Le Tour

It is with a little trepidation that we are about to embark on the final stage of our trip, the c.800 mile cycle back from Lake Como to the UK.

Our provisional route will initially take us south to the outskirts of Milan, before heading west to the Valle d'Aosta, over the Grand St Bernard's pass into Switzerland, along the south shore of Lake Geneva, down the Rhone to Burgundy, over the Burgundy and Morvern hills, down the Loire past Sancerre, and then via Chartres to Le Havre, to catch the ferry back to Portsmouth.

You can see most of the detailed route here (the software keeps crashing so we've not yet been able to save a complete version), or an overview of the whole route here:

[For those of you wondering, that gargantuan peak at c.200miles is Grand St Bernard's pass, and yes we do need to get over it with all our kit if we are going to make it back...oh and we heard it was blizzarding up there the other day...]