Over a nice breakfast we chatted with the owner and then set off for the longish drive to Morzine. We went via Annecy where we had lunch at a lakeside restaurant, we had intended to look round the town itself but everywhere was very busy and finding a parking place was a nightmare so we went a little further along the lakeside. After lunch we made a short detour so that we could drive through Manigod, Phil's favourite place on Earth!! It is still very beautifu...

Our first port of call today was a visit to the Palace of Fontainebleau, one of the residences of all the Kings of France since it was built. It was very strange to find it in the middle of the town or city surrounded by very unimpressive and sometimes quite rundown, shabby buildings, we had expected either for it to stand alone in a large estate or to have an imposing entrance similar to Buckingham Palace in London. Just shows you shouldn't always have pre-con...

This morning we had a very nice breakfast before a quick tour around the chateau which was also a museum, there wasn't actually much to see here apart from a lot of dolls and toys but as any other visitors who came who weren't staying at the chateau had to spend 3 euros each to see the chateau we decided to have a quick look round, skinflints that we are!! A quick return to Lyon la Foret to take a few photos before we headed off on the next step of our adventure...

Off to a flying start, we had a really good drive to Dover arriving 2 hours ahead of our booked ferry time, straight through check-in and into our lane for boarding where the man asked if we wanted to go straight away and waved us straight on to the boat and by the time we were upstairs we were sailing out of the port! So arrival in Calais was 2 hours ahead of schedule and I then had to override my autopilot which wanted to get straight onto the peage to drive s...