Thursday 13 October 2011

Close encounters

Next stop Switzerland, or maybe. Decided to have a moving on day on faster roads although did stop to post some mail and investigate a beautiful private castle where they make Champagne. Decided to stop short of Switzerland in the beautiful Ballons des Vosges region. The map suggested beautiful forested hills as far as the eye could see and our surprise encounter with a deer on the road supported this, (well done Alex’s reflexes). We hoped to see this with our own eyes in the morning as the drizzle and mist only allowed about 10m visibility today, lovely campsite with a burbling brook though.

This is an enormous monument to remember the American soldiers that fought and died locally in WW1 that we came across. To give you some idea of scale, Alex is the dot between the most left hand columns.

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