We are now officially “Off the Job”, all timed stages and navigational runs have finished. We needed to travel to Annecy yesterday which was approximately 140 miles away from where we were in Turin, not a big distance as we had all day to do it in therefore we thought we would take in a few more of the sights of Turin before our departure. We travelled to the church to see where the filming took place of the scene where the Minis come down the steps of the entrance to the church, and across the road the weir where the mini cars went through and the police Alfa got sunk. After numerous photos etc we travelled down the side of the river to pick up the autostrada to head north for Annecy. We arrived in Annecy at about 4.00pm so we took the opportunity to explore this lovely town.
Today, the 2nd November, we had a long journey ahead of us to Reims, which was 340 miles, this took most of the day, upon our arrival a tour of the house of MUM had been arranged for us, this is a champagne/wine company and the tour was quite interesting. We booked into our hotel and, after a drink at the bar, a number of us went in search of an evening meal. We found a brilliant Canadian restaurant and indulged ourselves in steak etc. Tomorrow (Saturday) we head for Calais to catch the ferry back to Dover for our final leg into Brighton for the grand finale!
Ian & Mike
