Its along way to Colmar

After an early breakfast we headed off and had decided to stay within France for our journey north as to enter Switzerland would require the hassle of purchasing a motorway pass for £ 35.00 which last’s a year but we would be there for only a couple of hours and so blow that and therefore we headed off in the general direction of Lyon and then turned North.
In the early stages of the journey the weather was a bit cold but at least bright and some of the roads we went down were really very nice and then the weather changed totally and we had heavy rain and the clouds came down and that slowed us down quite a bit. Add to this the amazing amounts of roadworks en-route and it seemed that just about every motorway or main road was subject to change and quite frankly some of the changes looked totally over the top, So either this is a method to keep employment up or France is taking money from the EU to replace its road system but whichever is true there was a lot off it going on.
We stopped a couple of times for a break and also a picnic and we eventually arrived in Colmar just about 17.30 after a long day. A shower then off the the in- house restaurant which was not to bad and together with a bottle of Pinot Noir which is a local wine it was not to bad. Then back to the room where we watched the film about Laurel and Hardy which was quite good but shows the risks of fame and failure.
Because the weather was not kind we did not take any photo’s.
This was a long day in the car for reasons mentioned earlier and so an early night was called for.