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Avoriaz Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Avoriaz, France
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glaciers & waterfalls
DAY 4 18/8/07We left mid morning and headed back home via Chamonix (we stopped to show the glacier to everyone. We spent a few days just chilling (apart from a long walk round Montriond) ...
Phase 2 : De routard à montagnard.
Sédentaire a nomade et maintenant encore sédentaire. Ici je pose mon sac, ici ce termine la première phase de mon voyage( qui était de voyager à travers plusieurs contrées et cultures). Mission accomplie!! Maintenant je me réfugie avec ...
Feb 02, 2010
A short warm up...
... was 'no frills' but was very clean and the food really tasty. It was only a three-minute walk to both the Morzine and Avoriaz lifts so couldn't have been more perfectly located. Going at the end of the season is always a bit of a gamble but we couldn't ...
Final Destination has landed
Arrived in Morzine after travelling through Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and France. A long journey but all settled and ready for our final week of sun and we are self catering so can safe a few bucks cooking our own ...
Skiing Morzine France
... resort town and part of the Port du Solei which includes about 8 different ski resorts all linked together and crosses over both France and Switzerland. We were joined by our good friends Hoani and Melissa who live down the road from us here in Libya and ...
Vive la France
... , where we’d rest up and take in some of the action from Stage 8 and 9 of the 2010 Tour de France. In order to get to Morzine-Avoriaz, we followed the 'Route Napoleon’ from Cannes to Grenoble. It was the route Napoleon took in 1815 when he ...
Another Place Another Party
... good holiday somewhere sunny. For those of you looking for some real information - good places to eat on the mountain in the Avoriaz area. Abricotine at the bottom of the very long run with the same name - has very nice house wine. Clarens in the ...
Goats
Visit town of Lindarets in Montriond France. Had interesting lunch at restaurant because could not have a picnic for the rain. We later had creppes and hot chocolate. Kids fed the goats and had a great ...
Avoriaz, France
We drove up and walked around this ski resort area.Built on a sheer granite cliff above the French resort of Morzine, Avoriaz still seems "space-aged" and unique 30 years on. Sitting on the border with Switzerland, at a high altitude, car-free and well ...
In the Begining
Anyway we've been away for just over a month now and time is really flying. We left on the 27th November and headed down to Morzine Well we arrived just in time too, as the night we landed the heavens opened and the snow didn't stop for 4 days. It was ...
Avoriaz, nieve....
wily, antonio y yo nos cogimos el coche y 1500 km despues llegamos a un lugar donde solo veiamos nieve, en ese momento sabiamos q habiamos ...
Tour de France day
Tour de France arrives in Morzine today. Town started setting up early am. Just by luck, our apartment sits on the road they race into town on!! Jon, Kris and E took the gondola, chair lift and hiked for 3 miles to set up stake on the mountainside near ...
How to fill in a day in Morzine
... 30 or so years on. Probably very different in winter though with all that snow and coloured lights around!! Once we had our fill of Avoriaz we motored on down the other side of the hill via an even worse road to the village of Les Lindarets - what a ...
Mountains around Morzine
... house to the starting point - Col de l'Encranaz. (Col being pass - remember that; it crops up a bit in this part of France!). We had driven up there previously and ooohed and aaahed at the steep mountain side with chairlifts going up, and imagining how I ...
Avoriaz...(Snowboarding)
Another week in my favorite part of France, with a board strapped to my feet and 3 foot of fresh underfoot. Lovely. Except for the gale force winds, the whiteouts and the sheer coldness of the Alps in ...
Made it to France
... the Alpes to Morzine. Made it through our first European roundabout and our Garmin came through to get us on the road to France and Morzine. Beautiful ski town near the French/Swiss border. Arrived early evening to thunder showers. As Erik I and walked ...
Vive le Tour
... 1996, I started paying closer attention - I became a devoted fan of his and the TDF in general. We arrived in Morzine-Avoriaz, France, on Friday, July 9th. The plan was to arrive a few days early and get acclimated to the area and our accommodations, ...
Mooching in Morzine
... we had a very interesting tour through some of the roads, villages and mountain passes which are regularly part of the Tour de France. Apparently the resorts bid to be included in the Tour itinerary (brings in a heap of money understandably) and this area ...
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