Ciao Italia; Bonjour France!
Fred drove the 3 hour trip today, with the first 2/3rds on the autostrada. He did a great job, staying on the right all the time, managing to cleanly pass about 60 huge trucks and to keep up with the traffic (apart from two Maserati’s, a Ferrari and a Bentley). What an amazing feat of engineering and traffic movement this road is! Through such unforgiving rugged terrain two or three lanes in each direction just sweep along, through tunnels and over viaducts following the coastline of the Italian Riviera but staying well above the roads leading in and out of the thronging tourist meccas we were reaching.
At San Remo we decided we’d like some lunch and also to be down nearer the sea enjoying the views, so we left the autostrada and joined the Coastal route. San Remo had Fred gaping at the beach activity and the opulent super yachts. The sun came out and the Mediterranean began showing off her renowned azure blue but still with huge cumulus clouds tumbling about above.
By 3.30 we’d reached our next Hotel at Menton and so the afternoon has been very leisurely with a late afternoon walk along the promenade enjoying the expanse of beach and ocean, the huge stretch of hotels and apartments along the waterfront with backdrop of the gnarly Massif behind.
A big travel day through the Cote d’Azure and more tomorrow so a quiet night tonight.
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