we are off

[leadfarmer]

I’ve got a picture taken in that very spot in the Calanques de Piana on the way up the west crest

Good trip report, enjoy your holls

 

[leedude03]

How are you liking Corsica ? It looks superb and is on my list of 'must visit' (Hoped for later this year)

I like the place a lot, but as always never enough time to see it all, the things i like about the place are the mountains and the the roads that take you through them, although sometimes very rough are almost devoid of any traffic, and this leads me to the thing i dislike about Corsica the most, it is the standard of driving, any car or bike you do eventually meet on one of the many cols will be on your side of the road and will be going way to fast (imho) for the type of road.
There is a massive variety of things to see and do all within a good days ride, lets face it the island is small i think about 230km and 4hrs top to bottom on big roads. but as i said before you really can not go anywhere quickly when in the mountains its slow going.

 

[Doc]

Looked a good trip.

 

[Wapping]

Excellent, Lee, thank you and ‘big lass’ (I think I have that right, forgive me if not) for telling us all about it.

When I went to Corsica, it lashed down, whilst the rest of France bathed in hot sun. Do they still shoot holes in lots of the road signs?

 

[Micky]

A picture tells a thousand words .... keep 'em coming

Enjoy

 

[leedude03]

Excellent, Lee, thank you and ‘big lass’ (I think I have that right, forgive me if not) for telling us all about it.

When I went to Corsica, it lashed down, whilst the rest of France bathed in hot sun. Do they still shoot holes in lots of the road signs?

Yes Richard they still shoot the signs, and the big gal has no problem with you calling her so, as you say you have earned it. to hot for me here its been mid 30s every day.

 

[leedude03]

It seems as i have neglected to finish this trip report also, must have been enjoying the trip so much i forgot to continue posting as the trip progressed. Lets see if i can get this done while i have a little time to spare.

So below you will see a few more pics of around Corsica, I must say we both enjoyed our stay there even though it was a little to hot for me, even the big gal had to take her jumper off on more than one occasion, but if you get a chance to go then i would highly recommend it.

 

[leedude03]

So time to leave Corsica where to next, we were hoping to go to Greece but at this time of year and with a quick look at the forecast i decided it would be way to hot for me, the temps were in the low 40s there, so we booked the ferry from Bastia to Savona thinking we would make a decision when we landed in Italy.

Pics below of waiting for ferry and waiting for lunch

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[Wapping]

Thank you, Lee.

If it’s not too much, might I ask that you include any GPX files, please. They might be useful to someone looking to recreate your excellent holiday.

 

[leedude03]

The question was where to go next, now the big gal fancied a bit of swiss and me i fancied Slovenia a coin was tossed and the big gal won, so a route from Savona to swiss was needed, now as we had a lot of time in hand i did not really want to go straight north and into swiss, so had a think and thought about it some more and decided to head to over the Maddalena and Vars and stop somewhere south of Briancon, now i hear some of you saying i would have gone north and maybe gone through Aosta and over the St Bernard, but there was a couple of places we (meaning the big gal) wanted to visit.

We had a 4.5 hour ride and we had docked early afternoon in Savona so we would be looking at a tea time arrival somewhere near Briancon, not many pics taken on the journey just a couple atop of the Maddalena when stopped for something to eat, and going over Vars

 

[leedude03]

so we found a hotel for 3 nights just south of Briancon, this would give us enough time to see what we wanted to before moving on to swiss, so today we would be going to somewhere the big gal had been wanting to visit for a good while but something always managed to curtail it, the place in question being Saint-Veran we would be traveling there via the col D'izoard and doing a run up the Agnello before returning to visit Saint-Veran , it is the most elevated commune in France and is the third highest village in Europe, well what a stunning place full very old timber houses with views to die for and a must is to go into one of the little restaurants get yourself a drink of hot chocolate a bit like a block of cadbury dairy milk in a mug MMMMMMM if you like that sort of thing.

Go and visit if you are in the area well worth an hour or two of your time, pics below.

 

[leedude03]

A good day was had yesterday more of the same today, we would be visiting Guilestre and Embrum and throwing in a loop around Lac de Serre-Ponçon.

 

[leedude03]

Moving on today heading for swiss we encounter rain and a road blcked, the road being the Col du Galibiere so we head off in the direction of Huez on the D109 and once past Huez hang a right on the d526 that leads you up to the Col du Glandon and across to the col de le Madeleine, we then head through Albertville on to Flumet and up the Col des Aravis, rain was getting worse so we decided to stop at the top of Aravis to see if there was a room available at LES RHODOS (Col des Aravis) hotel opposite the chappel. they did, so food was had and breakfast ordered for the morning and we settled down for the night. Pics taken at top of Glandon and in the hotel.

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[leedude03]

Moving on and into Switzerland in the Rain our destination is Lauterbrunnen and hopefully some dry weather and a nice campsite.
Rain stayed with us until we were around a half hour away from Lauterbrunnen we managed to set up camp and then more rain came down.
pics below on the way past lake Geneva and at camp.

 

[leedude03]

As the song goes for all those old enough to remember, what a difference a day makes, we awoke to glorious weather, in fact it was so good and so clear we decided that we could not miss the opportunity to take the cable car up to the Schilthorn- Piz Gloria, as it was early we chose to walk the three quarter mile down to the cable car station and jump aboard one of the gondola's to the top. one word to describe the whole experience awesome.

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[leedude03]

So after spending a good couple of hours at the top we started our trip down stopping at the three stops to have a wander around the mountain villages one of which we had lunch at. A few pics of the journey down, last pic is an aerial view of the camp site from the gondola

 

[Redboots]

So after spending a good couple of hours at the top we started our trip down stopping at the three stops to have a wander around the mountain villages one of which we had lunch at.
A few pics of the journey down, last pic is an aerial view of the camp site from the gondolaView attachment 306072View attachment 306073View attachment 306074View attachment 306075View attachment 306076View attachment 306077View attachment 306078

Teriffic!

 

[Wapping]

Thanks again, Lee. Just enough words to explain the pictures.

PS I have edited a couple of the posts. Just to make the layout a little neater

 

[Deise]

thanks for sharing

 

[Santa-2512]

Is that Santa in your tent ?

Oi , keep me out of this! I only do home visits in December, so deffo not me