Complete sunshine to complete garbage

Today was what turned out to be a short day of travelling, but still seemed to have lots of stuff happen.

Just a few photos added to the driving Flickr set:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/81692166@N05/sets/72157645709737341/

We set off reasonably early, and gave the keys back to the lady at the restaurant (she actually smiled this time!), before heading off down the hill in full sunshine. It was amazing how good stuff actually looked with the sun out:

The hills with the sun out

We flew down the motorway all the way to the Swiss-French border, which was basically the outskirts of Basel. I had a snooze - dad told me that there was a traffic jam while that happened. We had 12 Francs left over, so we decided to find a supermarket to spend them at. That turned out to be a challenge - the GPS failed us more than once trying to find one.

Eventually we found one and spent 11.95 of the 12 Francs, mostly on useful stuff, however there was a bottle of iced tea involved - we had to spend the 70 remaining cents on something! Onwards we went, stopping for fuel shortly after getting into France. Switzerland's taxes mean that fuel is as expensive there as it is in Italy, so we filled up in France before we got to Switzerland, and lasted the whole country on a single tank.

The first place we stopped at had a reasonable price, and through some minor hiccups we managed to get some petrol. While this was going on, we had to 'duck for low-flying objects' - the planes were flying by overhead within touching distance:

DUUUUUUUUCK!!!

Soon after we left the petrol station we got back on the motorway. This is one of the few motorways in France that is toll-free for a long period of time - over 100 kilometres! Unfortunately for the sake of taking photos, it started pouring with rain. And kept raining until we got to Strasbourg.

We had a couple of mishaps getting to the parking at the hotel, but we eventually made it! The 'free internet' that had been discussed via email turned out to be in the hotel lobby. There was limited seating space, and wired internet in the rooms was only 1 Euro per day. Sold!

Three full days here, hopefully we'll head to Colmar one of those days. Au revoir!