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For the last year Emily and I have been living in Kenya and have therefore not been able to take the car out very much, so it was a great joy to return home for the summer and get the car out for a nice summer of motoring, Â The plan was to use the car to visit our parents in Morpeth and Sutton Coldfield before spending some time in London, attending a wedding in Theys in the Alps and returning for a week in the Cotswolds. 
We started by digging the car out of the garage where my father had been looking after it for the last year and after a few family visits took the Norfolk Line ferry across to Dunkerque and our first night in a French Motel. The Car wonderfully but developed a misfire when running on gas which got steadily worse as we approached Paris, I believed it was the rotor arm but in the end it was a broken spark plug lead - one of the lowest maintaince trips I have done! 
Motoring through France was a dream after the pot holes of Kenya and the GPS we borrowed kept us nicely away from the motorways and on the free route nationalle as we wound our way through sedate villages all the way to the alps. At this point the car needed to switch the petrol as some of the passes we encountered were too much for the gas and it was petrol until we cleared the top and started to descend. The first time I have been unable to us gas due to driving conditions. 
Arriving in Theys was wonderful a very high up village with a pleasant town hall where we attended the wedding and a nice little Gite where we stayed this time. It had been over 300 miles to Theys from Paris and the route back to the UK was predicting 13 hours in a straight line so we broke the journey at Reims on the way back. 
Back in the UK we toured the Cotswolds for few days visiting the car museum at Bourton on the Water which was excellent and one or two local pubs. After which it was back to Kenya for another year and thoughts of returning home and being able to drive the car more regularly - interesting our car out here in a 1970 Citroen DS.
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