Traffic jam

Licques to Troyes

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May 25th 2011
Woke to a gloriously sunny, blue-sky day and set off straight away heading south. We had decided not to use the motorways for this leg of the journey but Bob had had difficulty when planning the route in finding a non-motorway one which went North / South as all round the area we had to travel the roads go East / West instead to converge on Paris. Bob did find a route and the first 1/3 of it at ... read more

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