Best Western Hotel Les Aiglons Chamonix

... control recently has broken down, this was the perfect sign to follow, where I planed to cross the border to Switzerland.<br><br>Just arrived in late afternoon to Aosta, I was not only already entered to the italian part of the alps but also to the point of good bye. Here I decided not to spend another night in Italy and crossed the border to my homecountry Switzerland a hour later at Calle del Gran San Bernardo. <br><br>BIENVENUE EN SUISSE - WELCOME TO SWITZERLAND

... 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.<br><br>That's all I've got for now friends, until next time.<br><br>Eddie<br>

... worn out.<br><br><br><br>Friday<br><br><br>< br>Friday turned out to be a<br>****** day and the clouds were hanging in the mountains just above<br>the city buildings, so therefore I knew that sightseeing would be<br>wasted effort. I got up lazily and went down to the reception to<br>read the International Herald Tribune and around noon headed downtown<br>to see what was happening. I did some shopping (it had to be dreary<br>out for me to do some shopping) and then was getting hungry ...

... up to<br>me and I was ready for the bed.<br><br><br><br>Wednesday 10-21<br><br><br><br>I got up to a cloudy day and<br>headed to the town center to go to the Tourist Information (TI)<br>office to pick up some maps for my travels in the area. The wind was<br>howling and the TI rep told me that all the lifts were closed due to<br>the winds, so no travels up the mountain today. I picked up the<br>maps, headed to the town center to pick up a sandwich and then<br>headed back to ...

From there we drove from Switzerland to Chamonix, France. For all you skiers out there, this would be a wicked ski vacation. It&#8217;s a true little French ski town and the mountains looks insanely steep. The food is melted cheese, potatoes and bacon. Yes, heart attack in a casserole dish. Yummy. We also had a fun encounter with the Chamonix Gendarmerie... Jon drove up a one way street by mistake. There was construction and it was ...

... up.<br>Kev was attempting to secure the network in order to update the blog - we decided that it would be better in the bar with a beer, there was a much better reception in the bar.<br>Upload successful, we decided to hit the town .<br>On the way to the first bar, Rich thought it would be a novel idea for the three of us to run three abreast past the digital speed indicator &amp; see if it would register our speed, it did, 22 kph!<br>Imagine ...

Bonjour a tous nos lecteurs!!! Notre sejour a Chamonix a ete tres agreable. Nous y sommes arrivees a Chamonix le 20 juin. Le transport s,est bien deroule, mais Chamonix est difficile d,acces, plusieurs transferts sont donc necessaires ce qui n,est pas toujours reposant. Par contre, les paysages etaient magnifiques, car les é derniers trains montaient et descendaient dans les alpes. Lors de notre arrivee a Chamonix, le paysage etait ...

The reason I went to France was to go skiing at chamonix/Mont Blanc, which i did and it was fantastic and i will be doing again very soon before i get tied up.. while i was there i did the world famous ski run Valley de blanche you ski over a glacier. which is amazing, the veiws you get on theis run are spectacular. definately take a camera.<br>to start this run however you take a gondola up to the summit of Aguille de medie (i'm unsure of the correct ...

... climbs are much more technical than crag climbs as that's where the fun is. Some people love it - lots of cool moves, lots of technical difficulty and a great way to show off. I'm not that fussed but it is good practice for the real thing. It was a good day and Scotty and Steve got a good chance to show off. Day 4: Lets get these bikes out! The Welsh guys all have Mountain bikes - Woollie is a bit of a fanatic and has a agro looking dual suspension jobbie, so ...

... journey to (fortunately) Chamonix. It was a short walk to the local TIC, but it seemed very long with our heavy backpacks. The woman that helped us when we got there was surprisingly friendly and eager to help and it was with lifted spirits that we made the even longer walk down the road to the hostel. We had cricks in our necks by the time we got here, staring around us in open wonder at ...