Journeys end.

Dijon seemed to have a slow start on monday morning as we got into town well before the shops had opened. Its a pleasant little city which we enjoyed strolling round and spying lots of lovely french courtyards looking for ideas for ours. We had a very french lunch where both boys tried and enjoyed escargoes ('texture of an over sized winkle with garlic flavored soil!'); bought tickets to disney land as a surprise and treat for the children as they have been so wonderful over the past 9 weeks; and failed to get jem school shoes as couldn't find a plain black pair - much too british!. Back at the camp site the children made friends with 2 older english kids and they happily collected conkers together until bedtime.
We decided to select the non motor way option in tomtom to paris so that we might explore a bit more of france (hoping to pick up a few antiques en route). We had a wild and windy stop for lunch rustling up some pasta in the middle of nowhere (another benefit of the camper) then with the weather turning bleak and no antiques in sight we headed towards the motor way coming across a vinyard south of chablis with 'cave vendre degustation' on a sign outside, so decided to stop to explore. A little impromptu wine tasting later or wine smelling for the driver, long french-english exchanges that neither party understood and after watching tractors hauling vats of red liquid around we packed our purchases into the wardrobe and set off again.
After 9 weeks of travelling without a single traffic jam we were oblivious to the fact that we were approaching le perifique at 5pm so it was a harsh reminder of what we are heading back to to drive 2 miles in an hour, but we made it round and ant excelled in his driving of a 7m long vehicle through rush hour. We did get a great view of the eifel tower though, even if it did take charlotte half an hour to see it. We still hadn't mentioned disney and the kids didn't pick up on the road signs so it was super excited children as we pulled up at the gate for our biggest value camping of the trip at only 13 euros you can park overnight with all the facilities you could need ie hot showers, loos, water and waste disposal and just a minute from the musical travelator taking you into the parks. (3 mins after we moved when we realised the music kept on playing all night). We went into the disney village that evening for a quick look and to pick up some info then back for bed.
The kids loved disney. We spent the first day in disney land going on rides together. Zoe took them all in wide eyed as we shot aliens on buzz light year or flew round london with peter pan or went into snow whites spooky forest. Charlotte was less impressed with the darker rides but enjoyed dumbo the flying elephants and sleeping beauty's castle. Jem loved them all. We abandoned plans to eat out that night as we were all too tired so headed back to bed. The next day we split up so that jem could do some of the more adventurous stuff in disney studios and the girls could cuddle princesses and the like. Ant dragged jem on the twilight zone tower lift plummeting ride (both were rather scared!) then they did the stunt show, high school musical and buzz again whilst we went to disney live on stage, round the world and then waited for ages to meet sleeping beauty which was worth it when she picked charlotte up and gave her a big cuddle and chat. Charlotte didn't stop beaming for the next hour. We met up again then a few more rides, parade and train ride, trip to the store to spend their allowance and then to the rainforest cafe to end an exciting day.
We decided we might as well camp there for the rest of our stay in paris so got the train into paris the next day at midday. We had arc de triumph, eifel tower and le louvre in our sights and managed them all. Torrential downpour at the eifel tower forced the all weather gear to be got out and on for the first time in the trip and i'm sure we looked a sight in the most chic city in the world kitted out in north face et al. but the beauty of travelling for so long is that you no longer care ;-)
Anyhow the view from the top was worth it. Feeling a bit hungry and realising it was almost 5pm we found a street cafe and had our last supper. Great food followed by chocolate mousse x3 and a choc gateaux for mum then off to le louvre as the sun was setting.
We were typical tourists in the museum heading straight for the mona lisa. Very enigmatic! Though there were so many people it was hard to stop and ponder. Jem and zoe saw her but by now charlotte was asleep in the buggy so a reason to come another day. Getting very lost with the lift system we managed venus de milo before deciding we ought to head back on the very packed 10.20 pm train for our last night in the camper.
Cake apples and milk for breakfast and a raid on the makapaka for zoe nappies (almost out of supplies) then as the weekend euro disney goers raced to park around us we emptied waste and refilled water and headed to calais for the euro tunnel and home.