Broken open the Beaujolais? Let us list the reasons you should go camping in the Rhône-Alpes region while you sip. Whatever landscape you like to lie against/get active in, a Rhône-Alpes campsite will have it within reach: as well as its vineyards, the area has six lakes, including the French side of gorgeous Lake Geneva, rivers flowing all over including the Rhône after which the region is named, the mountains of the Alps (after which the region is also named) and Mount Blanc, Rhône-Alpes’s highest peak, perched on the France-Italy border. Snow sports? It’d be flaky not to.
France’s second most prosperous city and the country’s food capital, lovely lovely Lyon is here too: in between downing saucisson de Lyon at the bouchons, take time out to wander around the old sites of this UNESCO World Heritage Site city with 2000 years’ worth of history waiting. And as well as Beaujolais, the Rhône-Alpes also boozily produces Côtes du Rhône wine, Savoy wine and Chartreuse liqueur, a duty-free’s worth of which should be clanking gleefully in your car or caravan on the way home from the Rhône-Alpes wine routes.
