In reply to yorkshireman:
> Sounds like code for some kind of wife swapping shenanigans!
How do you know ?
Back on topic. Drove back from costa blanca area at the back end of last week.
Driving through Spain and even England was pain free.
France. Drove down the previous month avoiding all tolls using google maps, sluggish to Poitiers then easy to border.
On way back used a combination of google maps and a real map. Google maps toll free seems obsessed with shortest distance and going through built up areas. I was attempting to take a practical route avoiding most tolls. Glad we only used the autoroute between Le Mans and Rouen, that bit alone cost 61 euro.
Part of the A10 was allegedly shut, quite a few manifestation signs which I guessed meant protests. Saw one tractor /hay bale road block manned by a single bored looking farmer.