On the road to Normandy

A little rain but the real drama was the freezing cold temperatures and 100kph winds blowing strongly from the south west right off the Atlantic ocean. The bikes constantly ran on choke mode so the fuel consumption was astronomical. Worse still was the lack of fuel stops along this main highway to the south west.
At one point we were nearly running on empty as the reserve lights would soon come on.. We had no idea where the next petrol station was located. The Garmin Zumo 550 GPS was asked to find a petrol station so with our luck it took us to one off the main highway some 20kms west of the road.
The petrol station of course was abandoned and had been decommissioned. A slow limp back to the highway where every 20kms or so we continued to encounter those ridiculous toll booths.
At the last point in our desperation we were travelling at 60kph while all the traffic went around us and regularly sounded their horns basically telling us to speed up or get off the road.
All of a sudden the sun came out, we negotiated a broad sweeping bend and there it was...a petrol station. To say we were thankful was a gross understatement.