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Paris/Aosta "day trip" - advice?

RJVB

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Hello,

I'm not really sure what I'm looking for or hope to get in terms of suggestions or advice, so here goes "just in case" :

Some of my best friends who live in Aosta, Italy, get married this weekend, and I'm invited. I don't want to take more than 2 days off, so I'm looking at making at least the return trip in a single day; going, I could take off thursday night and spend the night in Beaune.
Paris/Aosta is about 670km, my actual destination is 30min from Aosta somewhere along a gorgeous mountain road that leads to Valgrisenche. I think I'll be following the route proposed by ViaMichelin; highway and more highway, the Montblanc tunnel to cross the border (would there be any fun in taking the Saint Bernard pass after 600km?!), and then the mountain road. Which I hope to find in better state of repair than it was this March (see the 2nd album link in yesterday's Ardennes Ascension topic). Supposing I leave on Friday morning, I'd try to take off at about 9h - I'm not exactly early-to-bed&rise, so that way I'd be rested, have a reasonably long day and hopefully avoid the worst of the traffic leaving the Paris region.
I'm now quite used to doing 500km trips in a day (Paris/Utrecht; the last one with "just" a dinner break at Anne's mother's place in Lille), so 200 additional kilometers shouldn't be too much of an issue ... if the weather co-operates (crossing my fingers there!) and if it weren't for that nice mountain road. Which has its first set of serious hairpins almost immediately after leaving the main artery.

That's about it ... thanks in advance I guess? :side:
 
I think you're right, going home via the A40 to Macon then the A6 to Paris looks the most direct. But my maps are old.

Peter
 
Oh, finding a route isn't the problem — ViaMichelin is a nice online service that suggests several options ("recommended", "scenery", "fastest", etc). And I have a GPS. But if anyone has suggestions which parts to avoid for instance, that could be useful.
 
Re: Paris/Aosta "day trip" - advice? PICCIES!

Some photos from my trip:

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A fuel stop outside of Bonneville. No salt flats in sight (not many flats either), but some nice clouds that made me decide to put on some rain gear. As a result, I arrived rather soaked, despite the absence of rain :(

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Arrived!

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The hotel was originally the lodging for the dam workers

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The tower of the Valgrisenche church, with its carillon

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Invite a Frenchy to a marriage in Italy, and he'll take his ... boules

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It took me a while, but in the end I decided not to cut that cable :side:

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View from on the dam

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higher up along that road there was still plenty of snow. Mid june.
 
Nice pics :) Some beautiful old buildings there.

The Norge looks great! For some reason I never liked the studio pics of it, but 'in setting' it looks much nicer :)
 
Maybe.

Perhaps its just that the fairing hides the engine, so somehow it made me think it was hiding the 'spirit' of the Guzzi, which is always the engine! As I say though, now I've seen it out on the road, it shows its character :)
 
Great pics and great that the trip went well.
What make is your top box and where did you get the tank cover??

And yeah - Norges are gorgeous.
 
The topbox is a Givi, a discontinued model; the tank cover is by a French company called Bagster. I think they operate under a different name in the US, I don't recall it right now. The make the cover in colour co-ordinated versions, but I've preferred to put on the black, to add some contrast and have a continuous black 'line' from saddle to inner fairing.
 
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