2013 Holiday
So we went from London down to Chaumont for the first night meeting up with our friends on a Super Tenere at the services just past St Omer.
Nothing much to report there, went on to Grenoble the next day, lovely place recommended, stunning scenery, it's a big ski resort in the winter.
We took the classic bike road the Route Napoleon out of Grenoble and followed it for a bit before turning off for Aix en Provence. Now there's a nice place. We spent a few days there and had an amazing ride out around the Gorges du Verdon, kept bumping into some very friendly Germans on BeeEmms and a Yam - Are you following us!!
We also saw a white Griso and Stelvio in Aix, local Guzzi dealer?
Our friends headed back to Blighty and we went down further toward Spain stopping for a few days at Gruissan near Narbonne, Had a few ride outs to Narbonne, very nice and Beziers, not so nice (vou can always tell by the working girls in the stopping areas as you approach town),
There is a wind that gets up down that way and it made the ride away from Gruissan to Poitiers a bit of a pain for the first hour or so. Kept the speed down but not much fun. We also rode along the edge of the Pyrannes and caught an hour or two of serious rain.
On to Poitiers, again very nice for a stop over and on to Deauville for the last night, very pretty but a bit flash for my liking, all designer shops and such.
Anyway all in all about 2000 easy miles, bike performed well as usual but is definitely due for its service, feels a bit flat, also the right side exhaust tappets always loosen off first and are now making a racket (let's not think about soft valve seats). The only expensive bit is that the front discs that I knew were a bit warped have now got beyond and must be replaced.
Finally if the bloke we waved to like idiots on the Tours Perifique on a very tidy California reads the site hello!
. Temporary repairs were effected but I'll try to get it welded soon. After coffee and sticky buns we headed across the Birker Fell road to Broughton in Furness then hit the coast road towards Kendal, then the A6 to Carnforth and then the M6 for a few miles. Agreat day out, we didn't see any other Guzzis, in fact not that many other bikes either.
