Saturday would have been chaotic on the roads leading to the Alps even if the weather would have been nice. But it snowed, and many tourists on their way to the sky resorts, or back from them got stuck for hours on the various motorways around where we live.
We wanted to avoid traffic jams at all cost, so we had decided we should be back home by Friday evening at the latest. That meant leaving Bala on Thursday morning.
We crossed England and experienced the worst of British motorways: 7 hours drive under the rain in heavy traffic.
We crossed the channel safely and slept in Calais before a long journey home: 860km to Chambéry. But we experience the best of French motorways: 10 hours drive with little traffic, and after a few hours we even saw the sun. We avoided the chaos of Saturday. It was quite fun to see pictures of the motorways we had been driving on a few hours earlier now covered in snow, and cars stuck.
But this journey has left us washed out. We are still feeling a little tired three days later.
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