As you know from my last post,  we have been on holidays for a week, seeing family in France. This is the first time we have travelled by car, as we have felt Emma is old enough to cope with long journeys and fully capable of entertaining herself in the back seat. Here are five tips we wish we had been given before starting on this long driving journey: 1. Allow for stops along the way. There has been a hilarious incident on a French motorway involving an emergency lay-by and a little girl who was bursting to go to the toilet! Those lay-byes will forever be engraved in our memories as “pee pee spots” and needless to say, Alex has learned his lesson now and is unlikely to ever miss a filling station or services sign again :-)! 2. Allow for ample travelling time and enjoy the landmarks on the way. As soon as we touched dry land in Cherbourg, Normandy, we wanted to explore. We took a little detour and visited Omaha beach and …