No urgency to rise early today as we have just a 95 mile drive to our next overnight stop, Lyon.
Our daily mileage to date has been:
To our 1st stop, Bien Assise, Calais, from home, 220 miles.
To Epernay, our 2nd stop, 182 miles,
to Beaune, 3rd stop, 212, and finally to our stop here in Lyon, 95 miles.
With 170 miles to do on Monday, taking us to Salon de Provence, we will be a little short of 900 miles from home.
To give you the full itinerary, we have 13 nights at Salon de Provence after which we drive to Macon, some 170 miles where we stop for two nights, then 240 miles to Paris where we shall stay for 5 nights. 175 miles back to Bien Assise for our final night in France then 220 miles back home on Monday, 15th July, coincidentally, our 52nd wedding anniversary. Whew!!
Back to today. With the usual couple of comfort breaks, we arrived at the camp site just outside Lyon at 2.15pm.
The day had started damp, a little light rain, and just 17 degrees but gradually improved as the day wore on and as we progressed further south. On our arrival the temperature has risen to 26 degrees with clear blue skies.
An odd site that has seen better days but we quickly set up on what was a service pitch, where we're able to connect to the mains water and to a drainage point, plus electric of course.
By 6pm, all available pitches around us were full and we were metaphorically slapping ourselves on the back for getting here early.
In and out, sun, shade, a short walk, back in the sun. This was our afternoon. A light salad later then, too tired even to read, we watched The End of the Affair on DVD. Bed then beckoned.
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| Reception at Camping de Lyon |
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