Auberge De Costaroche Albertville

... the week but on Saturday we leave for St Anton - apparently it's an 8 hour drive so up at 6AM.... when we get there we get to go to our permanent accommodation - we're living with the other couple and apparently our appartment has en suite bathrooms and a washing machine so sounds pretty good to us!

attached a couple of pics showing the view from our window when we arrived and the view now...

speak to you all soon!

Gemma and Dave

... in the mountains so I started out in Annecy, where it was overcast
and gloomy. I headed east toward the end of the lake and then
decided to head to Alberville, about 20 miles away. As I was driving
past the end of the lake and through a valley the sky brightened and
soon not a cloud and the mountains in the distance were beautiful. I
got to Albertville, where the 1992 Winter Olympics where hosted,
drove around and then headed back to Annecy. I wanted ...

... pictures and updating my blog. The grading system here is tough compared to what I'm used to but I will adjust. The company I am consulting for is interested in expanding to the U.S. and has us conducting market research for key demographics. Its a nice change of pace from school work, there's little structure and its almost entirely self regulating. Its a welcomed increase of freedom as well as responsibility.

That's all I've got for now friends, until next time.

Eddie

... fin avril, 1400£ par mois+l'overtime et les jours férrié que je travail, et un méchant bon travail a marquer dans mon C.V), je vais emprunter de l'argent a Desjardins(j'ai pu assez d'argent)(5000$) que je rembourserai sur 2 ans a coup de 130 $ par deux semaine(c'est tres raisonnable(des voyages de même on en fait pas tout les ans)). Pis je pars pour la Suède/norvège/Finlande/pays Baltes. Profité d'un mois de voyages avant 4 mois et demi dans les alpes a travailler. Yah!! sa ...

... places that were dead I decided to
head to the Sports Bistro and have a beer and see how my appetite
was. The bar was like the local Cheers bar as many groups of friends
were hanging out. One thing I have noticed in Chamonix, there are
many dogs, and perhaps more Golden Retrievers than I have seen in one
location in Europe. It is also not unusual to see the dogs with
their owners in bars and restaurants and the Sports Bistro was no
exception. When I entered ...

... 10 years. Great
to see he and Robin and their 2 boys. The next day on to Las Vegas
with 32 people, the tour was marred with a few problems and the group
was not as enjoyable as the one I just left. Upon returning from
Vegas, I had just 3 days to host a couple of buddies for the MSU
homecoming game and then on to Europe.



Monday 10-19



I left the house on Monday
morning for a noon flight to Detroit, Amsterdam and then on to
Geneva ...

We sadly left Chamonix and vowed to return there in the winter, and drove to Annecy. Annecy was kind of a repeat of Prague, beautiful old city, on the water, with canals... we were kind of sick of that scene by then. They are applying to have the 2018 Olympics there, with the ski events at Mont Blanc. It would be a nice venue for sure.

... half bottle of wine at dinner, so realistically, we barely drank anything. I told them we had 1 glass of wine each at dinner ( to make things simple), but they still made Jon blow into this gimmicky balloon and it showed that Jon was over the 0.025 limit. That kind of freaked us out, because we had no idea that the limit was a lot more strict in France. So they say that Jon needs to go back to the station with them to do a real ...

... and the grey country beneath the clouds.  My pocket camera was happy. Premature judgement today would have prevented me from seing something so mesmerizingly beautiful.  Nevertheless, everything has an end . I did not want the day to end but when the moment came when I took off my skis, first thought was..." the best day of 2009 " I couldn't stop smiling.I also knew what happened today will not stay, for nature has its unique way.   I ran back to my room, and eagerly wrote down the ...

NOTE: the 'pisted' slopes are colour-coded: Jen: 'greens' - pretty easy; 'blues' - pretty difficult; 'red' - very impressive (the one I did :-) ; and 'blacks' - cliff-edge, to be avoided 'off-piste' - how the hell did I get here?! Sandy: 'greens' - road with snow on, lots of walking, to be avoided 'blues' - quite flat, generally covered with bodies of beginners, to be avoided 'reds' - fun 'blacks' - more fun 'off ...