If you are French, don't get your knickers in a twist! This wa sonly our experience.
Once off the train and into France, we drove toward Rouen on the m/way. You pay to use these, and it cancelled out the much cheaper cost of fuel. The first service area we stooped at was good. Good food and cheap and good service. (unlike Britian where such areas are crap, food is crap and expensive). The roads were relatively empty. We arrived at our first hotel in Le Man. le Man was not a nice place. The restaurent we ate in was good food BUT tiny portions! The main meal was just the meat with one fancy cut potatoe and a slice of tomato. No veggies. Not even available separately. Oh well, i thought we will finish with cheese and biscuits. When it arrived we had various lovely cheeses but no biscuits! Just a knife and fork! We left early the following morning. the weather was dull and wet. we went via Tours and Limoge. We eneded up driving all the way to our destination, Cardedeu, which is juts outside Barcelona, Spain. The 'scenery' was disappointing. We did plenty of off m'way driving but saw nothing much, only lots of run down villages and towns.(really our opinion of France changes later). (One thing I was very disappointed with in France and Germany was how Americanised it had all become-fast food all over and those shopping malls and conglomerations of business etc all by the roads etc. It was not what i had expeeireinced all those years ago). Howeever, everywhere we stopped, service was very good, polite and friendly. I was suprised at how much French i understood.) -- bw colin DAK,BRO GC, 950i, 940,860,864,890, 260,Silver 830,860, 580 and 270, Passap 6000, Duo80,Creation 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tantra-apso.com
