the hotel then drove out of the city to drop off the van. We didn't really expect the depot to be so far out so glad we got rid of our packs. We caught the train back in as the rain began to fall. It was also the coldest day of ou...