I am sorry to disappoint you anonymous person, but your analysis is useless!

There was an official campingsite (well lit and thus highly recognizable) next to the river where we had to enter the little dark road to our campsite started. Entering the road with the campsite on our right. We got dumped there at the end of the road with the camping on our left. I never stated that we drove all the way back to the bar again!

After passing the camping, the road was very dark, no lights, just the headlights of the car, so we couldn't see anything.

Mobile telephones were not invented yet I think, anyway we didn't have one and yes, it is possible that the clock in the car didn't work :@ I guess.

Still we know what time the bar shut down and it was technically impossible to have driven in the wrong direction because we then would have arrived in another village. The only other road we could take was a main road and very well lit.

I was crying because I was scared and also very angry at the same time, because I believed at that time we had just taken the wrong road.

good plan, but i've no idea where the campsite might be, leapoffaith, any chance you could give us an idea of your travels that night using the map as a referance.

I have found this link:

www.ariege-evasion.com

I am pretty sure that is is the same camping site although the name is not the same.

I have tried to zoom in on the google map Vanitas has posted, but it is not working on this computer (I'll try tonight at home).

Originally posted by pieman
good plan, but i've no idea where the campsite might be, leapoffaith, any chance you could give us an idea of your travels that night using the map as a referance.

Yes, good idea; that's what I thought.
Leapoffaith, if you can, pin the location of the camping site on Google Eart, for example, and post it here.
Or just tell us where it is - more or less - on the map above.

But it's not that important, anyway.
I just wanted people who are interested in this thread to see that it would be indeed very difficult to be driving for two hours in one direction and not seeing any villages at all.
According to the map, that would have been highly unlikely.
(Though not impossible, I imagine - nothing is impossible. )




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I try to post an external link to google maps, where I put the camping site and the place where we stayed, but it doesn't work. Help?




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After reading your account, and most of the details that followed.I can understand why most people would come to the conclusion of a time slip.My more reasonable side would suggest that the local french gypsy may have been in fact new to these parts and became somewhat lost.Or for that matter may have been drinking or was stoned himself and was disorientated enough to have lost his way.Taking into consideration that your time checks were completely accurate as is your feeling of having traveled on the road for two hours.It would be reasonable to say that your own perceptual distortions of time could be a result of perhaps passing out and waking up without any real recollection of doing so.Kinda like how sometimes when people lay on their beds and blink there eyes only to notice that time has jumped ahead 3-4 hours.It is possible to facilitate this under the circumstances of drinking and being stoned.This would explain why the french gypsy became frustrated, I to would feel a little frustrated driving through a country-side that I am not familiar with, saddled with a load of passengers that I don't know very well who keep passing out.That and the state of being passed out, it would be nearly impossible to determine if the driver had turned through a few side roads or for that matter making a U-turn.It takes only moments for a car to turn and then continues to be going straight again to the appearance of the casual observer.It is possible that both you and your boyfriend passed out at similar times having the same mix of alcohol and drugs,if you have similar body types this is especially true.Considering your placement in the vehicle it would be unlikely that changes in each-others state of awareness could be noticed from either party, you in the backseat and your boyfriend in the front seat.Your boyfriend would have to turn around to face you, and you would be unable to see his eyes very well from the backseat.

Though that is my reasonable observation.

On the other side of the coin, the gypsy himself may have detected a sudden change in the atmosphere.I don't know much about gypsies so I can't tell for certain whether or not this is a random event or maybe something that initiated by the gypsy.Evidence of a time paradox would of course be in how you yourself responded in the after-effect.That part would of course be right before the time when he removed you from the vehicle.You may not remember exactly how you were feeling or any obvious distortions in reality as I would imagine you would have been confused and somewhat afraid so details like these would be hard-pressed for memory.

Though there is one question that remains.Were you conscious of the full two hours that had passed by?

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