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Travel Blogs from Les Orres
Briançon
Mägge and Hille left early in the morning to head back to Davos. We set off to Briançon to explore one of Vauban's fortified towns. Vauban was a military engineer to King Louis XVI during the mid-18th century. He designed around eight fortified towns in the region, including Briançon, which is now a UNESCO world heritage site. The town is known for its many sundials so we enjoyed hunting for them as we went on our walking tour. We ...
Col d'Izoard
... sauce, accompanied by fenouils gratinée (fennel covered in baked cheese). On to our third course, the cheese course, we were greeted with some bread and a large ceramic pot. I curiously opened up the pot and put a large scoop of cheese onto my plate and Rod’s. The cheese was a home made cheese that was really pungent and definitely required an acquired taste. Thankfully, it was made of cow’s milk otherwise I don’t know if I would have been eating it. ...
The half way point
... that looked part Aussie explorer, part American cowboy. Have no idea what the connection is to here. We are now in our stop for tonight, a smallish town called Barcelonnette. It has an unusual connection to Mexico somehow (sculpture didn't look Mexican -no sombrero) so a lot of the cafes and restaurants serve Mexican food. I think some of the town folk fled religious persecution many, many years ago and ended up in a Mexico. This town is surprising, it must ...
Gap
Modane, Col du Télégraphe, du Galibier et du Lautaret avec Franck, un allemand à sacoches rencontré sur la route. Briançon, Col de l'Izoard, Embrun et le lac du Serre-Ponçon. Pause de deux jours à Gap voir les gars de l'atelier de Mobil'idées et la cousine de ...
Three Passes
Barcelonnette is nestled in the bottom of a valley and all routes out are up. There are several mountain passes in every direction but the forecast was not great and the only clear prediction was South East. Just as well that was the way I was going.
La Bonette is 2802m high and the highest point in this area. John Hermann (hereafter known as JH) recommends a circuitous route of about 200km which takes in 3 high passes. I set off about 10am and ...
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