Driving to Switzerland and Back

Not necessarily the easiest way to get to Basel but driving isn't that difficult - it's a mere 600 (ish) miles from Letchworth and with a few breaks was managed in a day. Last Wednesday I set off at 6.00am - more to miss the M25 rush hour than any real need to get to Dover early - and arrived at the port 2 hrs later. The crossing to Dunkerque was calm and foggy and arriving in France around lunchtime I began the last 450 miles of the journey. It's an easy route via Belgium, Luxembourg and France again - mainly autoroutes and no problems. Driving on your own the SatNav (free from Magellan) helped enormously and managed to get me round the roadworks in Basel! I came back a similar way (avoiding Basel by going via Germany) and can safely say that you feel bored after 6 hours of autoroutes - and even more so when arriving at the sparse facilities at Dunkerque port.