PAIN, TRAIN, AUTOMOBILE

EVERYTHING’S BETTER IN FRANCE.

At least that’s what Mrs Burnett always says. But then she is French so she’s definitely biased. A holiday in La République is guaranteed then, but not how we get there. The plane is out – because Laura’s all into the environment and that – so it comes down to train versus car. She says the train is better, which I haven’t been able to work out. Maybe I’m biased. These things can get heated in the Burnett household.

And to cut a long story short, this is how I find myself sitting on a French motorway overtaking every Dutch person with a caravan. It’s 16 hours since I left the to make this cliched run to the south of France Nice and easy.