From Colmar to Boulogne Sur Mer a long drive

Following an early breakfast in the Hotel we left Colmar at about 09.15 and was a little surprised by the route the Sat Nav was taking us as it id when driving to Colmar as it seemed to avoid some decent looking main roads which may have been with Tolls. After about half an a hour we arrived at the entrance to a very long tunnel which we knew would speed things up and it insisted that we go by the windy side roads but we ignored it and carried on anyways as were already on the tunnel approach and no chance to turn whilst it keeps saying do a U-turn when you can, which was impossible. We then reverted to map reading and it was later in the day when Jennifer was driving that Noel checked every setting on the Garmin and discovered for some reason an entirely separate section of the set up regarding Toll Roads had been ticked to avoid. Oh well thank heavens it did not make to much difference.

By mid morning we were experiencing some light showers through to heavy rain requiring full lights and this meant we had to reduce our speed somewhat for safety reasons. The route took us to Nancy, then Metz and then on to Reims and this time were were on Tolled motorway and was able to move quite well and catch up a little time. It rained for pretty much all of the day until we arrived in Boulogne at arrived 17.00 and considering it was about 430 miles, according to Google, we thought our travel time considering the conditions but it is a very long way from one side of France to the other.
We were staying at the Ibis Hotel next to the old town and we were given a room on the corner of the building from where you could see the Cathedral which was nice although at at about 05.00 on Monday morning its got rather noisy. In the evening we visited  a restaurant we have been to before on a previous visit and the food was very good although due to his allergies ended up having a light meal. We got back to the Hotel at about 9.30 pm and sat up in bed reading for a while before lights out at 10.30