Well, since we were there we saw no reason not to continue on to stock up our larder with all that the beautiful area of Burgandy has to offer (snails, meat… oh, and wine) and see how much we could shoe-horn into the capacious rear of our long-term Volkswagen Passat.
It turns out the answer is quite a lot of wine, several different French delicacies, a crate of beer picked up at the last minute on the ferry back, several people, their cases and bags and still have acres of room should we have really wanted to test out the customs officials at Dover.
We spent a week motoring through some of the finest countryside (and vineyards) that France has to offer, cruising hard down the AutoRoutes and inevitable passages of the Northern country before winding our way down some stunning Burgundian country roads which wind their way down the valleys and over the mountains of the region.