Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Our great Alpine road trip - Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

After some relaxing days in Roquebrune we drove (yellow) to Provence to discover its famous lavender fields. We took Route Napoléon to Digne-les-bains were we spent the night. After Grasse we had an ongoing, heavy thunderstorm until the evening. 


- Route Napoleón is the route taken by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815 - 

- Our overnight stay along Route Napoléon. Relais de Chablet was driven by a cute, burly french lady that served a lovley breakfast, best croissants ever - 

- Route map over the lavender fields -

- The scent of lavender was amazing -

- Some sunflower fields - 

- Further route planing - 

- Leaving the fields for route des grand alpes -