Destination Orange - Day 2
We were away about 0920 after breakfast in the hotel. This time we took the A26 toll motorway. By 11am we needed a loo break near Chalons en Champagne. Plus it was coffee time! This time only coffee! Next was off at Troyes to get petrol. The exit from the motorway was some ten miles to the north of the city and as is quite common, the N77 was full of slow moving trucks using the N roads to avoid paying the toll charges. We pulled in the Géant hypermarket and filled the tank. The price was about 15 cents a litre less than the service area prices. The first fill up was after a tad over 300 miles and the car had averaged 37.34 to the gallon. We bought lunch in the store, a bread item with chèvre cheese and melted cheese to keep it on and a couple of strawberry tarts. Once we had meandered around to get back on the A26 we found it had finished and the A5 had taken over. Dijon was still around 170kms away so we stopped in the next "aire" and found a picnic bench to have lunch. The...