Garden camping

En route to Les Gets, we managed to spot what looked at first to be a camp site (a couple of tents were visible from the road) and decided to try it. Turns out, it was not a camp site but a set of houses! The locals said we could pitch, and were kind enough to offer us water, and the use of thier bathroom. To repay thier kindness Chris suggested that Dan make them Welsh cakes.

In the morning, Dan cycled into Morzine to fetch the ingridients for Welsh cakes, but couldn't find the right sort of flour (there isn't anything which translates directly as "Self raising flour" "fluer leve' ", was what Dan was looking for, but couldn't find any, nor any baking powder so he came back with the closest thing.

Dan made Welsh cakes on the picnic bench of the French people, but unfortunatly with no self-raising and no baking powder they didn't really rise. Even so, they were reasonabe - particularly considering they were made (again) using only the equipment in the paniers. They even asked for the recipie - which Dan claimed was a Welsh state secret (but will send it to them via email at a later stage).

We headed back to Morzine one more time, for lunch, to stock-up on supplies and check out the Tour de France rest-day villiage set up in the town. After that, we set out for the Col de Columbier for the next day's stage.Read more