We left Benassay around 9.30 and due to a couple of unforeseen hiccups 8 hours later arrived in the medieval town of St Antonin Noble Val. First mistake was following the sign that read (Bis) Toulouse. We knew that ultimately we wanted to head towards Toulouse, as St Antonin is in that direction (some 80 kms away from Toulouse). After about 20kms we figured that “Bis” must mean “scenic route” or something very similar as while we still headed in the right direction, we certainly were going through some windy time consuming back roads. We probably lost about 25mins before getting back on track, and heading to Limoges on the A-route (basically the open motorway where you can hum along at 150km/hr and still get left in the dust of the locals in their 1.3L 1987
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