Some souvenir photos from an enjoyable camp of twenty-eight bikers from all over France, all of us members of the French club AMA; we were exploring from the Côte d'Azur to the Alpes Maritimes, the frontier range between Nice in France and Ventimiglia in Italy.
Pictures on my postcard show the palm trees on the promenade at Fréjus, the Col de Turini (1607m) a mountain route known and appreciated for its numerous corners, curves and hairpin bends, great for practicing lines and ballistics. And other halts at Puget-Théniers, Dolceacqua and somewhere high up in the Var just before we had the fun of encountering a group of bikers out from Marseille also out for the sport in the sunshine. See also my postcard of our base at St. Jeannetwhere the club had booked a gîte in a rustic style.

Parked underneath the orange trees in the garden at the Gîte des Baous, St Jeannet.

Moustiers Sainte-Marie is a pretty Provencal village at the foot of the grand canyon of the Verdon. There’s a spring and a waterfall which lead to fountains in the Roman style. A fine place for a biker halt in spring before the tourists and caravans are too numerous. Onwards round the lac de Sainte-Croix, much of the route is suitable for very sporty riding style; a good route to play on the racing line with apexes, low gears and later braking and get the eye back in practice after winter.

Screen grabs from practice day 2 of the 2013 Losail MotoGP. Marquez riding well today but Lorenzo and Rossi established their authority yesterday. Thanks to UK television for the coverage... unfortunately I'm not there!

The moment must be seized: it just has to be done. An interlude of dry roads and sunshine is rare this winter and spring: even more so than usual. So I wasn’t the only sports biker out at play at the end of this afternoon on the bends in the roads between Marseille, Aubagne, Cassis and La Ciotat.