We started the day in usual fashion with fresh croissant and bread delivery (really getting used to this now) before heading South under the Alps to Torino, Italy. The Italians sure do love a good tunnel, starting with a 12km long trek under Mont-Blanc followed by a few hours worth of more tunnels which made driving through the terrain a piece of cake.
With three people on-board campsites were necessary so we found a little hideaway campsite on the outskirts of Torino. The campsite was conveniently located near a farm-to-cone ice cream shop, the 400m bike ride in 33 degree heat was enough to work up an appetite.
With our arrival in Torino landing in the middle of the Italian afternoon siesta, we resorted to our first lot of fast-food for the journey, McDonalds. This was followed up with multiple 1 Euro espresso’s and an abundance of fresh pasta over the following 48 hours, the McDonalds was long forgotten.
Exploring Torino was a quiet Sunday of walking the streets and trying the local cuisine (Torino is the home of Nutella and Forrera Rocher) followed by more fresh pasta and of course Italian wine.
We farewelled Italy (for now, we will be back) in lieu of heading West into France via the Frejus Tunnel. We enjoyed one last road-side espresso in Italy before we began the 13km tunnel journey back under the Alps, back to the land of daily crossiants. We quickly made our way to Lyon, the unofficial food capital of France, and checked in to Camping de Lyon for 2 nights. The sweltering heat provided us an opportunity to relax pool-side where 2 campers worked on their tan while the 3rd camper worked on his Aperol Spritz recipe. A splendid afternoon was had by all.
Second only to Berlin, Lyon has the most impressive mural scene in Europe, at first look it was hard to tell what was real and what was painted on.
Our next stop is Bordeaux where we then start our journey along the Spanish and Portuguese coastline. I need to start working on this tan in a big way.
C xx
Damien + Caitlin 