The Two-Day Drive

I am now sat on my bed in a hostel in Annecy, extremely tired from all the driving but feeling much better for being here. 

Friday - Monday:

The drive started Friday afternoon when I set off from home to W's house on the outskirts of London. We had a lovely weekend together, seeing the Sea Life Aquarium, going to see White House Down at the cinema, and going to a restaurant called Bodean's BBQ on Saturday evening and T.G.I. Friday's on Sunday afternoon. I left Monday morning around 7.15am and it wasn't great. The M25 wasn't too busy but there were road works and it seemed to go on forever. I eventually got off the M25 and onto the road towards Dover for the ferry! I had to go out of check-in and go back later because I got there "too early" (last check in was 10.30 and me being there at 9.15 was "too early"...). Nevertheless, I eventually got on the ferry and when I came off at Calais I managed to drive on the correct side of the road! Driving on the motorways seemed pretty easy but once I got to Reims and I was completely lost the roads seemed incredibly hard to navigate. The hostel I stayed in (CIS de Champagne) was fairly nice and I slept quite well in the end. I had a delicious pizza in a nearby restaurant but couldn't eat it all because I was literally falling asleep with the fork in my hand! So in the end I just paid and went back to the hostel and got in bed!

All in all, between Friday and Monday I drove around 374 miles.

Tuesday:

On Tuesday I drove from Reims to Annecy with a short stop at a service station outside Dijon. I have never driven anywhere so beautiful. I really wish I had one of those bonnet cameras some people have on their cars because everything past Dijon was so incredibly amazing. Seeing as I don't have one of those cameras, I managed to find the awe-inspiring spot on Google Maps Street View. Below is the moment where I quite seriously said wow and smiled for a while taking in the view. Obviously it wasn't snowing when I drove through, and because of that I could see even more. The road winds through the mountains and goes underneath some as tunnels and you go right past the border with Geneva which was also pretty cool.

I got to the hostel around 4.15pm and had to find somewhere to park before bringing in all my stuff. I'm in a 4-bed all female dorm room, but at the moment it's just me in here which is fine by me, at least for this first night because I'm knackered and don't want to put up with other people's stuff. I've made myself a little nest in the corner because I've got some shelves and whatnot. It's currently about 9pm and I think I'm going to do the same as last night and get in bed. I never imagined driving so far would be this tiring, but I guess you learn something new everyday!

On Tuesday I drove another 352 miles, making my trip a total of 726 miles!