Hotel Alpina Chamonix

Destination 405<br><br>km197'555<br><br>Not entirely shure, if I spend my last day in a foreign country, I head towards north. A stopover at Novi Ligure provides me finally the opportunity to send a notification to all family and friends about my remaining itinerary before return back home. The date has been fixed to the 29.<br>The ride up to Vercelly in the low lands was not that exciting like the sighting of the mountain of Mont Blanc in the far. Since my ...

... a glimpse of a massive glacier on our way to the mountain and later got a great view from a peak further down the ridge. I saw a glacier this summer in Montana's Glacier Nat'l Park but I have to say that despite the parks breathtaking views, its glaciers were hardly impressive compared to Chamonix. This was a legit, man eating, climber scaling, cavernous abyss kind of glacier. We were able to take a gondola that ascended the peak parallel to the glacier some 12,000 feet. After nearly ...

... seen no TVs at the Sports Bistro, I<br>was intrigued when about 8:30 the barkeep unfurled a screen on a side<br>wall, not unlike in old school days, then turned on a projector and<br>turned on the French equivalent of ESPN and the bar watched an<br>Australian rules football match between two French rivals. Good<br>fun!!!<br><br><br><br>Back to the room, had some<br>left over Pringles and off to bed for the next part of the journey,<br>Annecy in the morning. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

... The LAN-DTW flight was late, but I had a 3 hour<br>layover in Detroit, so it did not affect me. I arrived in Detroit<br>and went to the Delta Sky Club (formerly the Northwest World Club..no<br>longer in existence due to the merger) and had a couple of beers<br>awaiting the flight to Amsterdam. The flight to Amsterdam was<br>uneventful, although as usual I did not get any sleep on the flight, <br>and we arrived in time at 5:55 am, giving me time for my 7:10 am<br>flight ...

... poorly marked. Half the streets in Europe are so narrow anyways; they all look like one ways. So this car pulls up behind up and blocks us in, sweet, it&#8217;s the cops. They tell us we went up a one way.... So we honestly tell them it was a mistake and we're trying to turn around. Then they ask us where we are coming from and how much have we had to drink? Here we go... We had 1 big bottle of beer each 2 hours ago, then split ...

... He had put his hat on that day (a French expression when it comes to the Mont Blanc to say it's in the clouds). The clouds even covered the Aiguille du Midi (3842 meter - 12605 feet). After a nice breakfast in a cafe in town (pains au chocolat for both of us, we did deserve them because of what was ahead of us that day) we got our skis and boots from a rental place. The owner had some discouraging comments " the White Valley today? Are you crazy? Have you ...

... nto the glac&#305;er. The &#305;cecaves were &#305;ncred&#305;ble, the &#305;ce was crystal clear and they had even carved some rooms w&#305;th &#305;ce furn&#305;ture. The caves were l&#305;t up by coloured l&#305;ght&#305;ng mak&#305;ng them look very lum&#305;nous. We then walked back up the steps, not a lot of fun, espec&#305;ally w&#305;th the th&#305;nner a&#305;r, at the top we had a qu&#305;ck look around a couple of mounta&#305;n museums before catch&#305;ng the ...

Saímos de Portugal no dia 7 de Fevereiro de 2006 e 1900km e 2 dias depois avistámos o Monte Branco - ou não, porque era de noite ;) As nossas costas começavam a acusar sinais de desgaste com os quilómetros e a segunda noite de sono carro... os objectivos mudaram, tudo o que pediamos era uma cama, de preferência na horizontal e um banho, um banho por favor ...

... We left Chamonix and started to the Alp d' Huez to see the famous pass that the Tour de France travels through. There were detours everywhere and time was getting away from us so we decided to turn and head to Kevin's cousin Anita's house in Lugano, Switzerland. We did pass through a city, I think it was Albertsville in France and there was a street called 19 May 1945...I believe that was the liberation of France. Our route took us through Torino, Italy where the winter ...

... of the last word) but it is pronounced meadie, then when u get to the top ur guide will find you and will take you on a 150 ish metre walk along a norrow part of the peak to a place where you will be able to put ur skis on and get on down the hill.<br>this run's length depends on how much snow they get. but it took my group about half the day.<br>I loved it. I stayed in a very confortable motel as well. everything was great.<br>Definately do it.<br>