Day 6 - Wandering through the Jura Mountains

Friday 12 July 2019

We remembered to order croissants and baguettes from the camp shop last night so make a rudimentary breakfast with butter and jam. It will do for now, and we are back on the bikes nice and early. It is a cloudless sky with the promise of a very hot day to come.


One of many small cols in the Jura


Summit of Col de Berentin

We stop for coffee in a tiny village called Ruffieu and I get talking to a local who also has a K1200rs. You don’t see many about so it’s good to find a fellow enthusiast. His is from 2007 and has 90,000 kilometres logged. Mine has a few more than that but is five years older.

We arrive at Camping le Petit Nice in the hamlet of Saint Martin de la Chambre 3pm. It is blazing hot and there is nobody around. The site is around 500m above sea level in a valley with the usual torrent carving it’s way through.
Finally the owner turns up and we check in for the night. We need a shaded site so he shows us a small area in front of an unoccupied cabin. We are free to make use of its patio and table and chairs.


At Camping le Petit Nice in Saint Martin de la Chambre


All set up, cabin patio is ours to use

As the evening wears on the clouds are gathering at the tops of the surrounding mountains. It is still in the high 20s so a storm may not be far off.
We can hear the rumbling of distant thunder but no rain comes and by morning the clouds have gone away.


Thunder clouds gathering at Camping le Petit Nice

We have a simple salad for supper at the camp restaurant and are soon off to sleep as night falls.


The pool at Camping le Petit Nice
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