For the first time, I decided to drive into another European country—forget the fact that I have driven into both Wales and Scotland, because they are still part of the United Kingdom. And to be frank, I don’t even think we will soon have an independent Scotland State.
Though I did a bit of research to know the miles I had to cover for the entire journey from London to Cannes, located in the South of France, there was one thing that did not pop up in my research. I knew I would need to cover about 1100 miles, approximately 13 hours of driving to get to Cannes but I did not know there were several TOLL booths on the way and my my girlfriend-SassyChic who slept mostly throughout the journey had no idea too. I had to settle the road master anytime I came across one.
In fact, I wouldn’t even mention it if I was paying less than 5 Euros per a TOLL booth. We paid over 15 Euros for the first toll which we thought was a little too much. We got to the next one and it was over 35 Euros and then the next was 23 Euros. In total, we paid 97 Euros in Tolls before getting to Cannes.
I’ve never paid such number of tolls in my driving life. The only toll I’ve ever paid is when I drove into Wales some years back—and that was even below 10 pounds.
After we got off the ferry at Calais, we drove through Paris onto the A6 and then just before 11pm, it started raining heavily. It got pretty dangerous with all those big trucks running alongside us in the rain, on a road with no lights. And after driving for 5 hours with just one stop, I was damn tired.