Today has been rather a challenge! We set off from Luxembourg no problem at 9am and headed south on the motorway towards Metz with visions of a 6 hours trouble-free journey (Ha! Ha!). It wasn’t long before the traffic ground to a halt and continued at snails pace and we soon realised it was more tractors than you could imagine with the French farmers blockading the roads with some sort of protest.
After sitting in this for a while Carl’s Vanimal was not a happy van so we got off the motorway, detoured and got on to an alternative motorway only to be met by yet hundreds more tractors. We then detoured again and got on a further motorway only to take the wrong turning and set off on the motorway back to where we’d met the tractors in the beginning, passing yet a load more tractors on the opposite carriageway! We then took the back roads and got on the motorway further along with Carl’s van a bit poorly.
After stopping for a bite to eat, we set off again only for our Mini to start seriously mis-firing and we had to stop for another hour whilst the electronic ignition was changed for conventional points and 3 lots of Black Magic Gloves did their stuff. By this time it was 2pm and we still had about 5 hours journey plus stops. As it got dark, we left the motorway for the final climb to Davos. We climbed and climbed in the dark and snow around Alpine Roads with Alpine drops over the edge of the barricade into the dark!
We eventually arrived at our hotel in Davos in the Swiss Alps much relieved and covered in snow, we’re just waiting to see what tomorrow brings to see if the Stelvio Pass is passable.
