We finally drove up to Huez this morning, with the weather clearing.
Then we set off for Sisteron, setting several waypoints to give Camille no leeway in the route. I should have disabled tollways too. She took us off the D1075 onto the A51 in a roundabout at Pont de Claix. It cost us a couple of euros to get off again.
We reached Sisteron. Parking the car was a nightmare. We finally found a secluded sauf riverains (residents-only) area by accident. So secluded there was only one way in, along a couple of hundred metres of narrow lane. Two way, but only one car at a time. There were cars all around us parked on slopes, in cul de sacs, anywhere a car could fit. We had to watch one or two cars leaving to believe that it was the only way out as well as in. One resident, delayed while we manoeuvred our car into a very tight spot, expressed Gallic disapproval. After parking the car, we had a glace in a bar and thought about where we might stay tonight.
Although Sisteron is halfway between Huez and Antibes, there was no highly rated accommodation available there, so we booked at Chambrieres, an hour down the N85, past Digne le Bains. We walked up to the Citadel but decided not to pay to go in. Since we had to get to Chambrieres it was time to get moving.
Good hotel here at Chambrieres, but wiffee is so slow I have to give up for now. The noodo.fr website used to log in displayed in English! French law requires you to provide an email address. The site must have taken note of the .au in the obsolete address I provided. Cool.
We are definitely back in the South now. Drier country, warmer weather, terra cotta roofs. Lavender.
