Road Trip

On the night before I was going to depart for Nice, one of the other students, a Canadian who was there doing the course through his employer, Volkswagen, suggested that as he was going south to ski we should go together in his car and share costs.  That sounded pretty good to me so I took him up on it.
However what I hadn't anticipated was the cost of using the toll roads, which I stupidly had offered to pay for.  That trip cost me probably more than it would have on the train.
Also we stayed somewhere near Dijon I think, and the place was a flea pit, with dog poo on the concrete stairs.  I'm pretty sure that he paid for that part.
The next morning I said that my plans had changed and I was now going to Lyon instead and got him to drive me to the train station.  He would have been disappointed to lose his cash cow.  Oh, and I also paid for dinner and he claimed the whole price back from his employer.  What a skinflint!