Travelling anecdote

Some years ago, we decided to go on holiday to Paris by car. We started the trip at six o'clock in the morning and we had planned to get to Paris arround five o'clock in the evening.
No sooner had we passed the border than my heart sank because of an strange noise that our car made. That was made by our car We had to pull in and stop in the middle of the motorway. At this moment we did not know what problem had the car but, to our horror, it did not work.
We gave a ring to the insurance company and, in fifteen minutes, we were inside a lorry going to leave our car in a park car. Having left our car, we went to the Montpellier airport to get a rented car. Finally, to our relief, we got to Paris at nine o'clock.
We spent a week in Paris including three days in Disneyland Paris and we got back to Mataró in other rented car. During the week in Paris we had managed to send our car to a garage in Mataró. Having got to Mataró, we went to the garage. The mechanic told us that the car had broken the gearbox! We had our car repaired in a week but the bill was very expensive!