We left the B&B reasonably early at around 10 and we estimated about 4 hours to get to the motor home near Montargis (south of Paris) giving us plenty of time for travel and stops, to arrive at about 4.30.
The trip was fine to start with but TomTom directed us to go directly through central Paris (being the most direct route) and we soon ran into very heavy traffic. The weather was fantastic and hot, but not necessarily the kind of heat you want when you're sat in slow moving traffic. It took roughly 2 1/2 hours to get to the other side of Paris and we were now definitely behind schedule.
We eventually arrived at the motor home at 6.30, feeling very tired and spaced out. We went through the paperwork and I was shown around the motor home and how everything worked, whilst Lorraine unpacked the car and started loading up the motor home (soon to be named Suzab by Callum). This was all taking a lot longer than we had thought and it was nearly 9 o'clock before we were ready to move on.
This left us no time to buy any provisions as everywhere was closed and too late to drive to the camping car site that we had planned to stop at. So we drove to nearby Chateuax de Renard and parked up in the market square, where we were told that we would not be bothered.
A takeaway pizza place was found and we took this back to Suzab and turned in for our first night on wheels.
