Early start this morning as today was the longest leg we had to drive. We had only been driving an hour before a humongous domestic erupted......... with the sat nav. She kept insisting for us to travel the motorway routes when we wanted to take the more scenic ones. 20 mins of " do a U-turn ahead", we switched her off and reverted to the old-fashioned road atlas. Travelled through some beautiful little villages and vineyards before arriving in Saumur on the banks of the Loire. well if we thought we have had a drought, you should see what's left of the river.... The pictures do not do it justice. it looks like an African-dried river bed.