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On our Way to visit Sheena, Patrick and the gang near Lyon we spend the night at a truck stop, as the tourist information in Bourges can only recommend campsites 1 hour in away in the opposite direction of our destination. We have a wonderful meal of soup and a Calzone/ {half pizza half omelete} I picked up from a street vendor for 6 euro.
The parking bay was quite nice with vistas of N7 the main highway between Paris and Lyon, a little snack bar, about 40 trucks and 4 campervans. As we pulled in the ice was starting to form on the roads and the windscreen so we fired up the heater for a while and climbed into bed.
As a truck driver I am used to sleeping on the side of a highway such as the Hume with trucks flying by, but anyone who has slept in the town of Jugiong NSW before the the by pass was built will have some understanding of just how noisy this parking bay was.
The amount of trucks passing by this spot makes the Hume Highway seem like the Birdsville Track, now lets add the very fast train which we have now discovered is only
5 meters from our idyllic sleeping spot and seems to go past at 30 minute intervals.
Around 5 am the trains and trucks seem to disappear and the sleeping continues on with much greater benefit until 8 am so we travel on to Anse and partake in a bit of shopping as I need to obtain a mobile phone Sim card.
30 euro was the asking price for a sim card so I bought one with a phone attached for 35 euro with quite a bit of French/English difficulty I was quite pleased with the outcome.
Then we headed for McDonalds where I was able to get free Wi-Fi and post some emails and also post some blogs.
We arrive at Sheenas around 3pm to great amazement as I had not phoned for directions,(thanks Garmin).
Let me tell you after 15 years living in France she still has a strong Australian accent.
We enjoy several days there and the kids all got along well having lots of laughs over some of the language translations.
Sheena and Patrick entertained us with some wonderful French meals, wines, cheeses, walks and cultures, including frogs legs. We did some shopping and picked up a couple of cheap bikes for our journey.
A trip into Lyon on Sunday saw us travel to the Artisan markets and to the Catholic church at the top of the hill over looking Lyon.
Sheena and Patrick were great hosts and we really enjoyed the company them and there children.
Grenoble was the next large town we passed through and we kept on traveling and started climbing into the Alps south towards Sisteron spending the night surrounded by snow in a tiny village called Lus-La-Croix-Haute and braced ourselves as our host warned me that they were expecting – 10 degrees tonight,
Well if my fingers are not frost bitten in the morning I may be able to continue this page.
The parking bay was quite nice with vistas of N7 the main highway between Paris and Lyon, a little snack bar, about 40 trucks and 4 campervans. As we pulled in the ice was starting to form on the roads and the windscreen so we fired up the heater for a while and climbed into bed.
As a truck driver I am used to sleeping on the side of a highway such as the Hume with trucks flying by, but anyone who has slept in the town of Jugiong NSW before the the by pass was built will have some understanding of just how noisy this parking bay was.
The amount of trucks passing by this spot makes the Hume Highway seem like the Birdsville Track, now lets add the very fast train which we have now discovered is only
5 meters from our idyllic sleeping spot and seems to go past at 30 minute intervals.
Around 5 am the trains and trucks seem to disappear and the sleeping continues on with much greater benefit until 8 am so we travel on to Anse and partake in a bit of shopping as I need to obtain a mobile phone Sim card.
30 euro was the asking price for a sim card so I bought one with a phone attached for 35 euro with quite a bit of French/English difficulty I was quite pleased with the outcome.
Then we headed for McDonalds where I was able to get free Wi-Fi and post some emails and also post some blogs.
We arrive at Sheenas around 3pm to great amazement as I had not phoned for directions,(thanks Garmin).
Let me tell you after 15 years living in France she still has a strong Australian accent.
We enjoy several days there and the kids all got along well having lots of laughs over some of the language translations.
Sheena and Patrick entertained us with some wonderful French meals, wines, cheeses, walks and cultures, including frogs legs. We did some shopping and picked up a couple of cheap bikes for our journey.
A trip into Lyon on Sunday saw us travel to the Artisan markets and to the Catholic church at the top of the hill over looking Lyon.
Sheena and Patrick were great hosts and we really enjoyed the company them and there children.
Grenoble was the next large town we passed through and we kept on traveling and started climbing into the Alps south towards Sisteron spending the night surrounded by snow in a tiny village called Lus-La-Croix-Haute and braced ourselves as our host warned me that they were expecting – 10 degrees tonight,
Well if my fingers are not frost bitten in the morning I may be able to continue this page.
2 comments:
Thought I'd comment to let you know that there is an audience back here for your blog! It was air-conditioner weather here today - we are expecting mid 30s for the rest of the week, so a little different from what you are all experiencing.
Cointha, did you notice the dots on our class blog ClustrMap that show us where you logged on? Quite amazing!
Keep enjoying yourselves (although you can keep the frogs' legs - I think I'd rather a croissant!) :-)
Mrs C, HSPS
I can't believe I have just stumbled across your blog, Skippy! Good lord...so nice to see pics of you and your family and read a bit about your trip through Europe. Hope you're well and happy. Keep on truckin'!
Willie
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