Another triumph for Charlie's nav skills. After a great stop over in Switzerland's very own Shangri-la, he took us via a lovely back route over the [insert any unused superlative here] Sustenpass, down to Interlaken and on to my brother in law's near Geneva, where we arrived in time to help out for a couple of days with some house moving, packing and general back-to-earth stuff.
But, in an inspired choice of location, Tik's new place at St Cergues, is situated at the top of yet another wonderful biker's road, on the route that runs from Nyon, near Geneva, towards Paris, via a series of 48 wonderful hairpin bends that attract serious bikers from far and wide. And, if you continue up the hill for a couple of kilometres, you get to a ski resort! I always knew Tik was clever but he's surpassed himself here!
Charlie and I have spent a couple of days doing our own domestic chores while helping Tik with his. In between cooking some excellent meals for us, Charlie seems to have found time to pop off down the hill in order to turn round and come up it again,à la GODOY (or should that be 'au'?)
It's been a pleasure to watch some of the fantastically skilful bikers who can take corners at much faster speeds/angle of dangle than I could every dare. Mind you: most are all of 18 or 19 and even Charlie lets them past when he spots them zooming up in his rear view mirror. The accepted way of acknowledging this is for the passing biker to briefly wave one of their feet (presumably because the hands are otherwise fully occupied)!
Tomorrow (Monday) we hope to head off towards...well, you'll just have to wait and see! Unfortunately we have to wait for the post to arrive just in case my passport catches us up. Oh - didn't I mention that? Can't imagine why.
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