17th April 2011

I seem to have forgotten an admission that happened yesterday, I left Giens and had all my experiences. And while on route to Digne I happen to take a certain D71 now if your vehicle is over 12 t you can’t use it and if your vehicle is over 8mtr long you can’t either so off I go and I am in the back of beyond of France and the scenery is beautiful winding roads that are 25mtr wide bridges the same ,then there is the Gorges de Verdon ,this is where it gets interesting cos the rock over hang is 3.65mtr high and Frits is 3.75mtr high so yes I get stuck , the drop off was nothing short of 45 metre can’t go that way . Lucky for me the only car I saw on that 70km stretch was behind me and after much forward and back letting tyres down I eventually got through my wheel was up against the Armco barriers on the 45 metre side no joke it was no fun and took quite a few whisky’s to calm the nerves when I got to the camp site.

As for today well since I left the coast I have been climbing, I have been into Italy and through the longest most expensive tunnel (Tunnel du Frejus) 48 Euro that blew my hair back…okay so the tunnel was very long but still 500 bucks what are they on. I am making my way to the St Bernard’s pass which is in Switzerland I just hope that its open , there is still enough snow on the ground and mountains for skiing so I will have to find out but that still away to go .