Tuesday 11 October - Brenda has a hissy fit

A little sad today to be leaving Cavaliere but the weather has definitely turned the corner into autumn and rain is forecast for most of the week, not that we don't like autumn and we don't mind a little rain but this was planned as a sunshine trip.

Brenda, iPad and Window Phone nav systems all say go East towards St Tropez rather than west along the coast towards Toulon and Marseilles, which seems the shortest route but who am I to argue, so its East. Brenda then picks up traffic information and re-routes us away from the main road, ok if it saves time, she then re-routes again and then again and suddenly we are on a narrow road then onto a single track lane. Luckily we didn't meet anything that couldn't move over to let us through but Brenda's dynamic routing is quickly turned off however we still have a 15 kill o mile route up and down mountains, zagging and zigging around tight bends before hitting the troll road. Not a good start to a 330 kom leg.

Anyway, we reached the stopover site north of Lyon about 6pm:
Campsite VivaCamp La Grappe Fleurie

Which is in the centre of the Beaujolais region



A very warm welcome from the receptionist who tells me that the local wine shop will happily provide 4 or 5 wine tasters if we would like. The site also has 2 wine tasting nights in season.

Anyway, excellent fully serviced pitch with free good wifi for E17. Chatting to our neighbour, he recommends the next site for tomorrow.

(just checked Via Michelin and that gives a shorter route via