It wasn't our fault!

To save pennies and to see more of France we have told our Sat Nav' to avoid toll roads. This means the journey takes longer but we have driven through some lovely scenery and towns and have not met a traffic jam until today!.
We tend to go right through the centre of some lovely towns that have some very narrow streets, so far without incident. Today we ended up entering the pretty town of Poligny where as usual the street was getting narrower but the progress of a petrol tanker in front of us gave the confidence we needed. Suddenly the petrol tanker stopped and almost reverse parked into the side of the road in front of us and behind a large skip lorry. On the opposite of this one way street were a line of parked cars and that left a space just enough for a car to get through but not us!. I was in the centre of the road with nowhere to go so I thought I would wait patiently for one of the lorries to move. The clock was ticking and in my rear view mirror the busy street behind me was full of french cars now back as far as I could see!. Then, the inevitable happened, one honk followed by several others and all obviously aimed at us totally blocking the centre of this busy main street. I let the honking go, not ruffled at all and eventually sent Lorraine out to ask the driver of the petrol tanker in her best friendly french when he was going to move. Lorraine was met at her open door by one of the French motorists who had now walked up to us gesticulating for us to move over. Lorraine explained 'we can't'! (couldn't find the word for patience!) as to which he looked ahead at the two lorries and embarrassingly realised it wasn't our fault. Suddenly the skip lorry finished picking up his load and both lorries moved off and enabled us all to progress nicely to unblock the town again.
Things happen in threes don't they?. well, on arrival at our campsite further on it was somewhat disappointing and certainly not as described. With no one in sight we examined the run down buildings and muddy pitches and quickly left before the warden appeared!. I hadn't turned the Sat Nav back on properly and went around a part of the town I thought to bring me back on the main road!.. No, it was another 'no entry' and this time I managed to stop just before them. Luckily the town was in its siesta and there was nothing around so with Lorraine out in the main road I managed to reverse back out of trouble and on we went!.
We have found a lovely campsite tonight (Thurs 12th) and we will blog further before we reach Lake Geneva at the weekend!

Au revoir