Campanile Valence Nord
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Cruising from Viviers to Tournon
... through the lovely village of 4,000 residents. The cathedral and houses were beautiful to photograph. The boat then continued north up the Rhone. We went through locks constantly going higher and higher. Lunch was another delicious meal. It rained through lunch and the sun came out as we finished lunch. Time to relax and watch the lovely Ardeche region with cute villages and towns set against mountains and rock outcroppings. Some reading, ...
Choranche Caves
... near the water. They said that was not a problem with them and it meant that they didn’t have to take a complicated and expensive train ride and we got to head south for a bit where it was warmer! So we got out the maps, checked out the route and headed off to get as close to the Italian border as we could. It turns out that the perfect spot to camp was back in St. Michel de Maurienne where we had been just over a week before to do the Telegraph/Col du Galibier ...
Escargots & Grenouilles
... back, I spotted a board outside a hotel with the evenings’ menu on it. I thought I better stop off in order to have done my due diligence. And good thing I stopped, because lo and behold, I had struck gold! Rod had been wanting to have escargot and grenouilles in France. Maybe it was fate, maybe just sheer luck, but both of them were on a single menu! These items are not very easily found and two find both on the same menu was definitely lucky. I ...
Into the Alps we go
... NIL rain and 35+ degree-days so our stuff was sprawled everywhere…I raced out and put it under cover and settle back down to sleep. Not long after we were awoken by a massive thunderstorm! Torrential rain pelted down on us, and some m************s of thunder right over our heads rumbled through the night…
28/8/12
We had a large sleep in and woke to Blue skies, as if nothing had happened the night before. We put the tent in the sun to dry and packed up our gear. ...
What an experience - Tour de France
... the sun.
Sandy had excelled, plenty of food, drink, comfy chairs and Oz flags
I was amazed by the procession of officials and semi-officials. Firstly it was the Romanians / Gypsies selling flags on sticks for 1 euro. Then the ofificals selling T Shirts, umbrellas etc. These were interspersed by massive carloads of press, photographers, official cars, police, more police. Then we had a car painted in 'Kawasaki' green, accompanied by ...