We left Saturday and stopped en route at Northampton to pick up a tailgate bike rack from VW. Very pricey but looks really cool on Valerie, takes the 2 bikes and, as its designed to take 4, we can get the chairs and wheel chocks strapped on there to get them off the floorspace inside.
We then headed for Dover and stopped overnight at our usual campsite. Ferry crossing to Dunkerque at 8am Sunday morning and we were on the road in France by a little after 11am (+ 1hour). We decided to take a different route to Switzerland than our norm and booked Dunkerque so we could travel south via Belgium and Luxembourg. We overnighted at a campsite just outside Luxembourg on the top of a hill amongst woodland, where we enjoyed the evening sunshine and a lay in the following morning. The weather was beautiful when we left home and continued all the way to the Swiss border, where we had a little rain and threatening skies for the remainder of the journey.
We had cloud with some drizzly rain for the first day in Switzerland but we were unpacking and relaxing so didn't mind. We have been rewarded with wall to wall sunshine ever since, although during the first morning we had to wait for the cloud that started below us to make its way up the mountain but the scene was picture perfect first thing.
We went food shopping first thing in Sion and then came back up to enjoy the mountains in the sunshine. We went up to see the nice lady at Les Collons for a beer in the evening before returning to cook supper. In the last couple of days I have made 2 of the 3 curtains for Valerie, so we don't continue to risk exposing ourselves! Ours is the only camper I have seen with fully lined linen union curtains!! Bringing a sewing machine on holiday is a bit weird I know, but it's the only time I have any time to do anything!
Today (Thursday) we went walking at Thyon 2000. The snow was still quite deep in places so we stayed at the tree line and got some exercise. There was not a cloud in the sky, with the colbalt blue interrupted only by the occasional airline vapour trail.
Tomorrow is forecast as very sunny, so we are going to try the thermal baths at Les Bains De Saillon for a bit of R&R.
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