Day 18, Tuesday - trek back starts here

We got nearly everything packed away so in the morning we only had the tent and beds packed by 8am. The Dutch got out of bed to send us off. The girls were really good in the car and we got just south of Clermont Ferrand by 4pm. Very big campsite, a holiday centre in its own right, has a bar, restaurant, tennis, fishing, canoeing. We were put by the swimming pool and it was very noisy but the girls enjoyed it.

The diary stops here, ran out of pages and time after this, but the road back was certainly easier than the road down. Stayed in Le Mans the next night and the weather had changed, cold and wet. When we eventually got back to Formby, Mum was there to meet us, very brown, had wonderful weather all the time we'd been away. Did make me wonder why we endured the hardships to race south ...

Expenses Francs
Bread 1.25
Tea, coffee 9.00
Petrol 54.00
Bread and sausage roll 3.20
Petrol 40.80
Campsite 16.00
milk and vin 5.60