Today we drove from Bordeaux to Clermont-Ferrand which took about 4 hours. We managed to phone some family and friends on the drive which made the 4 hours pass a lot quicker. Unfortunately Calvin was feeling a bit unwell - maybe a virus of some sort - so Kate drove while Calvin rested in the passenger seat. We arrived at our Ibis Budget accommodation at about 1:45. We just rested for a while in the accommodation to give Calvin some time to get better. We watched ...

Sad to leave San Sebastian this morning and the wonderful Airbnb and host Asier but onwards and upwards we go. Our target today was Bordeaux, France. Crossing the border of countries in only half and hour! Such a strange concept for Australians. We started our drive to Bordeaux by detouring to Biarritz (as suggested by Asier), a coastal town on the Bay of Biscay. Funnily enough, as soon as we crossed the border into France, the weather turned grey and the Spanish...

We left Lyon at about 9:00 this morning ready for the 4 hour drive to Carcassonne. It was a smooth drive with wider roads and not too many gear changes. We stopped on the way at a picnic/rest stop and had 2 minute noodles prepared using our flask of hot water. We reached Carcassonne at about 2:00 and checked into our hotel. As we only had one afternoon in Carcassonne we soon got back in the car to drive the 6 kms into the centre. We had planned to use public tran...

The main aim of today was to get the winter tyres put on the car. It was a pretty wet day so it was a good day to be doing boring jobs like this! We thought a trip to the Peugeot garage would be a good start – they were bound to have the winter tyres for our car considering our car is a Peugeot – wrong! They didn't have our tyres and the guy rang the main Peugeot garage who also didn’t have any. Plan B was to try Speedy – a garage chain in...

Lyon!! The food capital of France and possibly even Europe. The place where gastronomy was invented. The place where two rivers - The Saône and The Rhône - meet. It was also the place where we stayed in a fairly strange AirBnb. The listing said that breakfast was included however when Calvin hinted about breakfast, the hostess just showed him where the bowls and cutlery was. This was fine as Calvin and Kate had cereal and milk in the car but it was a li...