Ouch .... On the bright side it's a minor inconvenience and you're still adventuring - looks a great area Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
This is amazing. Shame about the window. Think I’d have tried to carry on driving and get off at next junction- easy to say in hindsight. We’re off to France next week. I’ll try and see if I can get wifey to do a write up. Caen to ?? Then to biarritz then to Montpellier then heading back north to caen. Slightly worried about the fires, but we’ll see what happens with that. [mention]lost-en-france [/mention] How’s it looking round your way?
Hi Ray - I was so tempted to carry to the next exit but when the screen went it really shattered; I couldn’t see out and some fist-size holes developed showering us in lumps of glass. Hope you have a great trip to Biarritz and share pics and places! Sisteron was equally good at night - lots of lovely narrow streets full of bars and restaurants and not too many tourists. The campsite at Les Pret Hauts was a pleasure; we rented a couple of bikes to do the 1.5 mile trek into town. Coming back on them in the dark on smooth quiet roads, downhill with a warm breeze was magical like being a kid again.
We have smoke some evenings, but the fires are miles away, it hasn't rained in the "Lot" for months Sent from my ART-L29 using Tapatalk
30 odd years ago I went on a skiing trip to the Alps; the plane landed in Grenoble and a bus took to the resort via Annecy and its lake. I was blown away by its beauty and promised myself that one day I’d return to Annecy because it be be a sure way to impress a girl. Well, the wife of 20+ years had to wait a while but was duly impressed. We made the mistake of just rucking up without pre-booking and had to do some frantic phoning around before we found the last, smallest pitch ever at the Le Lac Bleau on the head of the lake. The southern end is the most spectacular surrounded by larger mountains - the water is swimming pool-turqoiuse. Le Lac Bleau has its own beach, beach bar and is next to a much bigger and better public beach and small marina which more than made up for the pokey, kindergarten chalets-surrounded plot. Just a fabulous place to relax, enjoy the scenery, watch the swarms of paragliderists and be cooled by the breeze off the lake. The best way to enjoy Annecy town is to arrive by boat-bus (it was a glorious hour on the boat running up the entire length of the lake) and not to stay any more than two hours - it’s a bit of a tourist trap filled with restaurants, ice cream parlours and tat shops. Mind you the traffic jams were awful….
It would be rude not to show you this alternative view.... Edit...I knew I had another photo somewhere showing your bench m' lord!
Ha - there were flocks of paragliderists overhead - I thought you must have been here! It was a great bench to sit on and deserves mentioning in any tourist guide…
On the home leg now. Quite a long drive back to Loches to meet up with some other friends with an prototype bay - great to see them and spent a great couple of days mooching around the citadel again. Trying to find a restaurant was surprisingly difficult especially for five - everything seems to be closed from Sunday to Wednesday. My friend with the prototype bay had just been saying he really fancies a Thing/Trekker/181 and how he was spending too much time looking at them on’t ‘net when we walked into this little gem…
