French Roadtrip, with pics

[Pierscoe1]

just got back on saturday, from two weeks in france, including driving through the alps.... :D

here's some pics:
[pic]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/Pierscoe1/France%20Roadtrip%202005/France2k5_ReimsPits.jpg[/pic]
[pic]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/Pierscoe1/France%20Roadtrip%202005/France2k5_ReimsPits2.jpg[/pic]
[pic]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/Pierscoe1/France%20Roadtrip%202005/France2k5_Bonnette1.jpg[/pic]
[pic]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/Pierscoe1/France%20Roadtrip%202005/France2k5_Bonnette2.jpg[/pic]

well you should all recognise the first two.. ;)
and the second two are from 3/4 of the way up, and the top of, Col de la Bonnette... recommended to us by some pistonheaders a while ago. (Thankyou btw.. well worth the detour!!)

Some awesome driving was had... most notably, the D900 which runs from the bottom of Gap (at the RN85 Rte Napolean) east to the col de la bonnette, the road running north out of the top of Draguignan(sp?), the N75 from Castellane up to Grenaoble (great alternative to the over crowded Rte Napolean), and of course the Rte Napolean itself....

many thanks to all those that had suggested various bits of road.

Oh.. not sure if they're on here.. but a whole bunch of very noisy GB elises went past while we were stopped at the old Reims pits (although none of the miserable sods waved!;))

so.. if you're down in that part of france, get to those roads.. very much worth the effort!!

[K1 CERB]

Excuse me.....Someone seems to have stolen the Traffic!

Why don't we have roads that empty?

K1 CERB

[crazycraig]

Pierscoe1 said:

just got back on saturday, from two weeks in france, including driving through the alps.... here's some pics:

Got that beat.

Looks a bit to straight for me.

Just got back from France and Northern Italy on Sat as well. See pics below.

Stelvio looking East


Stelvio 9AM

[snorky]

ahhhh yes we were there last week....good to see they look to be painting up the grandstands at last and have a "suggestions box" for you to put ideas in.

[Pierscoe1]

snorky said:

ahhhh yes we were there last week....good to see they look to be painting up the grandstands at last and have a "suggestions box" for you to put ideas in.

the pits were quite weird... re-painted and very smart front, and freshly planted flowers in concrete walls round the back... quite odd.

[Ashok]

Great pics, thanks for sharing.

Pardon my ignorance but where are the first two taken?

[Pierscoe1]

Ashok said:

Pardon my ignorance but where are the first two taken?

Circuit de Geux(sp?)
Known as the old Reims pits... just outside Reims, funnily enough