North of Dijon to home - 390 miles
With some sadness, we set off on our last day from our farmhouse:
The first 50 miles or so were, by congested SE England standards, a brilliant run as we found the last little patch of green on the map and we had our last hoorah through the trees.
A brief stop for brunch at a small town patisserie:
...before the last excitement of the trip; the old grandstand at Reims:
The Beast did a couple of Le Mans starts for the gaggle of petrolheads filming and we got talking to a guy only a few years older than Jake who turned up in his Ferrari 360 on a dream trip to Italy. His car sounded great, like a V12 but was actually a V8 - not a stock exhaust, we think.
By sheer luck, there was a Lamborghini club there as well, in the grounds behind the stands:
I do love a Countach...
We pulled away (the Beast in a cloud of tyre smoke) and headed for the autoroute and the last 170 miles to Calais. We arrived early and managed to get on a train an hour earlier than booked.
On my last trip, England welcomed me back with a thunderstorm of biblical proportions; this time, it was a 14 mile average speed zone before an accident that closed the motorway - our 1 hour return took us 2 hours!
Map of the route:
Video of the last 2 days:
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