Motorcycle Explorer December 2014 Issue 3 | Page 227

FRANCE
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t the French border we’re charged 25
euro’s for our passage, a small price to pay for
such a pretty journey. The driving immediately
improves as we cross the border, cars no longer
tailgate at 18 inches and 90 mph, like a high
speed freight train. Off at Cannes and through
a bewildering one-way maze, before it spits us
out on the way to Grasse. We haul up at our
destination of Pegomas in the ever increasing
midday heat, we’re early but nonetheless
welcome, so we change out of our sweaty
clothes and head into town for lunch. Following
our time honoured plan of looking for a busy
restaurant, on the basis that the locals know
something we don’t, we settle on a sleek
brassierie and seafood brochettes. 100 euro’s
later, we’re slightly stunned at the cost for 2
beers each and a fish kebab…but it WAS very
tasty. We head back to the digs for an
afternoon nap in the sun.
have the one then….back to town for a steak
frites supper and we wobble back to the Hotel.
Next day we’re luggage free, having settled
here for a few days, so after a light refreshing
breakfast it’s off in the increasing gloom to the
Gorge du Verdun. Thunder speckles the sky as
we wind, and I do mean wind, our way out of
town and thread towards the highway proper.
Reaching up and up as we twist left and right,
then seemingly endle