Day 4 - Head for the Med..........and avoiding goats
As usual, on the road by 9am. Completely different weather to what we experienced the previous evening. Seems the sun wanted to play again.
Nowhere to get supplies or diesel, so straight back onto the Route Des Grande Alpes. Col de la Couillole (1678m alt.) is our first pass of the day. After yesterdays terrible weather, today is amazing weather, sunshine and blue skies.
The GF gets the car warm first before thrashing it up the pass, a couple of photos at the top, and down we go.
Blazing sunshine
After our descent, we headed over up Col St. Martin (1500m alt.) just before St-Martin-Vesubie. No rain or snow today, but dry roads and no other cars on the road to hold us up.
What a view!
Those "crash barriers" don't look much help.....
We decided on an early lunch at the summit of Col de Turini (1607m alt.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_de_Turini
Mmmmm, dry roads and no cars.
Coming down takes no time at all, but we do have to avoid rock falls and goats in the road.
Goats....always thinking they own the roads....
Not to mention the motorbikers who think it is acceptable to cut hairpins. We headed for Sospel, the last major town before Menton on rhe coast. After Sospel we drove the final mountain pass of the route, Col de Castillon.
What's this? A sneaky peek at the Med?
It then wasn't long before we weretaking in the sun [
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After the Med, we headed for our final hotel in Avignon. We hit the Med by 1pm, so were in no rush to get to the hotel. So we had time to take the coast road to Monaco, Frejus and St. Raphael.
Seemed to stumble onto the starting grid of the Monaco GP....
Final sight of the day, Agay.
Total miles for the day, 276 miles, (9 hours on the road including all stops)