On the Road Again!

Judging by the reports in the mainstream media it seems that since we have begun to roll out the vaccines against Covid-19 to about a sixth of the UK population (although that proportion is greater once you remove kids who won't get it) people have started booking holidays/vacations abroad and also in the UK! This seems madly premature, but if there are refund guarantees I suppose people want to feel there is an end to it. So for me/us. Where to go? All the planning I did last year for the trip to France/Italy and Switzerland is still there and loaded into the TomTom. It would just be a matter of checking what I wrote on the blog and re-book where I can. Instead with all the scenic railways I have been looking at on the TV programme "World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys" some of them look worth a visit and would be less of a major trek. Okay we have the choice of two cars and two  motorcycles,  but the latter though my favourite is ruled out as Claire won't go on ...

Out of the ashes of both  RT20 and SP20 it looks as though we might get a chance for a holiday in 2021. I have even been whiling away some hours over a hot laptop (so hot that it decides to power off) and looking at the Vercors again.  Ideally this is a bike trip but Devall Travel is no longer a bike touring blog! When?  Has to be summer as many of the passes are still shown as closed today (6th May 2020)  on Google maps. So this looks like August 2021!   The current plan, such as it is, is just the Vercors.  No plans on how the get there or back. The loop is based on a start/finish at Saint-Jean-en-Royans.