When we left this morning the temperature was just over 34 degrees and in just 3 hours it was 2.8 and I was brushing sleet out of my hair… for August the driving rain and ferocious wind is unusual even at this altitude even though this is the highest paved mountain road in the Alps. Lunch at Le Canyon in Val D’Isere was a good choice and we were joined by two Spanish riders on a Yamaha and a FS800 one of who had discovered her waterproofs were leaking – with today’s rain if they were going to leak then today would have been the day…

Managed to squeeze in about 460 miles in 24 hours and once again P&O surpass themselves by allowing us to board an early ferry. Sitting in Bar Le Duc planning dinner at La Pataterie. Superb roads, stopped at Chemin des Dames to view the ‘monument des chars d’assaut’. 50Km through fileds being combined – a hive of harvest activity.