Things that go Bump in the Day

An additional blog entry following an adventurous journey to Mont St-Michel. Things were ok for 1st hour and then we hit a toll booth, all previous routes we picked up a ticket at an initial booth and then at the next booth we paid with coins. Not so this time, as we guided car into the relevant channel, we had to place a ticket into the machine to pay, however from Rouen we had not met the magic ticket machine or the magic ticket fairy. We were stuck. As my blood pressure rose we put on hazards and started to reverse until Mr Francois (bespectacled and smoking a large cigarette and driving a Citroen) decided to rush into my lane, blocking my exit and his journey. Despite the hazards and reverse lights he went into an apaleptic fit and waved his hands like an animated Magnus Pyke. When the centime finally dropped he reversed with eyes of fury into another channel. Frustrated by his ignorance I continued my manoeuvre but failed to see the Sonic style obstructions and the grinding metal sound as I reversed brought silence to the car. When I finally passed to next level and stopped to see damage, I have a scar that any East End Glaswegian would be proud of on my driver rear end.

Anyway we finally got to Ducey which is a drive and 5 iron to MSM and were greeted by a lovely hotel on the site of an old mill on the banks of a beautiful river.