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'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: