Off to Euroland again

[nick crisp]

Col de la Bonette was good (assuming that's the one you mean?). The very top of the mountain road was closed when I went last month, but should be clear by now, as it didn't look like they had much more work to do:








I reckon they'd deliberately blocked it at this point, probably while they finished work at the top:





Didn't miss out on much height though:





So the Classic Bol d'Or is just incorporated into the same weekend? I had thought it was a separate event entirely.


If I was headed for one col in the French Alps, I'd go to the Col du Galibier, further north. Not quite as high as Bonette, but the views are even more spectacular:











Fair bit of zoom used in this shot: