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Friday - We had given ourselves two days to get home, as I’m not sure it’s physically possible to drive 900 miles in one day. So we had a leisurely breakfast before leaving Radstadt in the mid-morning.
We made steady progress for the first couple of hours and were beginning to think that we might even make it was far as Brugge before dinner. Then we got to Stuttgart, at which point the traffic just ground to a halt. After moving about a mile in an hour, with the sat-nav indicating that all of the nearby motorways were stuffed, we decided to go off-piste and head cross country back into France.
It took us two-and-a-half hours to get onto a motorway near Strasbourg, during which time we drove through a massive thunderstorm and torrential rain and had a couple of those scary moments where the steering wheel goes terrifyingly light in your hands for a couple of seconds as you drive through a big pool of standing water.
Still, once we were on a French motorway we started to make brisk progress again. But we’d been delayed sufficiently that reaching Brugge was now out of the question. So we headed for Luxembourg instead, where we checked into the wonderful Sofitel in time for dinner.
This is a photo of the hotel’s impressive atrium.
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