We wanted to leave around 10 o'clock but only managed 10.30. With the car stuffed full we said 'au revoir' to Henk and set off. We were not going back to Blighty just yet but making a detour to Les Houches, near Chamonix where we were to meet eight of our friends to go walking in the mountains. We made very good progress but after about two and a half hours all the traffic on the motorway stopped and up ahead was a large plume of black smoke. Five or six policemen on motorbikes with blue lights flashing went haring between the trucks and cars, then the Pompiers vehicles screamed along the hard shoulder! We sat there for more than an hour and a half whilst yet more emergency vehicles came by, even air ambulances! Eventually the police opened up a fence alongside the motorway to allow the cars to exit. We then had to negotiate the country lanes - a little reminiscent of our flooded journey down to Aphrodite! We abandoned the GPS in favour of Google maps which has an inbuilt GPS system far superior to our one in the car and managed to rejoin the motorway. Unfortunately we will never know what the hold up was all about. We arrived in Les Houches at 6 p.m., unpacked and waited for Andy and Goska to arrive. Our party were all arriving at different times - John and Susie were to arrive the next day late morning and the last four, Andy and Sally and Pete and Jan later in the day......then the party would start!!
Well that's all folks for Aphrodites' first leg this season - apologies for a sketchy report sometimes. You have to understand that serious reporting and serious partying do not fare too well together.
Back in early August!!
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