“Well, it’s La Rochelle first, then lunch just the other side of it, and, if we get that far, just outside Lille for our next hotel. Lille in France, that is, not Lille in Belgium. You will have to be careful of that or you’ll book us into a hotel another hundred and fifty kilometres further on”.
The following morning, after breakfast, they got back on the road shortly after ten with Lek driving. An hour later, she swapped seats with Soom and sat in the back to keep Shell amused. Soom got them to a lovely little restaurant just off the motorway that she had chosen earlier, and after lunch started them off again.
“Today, we are going to cross through the whole of Belgium into The Netherlands, but don’t worry, it will be an easy drive because the country is pretty small. When we get there,
