We are back in France for the third time this trip! It was wonderful to drive up the foothills of the alps to the approach of the Mont Blanc tunnel and it was awesome to be driving the Alps during the winter.
Our first surprise was the price! We had researched it as about 65€, but the Italian cashier cheerfully told us that as we are over 3M tall, it was 165€. Bril. Not much we could do about it – it would have cost us ages to head back down and around.
That was not the only surprise – we left Italy on a very mild winter day and arrived in Francais 12km later to a very cold snowy day! The campsite is about 4km along the main route from Chamonix, so we got to the campsite and hunkered down.
Although we wanted to go into Chamonix proper, the visibility was low so we decided to give it a miss.
Next morning there was a blanket of fresh snow, probably only a couple of cm. Not surprising, the roads were all freshly salted/gritted, so even though it was minus 2, all the roads – even the tiny little road that the campsite is on were all fine. Time for a few photos and then hit the road – time for another country!
