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Attempting La Route de Napoleon
... yet… The nasty twist of misfortune came into life in the least expected place – as I was entering Gap (reminder: the sunniest place in the whole of France), it started raining cats and dogs! In some 20 or so minutes as I decided to call it a ...
Days Days 7 & 8
... that I am not the only one having this experience so maybe these have been tougher climbs. Interesting experiencing the different highways in France. Today we spent most of the day on an N highway ands it was fine, and certainly much less busy than ...
Gap - France
Wed 27.04.2011 – After Milan we decided to depart Italy for France. On the Autostrada you have to pay. You collect a ticket at the start and then before exiting you place it into a machine that calculates your toll, insert the required coins, boom ...
A beautiful drive through the Alps
No wifi yesterday so have posted yesterday's blog today. Just go back one and all will be revealed to you. Left Annercy at about 9.30am, we thought the traffic should all be gone by then. All good then roadworks up ahead. It took us 20 minutes to ...
On the way to Lake Como
It was absolutely stunning through the French Alps when we came through last Sunday and we opted to see if we could spend a night earlier than planned at the hotel we booked in Varenna, Lk Como, rather than look around Milan area which wasn't ...
Marmots!!!
... them playing and sunning themselves and happy to be photographed. Aside from the marmots, since we entered France we have been going up and down in very large quantities. We are following the Durance river as it makes ...
A minute in Provence
... hired a car and are planning to do a road trip over the next week and a half through Italy, Austria, Germany and back into France to Paris. It's great having our own set of wheels and we've already seen far more of the countryside than we would have been ...
could have been in england!!!
Saturday 14th Alessandria to Gap, France 320K The rain came back today with a vengeance. We had torrential rain for our run through the Southern Alps which was a great shame as the scenery was fantastic, when we could see it. It was also a Bank Holiday in ...
Ceuse
A few great weeks just cranking in Ceuse, France. Very busy this year, and a few of the big-name stars turn up to crank hard. Lots of routes up to ...
Skydiving holidays
Half a dozen times, to the Gap Tallard dropzone. It used to host the Vector Boogie every June and Bristol Uni students trained there. ...
Gap - and REAL showers!?!?
Fabrice is a legend, and lets us live it up in his apartment for a couple of days while we recover. Great to be able to shave (it's almost a month now :), and have warm showers :) Some fun parties also, don't ...
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