What we found was not necessarily what we expected.
We were flying. The sun was shining. We were on our merry way. The next point of interest in the Journey was Bordeaux. Even though it was on the other side of the country, we were pretty optimistic that we’d make it in one day. We’d done our research on Google maps and it was apparently only 500 miles. Our journey to Lille was 350 and that included crossing over water. There was also nothing we really wanted to see in middle France. It would be a long but fairly easy slog through the countryside on a warm Sunday.