Up bright and early, as we are wont, and we left the Camping Municipale at Metz at 7.30am, but we promised ourselves that next time we would stay on the free Aire just outside the campsite entrance with its beautiful views of the river, all for free!

We hit the motorway, drove through a bit of early morning fog, and began looking for a supermarket. It seems that very few of them had any sort of signage that you could see from the motorway, until it was too late and you were past the junction. We pushed on, stopped at a roadside aire for a cup of coffee and a short sleep before continuing. We stopped at the excellent Haute Koenigsberg services where we filled up with diesel at €1.47 per litre. Crossing at Basle, pausing only to spend €30 on a Swiss motorway permit, we drove on, arriving at our pre-booked site for the night at Camping Sursee (GPS N47.17481 E8.08649). A lovely, grassy site, friendly and helpful owners. We paid SFR30.00 for the night with electricity (around €18), they lent us an adapter for our hookup (Shuko connector needed), showers were all of €1.30 for a total of 12 minutes’-worth of tokens, and they sold cold beer from their fridge for a reasonable fee.

We walked to the lake through the forest, relaxed, chatted to some tugger from Durham next door, and relaxed some more.

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