Monday 29th October 2018

This morning it was raining so heavily in Chur that we abandoned our plans to visit the Old Town which is reputed to be very scenic. Instead we set off south!

While raining heavily there was also a lot of snow about. Soon after leaving Chur we stopped to take on diesel.

We were headed for the city of St Moritz.

We passed through some pretty bleak looking villages which would probably have looked charming if the sun was out.

As we headed up towards the Julierpass the rain got heavier and heavier.Vehicles coming in the opposite direction were plastered in snow.

As we approached the Julierpass (2284 metres, 7940 feet) the rain turned to snow and it began  to settle on the road. Shortly after this photo was taken we encountered two stuck lorries one of which was backing down the hill towards us! We just about managed to turn around in the road and retreat downhill to the village of Bivio.

We didn't stay in Bivio long as the weather was seriously deteriorating. Instead we retraced our route even further to the town of Savognin. Here we bought some groceries and some snow chains. (Regular followers of this blog, (if there are any), will recall that we broke our last set of snow chains when we got stuck up a mountain road in Corsica last winter.) We are staying the night here. This is the "view" from our van. 

Today we travelled 59 miles (95 kilometres)   We are at N46.59508 E9.59563

Savognin      Street view