Crest dates way back in history, at one point in time it was a walled city, the Keep, or La Tour de Crest is all that remains of the walls and castle after Louis XIII ordered to have it all demolished. The Tour was kept after it was argued that it could be used as a prison. La Tour has 900 years of history and was used as a prison for 300 years. It is really hard to get our Australian heads around numbers like that. It was used as a prison for longer than Austr...

As we left Switzerland the road had that familiar feel about it again, and as we crossed the border into France I said to Julie that we had most definitely been over the pass before and she believed me as we rode past Mont Blanc. This time we spotted glaciers that were breaking off, which we didn't notice last time. We were headed for a campground near a smaller city called Crest, again we just relied on the GPS to set our route. This time it did well, taking us...

Leaving Liechtenstein I first tried the GPS to get us to southern France, our next destination, but this time I didn't like the look of where it was taking us. So I looked at Maps on my phone and plotted a route through the southern parts of Switzerland, it looked windy and interesting, and it was, but as it worked out, we had taken this route before and we went over some familiar passes, Oberalppass (2046m) and Furkapass (2436m), both brilliant passes with fant...

We headed to Liechtenstein via Stelvio Pass, an amazing pass in Italy. Stelvio is something like the fifth highest paved pass in Europe at 2760m. Being a major tourist attraction, it gets very busy and as the road is not in very good condition with extremely tight corners in some places, it isn't a fun road to ride, in fact it can be quite a challenge. Last time we went up we were later in the day and there were many many bikes, cars and cyclists. This time it...

Heading into Italy we decided we would go to Liechtenstein via Stelvio Pass, a very well known pass we had traversed back in 2012. We knew we wouldn't get as far as Stelvio in one day but decided to just start looking for a campground as the day drew on. We haven't bought any maps for this trip, unlike last time and so haven't done any real planning at all and more or less just go with where the GPS takes us. This can be quite interesting at times, but then ot...