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Back at the car we headed north to try and cover some distance before bedtime.
Considering that it was Friday afternoon, we had been making fairly good progress, right up to the point that we reached Basel. The motorway was completely jammed, so the sat-nav directed us off and we made quite good progress for about a mile before we came to a complete standstill. We crawled a short distance in a long time before getting fed up and pulling a U-turn. We picked a road perpendicular to the traffic misery and just headed in that direction down whatever roads were available for about 30 minutes, until we were well clear of the jams.
Then we turned north and drove until we had pretty much run out of diesel (managing 549 miles on one 50 litre tank - a personal best in the 1-series).
When we finally stopped for some much needed fuel, we checked for local hotels and discovered that a highly rated place called the Chateau de L’ile was only a couple of miles away, so we headed for that. It turned out to be rather nice and we had a lovely dinner in their brasserie.
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