We had another brilliant idea of riding one of the remaining sections of ViaRhôna that we have not visited before. We took an early morning train to Annecy and then spent over 20 kilometers to get out of the town and its vicinity. There were supposed to be two bike routes to the Rhône valley, but there was no signage leaving the town, so we got lost a lot. Only later we found the signage; luckily we were on the right road. We also ended up riding a lot on busy roads, and long up and down hills. Even most of the ViaRhôna from Seyssel and Chanaz travelled on roads, and was hilly.

From ViaRhôna we had planned to take bike route V63 to Chambéry — the route we rode to another direction in August — and then the train home. By the time we had almost finished the ViaRhôna section we were determined that was enough riding (about 66km) and decided to take the train earlier at Culoz. However, there were no trains for the next two hours, so we went on to Vions, but the same thing there. Then we tried to find the port from where there was a boat connection to Aix-les-Bains. At that point we had ridden more than 80 kilometers. We did not find the port nor the boat so we had to ride all the way to Aix-les-Bain, where we conveniently arrived just 10 minutes before the next train to Grenoble departed.

We ended up riding 106.6km (with the connections to and from the railway station) in 7 hours 5minutes, with 1321 meters of ascent and 1527 meters of descent. We had a perfect weather; it was quite cool in Annecy in the morning, maybe +9C, but the afternoon was again very warm with no considerable breeze.

I have to admit this was not very relaxed ride because of traffic and hills. Well, and the bad pavement conditions and lack of shoulders at places. That’s why there are not too many pictures, even if the landscape  was quite scenic — there was no way of stopping and going when there was a constant flow of vehicles just a meter away, and no proper shoulders.