[stunsworth]

One of the great things about driving on the motorway in France as opposed to the UK is that you can more or less guarantee that you'll be able to travel at a decent speed - even if the speed limit in the dry is 130 kph :-)

Paris is the exception to this, but even so it's still usually better than here in the UK. When I travel from North London to Manchester the distance is 200 miles, motorway all the way, and the journey usually averages just under 5 hours!