During the first part of the trip, nothing interesting happened to us. We crossed Zaragoza and Barcelona quite quickly and without much traffic on the roads. In the French border, we passed without being stopped and in such an easy way that we got into the amazing French highway system. In the picture below, you have Mont Ventoux in the background, the mountain with snow and something like a lighthouse on the summit.
After passing Montélimar, the town with two nuclear plants around 20 kilometres, we reached Tournon-sur-Rhône. The town has not special remarks beyond the river Rhône. Wow, it is like Rhein and like the sea: an amazingly huge amount of water. It also has the first hanging bridge ever built in France. On one side of the river we have Tournon-sur-Rhône while on the other side we have a different town (Tain l'Hermitage), belonging to a different province. Watching this huge river, one realizes the importance rivers and bridges had in ancient times (when Romans conquered Gaul, for example).
Once we passed Lyon and went through France, we entered into Germany and everything changed. There are no speed limits in Germany and it results in driving very aggressively and too fast, for my liking. In this respect, French are better drivers than Germans (although Germany has more drivers in Formula 1 than France, but this is the topic here).Let's hope that my Internet connection works better and I can write more often about my second stay in Frankfurt.
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