Day 10 and the trip is almost over. Today we head to our final French city Paris, before we cross from Calais to Dover tomorrow. We begin the day with our rally tests for the day and then have to head off to Paris. We do well we think and leave for our long journey positive that we're doing Scotland and the team at B4BMW and A4Audi proud! Its another 5 hours in the car today to get to Paris. I do the driving today as Gordon drove yesterday. My navigational skills have improved but not enought to deal with Paris. That said, driving in Paris should be quite an experience too!

Despite Gordon navigating, we get lost! And more lost and more lost! Eventually Gordon's ingenious idea of taking a photo of a map outside a metro station gives us something to follow through the city. 5 hours there and 2 hours looking for the hotel - what fun!

We do a little wandering about at night to see some of the city but we need sleep and head to bed very early as the next day we return to the UK and the finale ball that we're looking forward to! We will find out then if we have a coveted top 10 position and how many of the experienced Jobbers we've managed to beat even though our stop watch is little better than counting 1 elephant, 2 elephant, 3 elephant...!

We're on the radio again with Fred MacAulay on BBC Radio Scotland. We do the interview outside the casino in the bright morning sunshine sitting in the car. Not that anyone tuning in can see us but it seemed appropriate. Having finished our morning broadcast we set off for Lyon. This is a 5 hour trip. The rally is all but over - only a couple of days to go. Our friends are in 5th place apparently (team 39) and we're still hoping to catch them!

We set off for Lyon, passing Nice, Cannes and Marseille before heading north. Its getting colder and wetter, easy know we're getting closer to the UK!

The day begins with a trip to the famous Lingotto roof top test track - the track on the roof of the famous Fiat factory in Turin. We ascend the building in a convoy but sadly aren't allowed to go onto the track because of the bad weather. It really is strange to see a race track on the 6th floor / roof of a factory. The camber on the track is so steep I'm glad we're not rallying around the track in this weather or any weather!

The next leg of the rally is to take us to Monte Carlo, Monaco... In our infinite wisdom Gordon and I hatch a plan to take a short cut through the mountains. These mountains are not any old mountains, they're the Alps and what was meant to be a short cut turns out to be the longest cut in the history of rallying!

Day 8 and we've a long drive ahead to Turin - about 5 hours in the car. We have to leave early so are glad we were sensible the night before at the black tie function. This is not a timed stage however we need to be in Turin before lunch as there is an afternoon of special stages ahead there.

We also have commitments to Radio Scotland and are to be interviewed live on air on the Fred MacAulay show that morning at 10.10. Gordon does the driving so i can do the interview which goes well and gives us the opportunity to thank B4BMW A4Audi live on air for supplying us with the Mini which we have affectionately named 'Percy'!