Chalet Beguin
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Chalet Time - Deeep clean!
... air and investigate our surroundings. Found the ski lifts and the shops & bars. Cracked on with more cleaning when we got back. Had dinner round Greg & Emilys with the nannies, 18 in total. After we went for a couple of beers at Bar la Roz with Dave, Louise, , Ant, Meg, Alex & Elaine. Sunday 9 - Finished what we could be bothered to clean in the kitchen although there's not much point because the white walls look like they've been used as ...
Training Week
Monday 3 - Had to be at Perdrix 2 for breakfast from 8am then to the training hall for 9 for our first day of training. Met up with Pete & Michelle at the break to say Hi. On our lunch break we had to go back to Perdrix to start prepping for our meal, which was a bit of a nightmare as not all the ingredients we needed were there and finding our way around the kitchen was hard work. In the end though we managed to marinade the Pork, and got ...
Let The Adventure Begin!!
... with the only double bed & ensuite bathroom to ourselves, not sure how we got that really! Our chalet is called Papillon and Ant is staying just a 2 minute walk away in Perdrix with his roomy, Charles. We only had time for a quick shower and change before we walked down to the restaurant through the Narnia Trail (15 minute walk through giant snowy trees - just beautiful) for a free much needed 2 course lunch. After lunch ...
The not so perfect storm
... in a thin layer of sand. Combined with the rain and warmth it proved very hard to remove. Now I know why the houses up here are just left the colour of crepi or render!
It really did blow and whistle and we had a few trees down and some had tiles taken off. We escaped with a brown stain in one of the bathrooms, where the tiles had been lifted by the wind and the rain had got in underneath. We called Scott, our American roofer to take a look and there appears to ...
Taking a hike around Mont Blanc
... an area of about 645 square kilometres and is about 40 kilometres long. The main peak is in France but a secondary summit lies in Italy at 4748m high, and is known as Mont Blanc de Courmayeur.
The first person known to have walked around the high passes route that became the Tour of Mont Blanc (TMB) was Professor Benedict de Saussure in 1767, who was so intent on finding a route to the summit that he posted a reward for the first person to climb the ...