Day 21 - Sunday 10th July - mileage 6039 - Dijon, France

After descending from the heights of the pass between Italy and France I set Tomtom to take me from Chambery to Amberieu-en-Bugey, but only got as far as Belley before the tiredness kicked in again and I stopped outside a McDonalds and slept again before getting coffee and finally getting to the bottom of why my recent posts had been failing. Needless to say (and Oss will already know this) the problem was with me and the options I had originally specified when I had set up blogpress. Still it's all a big learning curve, and I've still got plenty to go at.
The road from Belley to A-en -B passed through valleys overshadowed with huge mountains that at times were invisible and at others were just dotted with clouds.









Needless to say I got caught in a major downpour and was drenched through. as I was winding my way through the mountain roads in the pouring rain my mind went back to the off I had in Poland where the bike just went away from me on a corner.
No incidents, but I fairly tiptoed round some of the corners where there was lots of standing water on the road.
I didn't know it at the time, but in McDonalds I had been using my IPhone to access my email and when I had left I had just put it into the pocket of my jacket. Later in the day when I was in my hotel room I took the phone out to charge it and it was wet and behaving badly. There was a vibration all the time and this was running down the battery. I tried resetting and various things but basically at the moment the phone looks to be " buggered" a technical electronic term meaning switching it on and off has not fixed the problem. Well it's insured, but my experience of insurance is that you never seem to get what you expect.
Currently it's on the light getting warm and hopefully drying out and charging, but at present just dead. I had been so careful always putting things back in their proper places to avoid loosing them, and ensuring that the tank bag is never allowed to get wet, and here one simple mistake and "no phone".
The rain eventually cleared and the day improved and I steadily wound my way back north westerly.

I love the way all the sunflowers align themselves identically to catch the sun, also on the way saw this huge silver cockerel at the side of the road.





Got as far as Dijon and booked into one of those cheap F1 hotels. I am sure I will have no trouble sleeping tonight.

I have bought a cheap ferry from Calais for Tuesday 12th pm, and so all things being well will be back home late Wednesday.

Nearly home
TOR
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