Are we there yet?

Yes goddammit we are.

I have had:

• NOT a Full English Breakfast in The Portland – but I did defy the sign forbidding the taking of food from the dining room;
• Italian Stallion fun deep in the Chunnel – an Italian brother-from-another-mother and his equally Italian girlfriend on a BMW r1400 (if I remember right) off for a two-day blast in Northern France;

• A brilliant run down to Troyes where my phone failed me and I was stranded for a couple of hours until finally getting into my first AirBnB experience – it involved two enormous calzones;
• An even better ride down to Chambery (just north of Grenoble) – I devised a route that took me a little way into the foothills of the Rhone-Alpes – very exciting.
• The most delightful arrival at my Chambery B&B (Booking.com this time) with a wonderful (possibly im-) mature couple – I’m their last guest before they close for one year and travel the (this) globe! A great evening in a gorgeous city

• AND I have now found an exciting looking 2,000m+ mountain pass (Col du Mont-Cenis) that will smuggle my budgie over the Italian border – where I have booked (Booking.com again – not sure I like the AirBnB experience so far) a B&B in Susa – about half way between Chambery and Turin.

I guess I have a lot to blogging catch up on and I will, dear gentle reader – tomorrows run will not be a 4+ hour blast on the motorway (beautiful though they are here – another blog deserved I think) so I hope to get there earlier in the day after a refreshing bit of mountain air.

Then I will chillax and blog-off.