The Walled City Of Cremieu

After a short lay in this morning and a cup of tea in bed we set off from our high altitude camping spot at le Col de Morte at 9am heading for Grenoble and Fort Bastille. This is where we could have camped last night but thank god we didn’t.
Heading off the main road up a tight road started us on a gradient of 19%, the road was an utter nightmare with 180° hairpin bends and at the very last bend the gradient got to over 20% and the bend was 190° which was just to much for Wanda and after trying the turn and wheelspinning a couple of times we admitted defeat and we had to make a precarious U turn so then it was back down the hairpin bends while we all held our breath. This was quite possibly the most scared I had been while driving.
From the we decided to go to another nearby Fort. Fort Eynard and I had 2 sets of co- ordinates but I knew it would be up high so I opted for the walking option after the last fiasco.
This also turned out to be a nightmare with an 870m climb on a 19% gradient our legs were burning and in the end at 1340ft we gave up and turned around without reaching the fort and that little escapade cost us 2 hours.
From Fort Eynard we headed towards Lyon stopping at Glendieu Falls which was amazing before arriving at our final destination of the day. The Medieval Walled City of Cremieu.
Cremieu town centre just isn’t made for motorhomes and after negotiating the tight little streets for about 20 minutes we eventually found a gravel Car Park to stop in, from there we spent 2 hours wandering the town, got some food and had some well needed beers before setting up camp in the car park and bedding down for the night.Read more