Day 13 Tues 9/5/17
We woke to sunshine! Yah!
We set off from Dijon at 9.30am with the top down, it was 10C. During the day it got as low as 7.5C and as high as 13C but we stuck with the open top principle, although Kay did put a blanket over her legs at one point and switch on the heated seat. We happened across a Royal Salt works, a real architectural gem in a little village in the middle of nowhere. A good time for a stop and explore.
We woke to sunshine! Yah!
We set off from Dijon at 9.30am with the top down, it was 10C. During the day it got as low as 7.5C and as high as 13C but we stuck with the open top principle, although Kay did put a blanket over her legs at one point and switch on the heated seat. We happened across a Royal Salt works, a real architectural gem in a little village in the middle of nowhere. A good time for a stop and explore.
Motorway avoidance was the order of the day again and we drove through some fascinating countryside. Today the fields, farms and villages seemed more ordered and prosperous than we had seen during the drive south from Reims whilst the contrast between the French and German speaking parts of Switzerland was marked with the latter being typical chocolate box with hardly a hay stalk out of place.
As we crossed into Switzerland we reached a maximum height of 930m and it did feel a bit colder but we rapidly descended once we were through the border, which was strangely unmanned. Lunch was taken at the shores of the lake at Neuchatel where we had some entertainment courtesy of the Swiss airforce performing dive bombing practise runs on the far side of the lake.
As we crossed into Switzerland we reached a maximum height of 930m and it did feel a bit colder but we rapidly descended once we were through the border, which was strangely unmanned. Lunch was taken at the shores of the lake at Neuchatel where we had some entertainment courtesy of the Swiss airforce performing dive bombing practise runs on the far side of the lake.
Neuchâtel where we had lunch by the lake
Thunsee - so beautiful we had to stop
The weather got increasingly better as we got nearer to Interlaken and we were in full sunshine by the time we reached the Waldhotel where we will stay for a couple of nights. A rapid checkin and then we walked down the hill to the town, grabbed a couple of beers in the sun and then walked on to the Interlaken hotel for a typical Swiss fondue.
The Jungfrau - 13641 feet (the Eiger is next door but not visible from here)
On the way home the view from the town up to the Jungfrau was almost more impressive in the moonlight than it had been in the sun earlier.
A refreshing walk back up the hill to our hotel and we rounded out another great day.
Dijon to Interlaken 187 miles. Total 1507 miles
A refreshing walk back up the hill to our hotel and we rounded out another great day.
Dijon to Interlaken 187 miles. Total 1507 miles
