Saturday, 31 August 2002, Col de la Colombière

~Route des Grandes Alpes~

yes, the Route des Grandes Alpes really is grandes, leading from grandes valleys to grandes viewpoints to grandes mountains, a long and winding road that curves the countryside of Rhone-Alpes gracefully in hundreds of turns.

if roads were music, this one would be a symphony of whistling wind and humming trees, of birdwings and churchbells, of snowcovered horizons and flowerframed doorways. even the names of the villages and mountains along the route sound like a song: Notre Dame de Bellecombe, Col des Saisies, Saint Jean de Sixt or Col de al Colombière. and there is more of that route waiting…

~grandes smiles~
D.

( if you want to follow my trip on a map: I am in Megève now, which is somewhere between the MontBlanc and Annecy, will stay here another day to do some cycling tomorrow)

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