We skipped breakfast at La Treille Muscate. Douze was a bit expensive. They charged us anyway. I expected the bill to be eye watering, didn’t dare look at it until evening, wrote to them and they refunded the amount a day later. Continue reading “Day 34, Wednesday, Baumes les Messieurs”
Day 33, Tuesday, Cliousclat
Sorry, both wifi and mobile here at Cliousclat are so bad, I couldn’t add anything tonight.
Wifi seems to be somewhat better this morning. As I write, the Cruas nuclear power station dominating my view of the Rhone Valley is venting clouds of water vapour from its cooling towers.
We left Florac (eschewing the 11 euro hotel breakfast) and set Camille for the village of Cliousclat in the Rhone Valley, with waypoints at Mende, Langogne, Aubenas and Privas to give her as little leeway as possible in choosing a route. At the end of the day in Cliousclat I found the navigation settings. She was already at fastest, which is a problem since I wanted to change her from shortest to fastest to prevent the absurd shortcuts she’s always taking down minor roads. I settled for compromise. I hope it works like optimised does in a Garmin.
Day 32, Monday, Florac
Yet another hotel with lousy wifi. There’s no excuse for wifi that’s much slower than the mobile phone network. I’ve taken to mostly using my phone as a hotspot for the ipad and ignoring the hotel wifi. Continue reading “Day 32, Monday, Florac”
Day 31, Sunday, Millau
No breakfast at the hotel, although it has a dining room. The restaurants were setting up, but none was open, even for coffee. It was eerily quiet on a Sunday morning. We intended to head for Millau today, but since we were down to about 145km of fuel, decided to go to Albi first, and fill up. We checked out of the hotel. The wiffee password was RAYMOND7. I had tried Raymond7, close. Continue reading “Day 31, Sunday, Millau”