Heading to the fjords - France 1/6

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TRAVEL DIARY Frrancia From Italy via the Great St. Bernardo)

Friday 30.07.93
Departure from Milan at 14 with the camper. Gran San Bernardo direction. The road that leads to G.S. Bernardo climbs much for your camper. The first end of the tunnel is a covered balcony. For the tunnel you pay the toll, and the Swiss customs, toll motorways (stamp to be applied to self). Long descent to Martigny. It 'the time of harvest of apricots not resist and buy 2 baskets of apricots with a farmer. Stop service in an area around an artificial lake for dinner. In the pause he felt the odor of burned, discovered the day after it was in the engine compartment of the camper: a cable regulator battery of ancillary services. After dinner we continued ever motorway through the vineyards of the hills surrounding Lake Geneva. Beautiful lights at sunset on the landscape of the lake. Stop on the motorway for the night in a parking lot. (377 Km)

Saturday 31.07.93
Departure at 8.30 am to France. Have the Alps the climate is very comfortable. Beautiful road in the mountains and forests of the Jura, is a continuous succession of climbs and descents as it traverses the Alpine Corrugated perpendicular to its lines of level. 11 visit to Besancon. We can not come into town with the camper: To limit the height to move the walls will not allow that, parked the camper on the river below the Citadel. Sightseeing Acquis of the material to adjust the fault of the camper. The road to pota Troyer is less interesting. Sightseeing, ample parking, but at 700 feet: beautiful old town houses and gardens with a trellis of'400 -'600. The historic center is called the cap because its plant is in the shape of a champagne cork and ruelle des Chats. Beautiful churches, but not exceptional. Resumed the road towards Reims, on a very large service area stop for dinner and overnight. (393 Km)

Sunday 01.08.93
Departure from at 8 am. At 9 we parked the camper Reims in many of the Cathedral. Visit the cathedral where we find an Italian coach. Then on the avenue purchase of bread and chocolates and champagne 3 bottles of 75ml of champagne. Reims is a city of Champagne! There are nuances with great bottles of perfume and taste really incredible. Obviously, there are several tasting and bottles for sale are from 75 ml, so you can buy different kinds. We leave the city with your mouth still taste fantastic chocolates (because bouchon-shaped stopper).
We follow the signs for Calais and have lunch on the border with Belgium. At 15 we are already visiting returned, Belgium. Center around the historic Grand Place and the Cathedral, visit the cathedral treasury of some of the rooms with precious pieces and paintings. Outside the historic city center and dusty little care, especially comparing it with the French tourist city. Stop at a campsite Ooidonk, near a beautiful green residential area. After dinner fattcciamo a walk to visit the castle-villa enclosed by forest and moat. Belgian sockets are not usable by us. (440 Km)

(The story continues with the nation Belgium)