7th May 2012

Monday 7^th May

Such a peaceful night, not one noise. A quick tidy up, but we feel we should wait to pay when the reception opens between 8:30 and 9:30, however no one shows up so we hit the road. Again its quite cool so we aim for the Italian border. At around 5pm we leave the motorway at Cluses, just before the Mont Blanc Tunnel. We fill up with diesel at the local Carrefour and fail to come to any decision on where to spend the night. Barbara remembers an Aire in the book at Les Carroz D’Arches, so we head there. It’s a difficult steep windy road and we question our decision. When we hit Les Carroz we struggle to find the Aire despite getting directions from the Tourist Information. We go even higher above the town and as we turn into a big car park we see the 5 electric point and the water taps. Its basically the parking place for the ski lift across the road and I wonder if the campsite owner from Kent learned his towing skills here. There’s no one around, the electrics free Yippee! and what a view! After settling down we take our evening meal looking across to the snow capped mountains of the French alps. Although we are new to this motorhome Aires thing we couldn’t have picked two better locations for our first Aires. Whilst nodding off in the chair we finish off the first bottle of wine of the holidays. Maybe it’s the altitude thing but we’re fast asleep in bed by 9pm…..its stll light.