Hot and sunny, clouds in some places, thunderstorms later. We decided we have a day off from boating, take a picnic lunch with us and go to see some mountains. Drove east across the plain de Bresse through Villar and Chalamont into Ambrieu-en-Bugey, where we paused while Mike went in the post office. Further southeast through St Rambert and Belley to Yenne, where we did a slight detour through the hills of the Mont de l’Epine and down into Chambery.
Continuing southeast to Montmélian, then northwest to Pont Royal, where we crossed the river Isère to Aiguebelle, skirting the edges of the Massif de Vanoise, following the valley of the little river Arc as far as St Michel-de-Maurienne, where we took the mountain road south through les Aiguilles d’Arves over the Col du Télégraph to Valloire then crossed the Col du Galibier (out of the dept of Savoie into Hautes-Alpes) and the Col de Lauteret, following the valley of the Guisane to Briançon then up some more hairpins to Montgenèvre and into Italy, through lots of little tunnels into Susa. Northwest back into France through the Massif de Mont Cenis,
rejoining the valley of the Arc and completing the circle of the Massif de Vanoise via the Col d’Iseran and the hugely popular (even in summer) ski-resort of Val d’Isère and followed the Route des Grandes Alpes through Bourg-St-Maurice (we stopped to get diesel and Mike helped a Danish tourist translate the French instructions on the 24 hr pump into English) and Moutiers to Albertville. Southwest to Montmélian completing the circle and retraced our steps back to Jassans-Riotter (almost, we missed the same turning in Ambrieu that we missed on the outward journey) and got back just after midnight. Lightening was illuminating clouds to the north, the storm must have been travelling south as it passed us later in the night.
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