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Grenoble: Small city in the mountains -
22 Nov:
The gateway to the Alps... not much else to say...
23 Nov:
Actually, when I wrote that I thought it was true - the train ride here was less than spectacular and upon entering the city and moving from the station to the hotel it seemed to offer very little in the way of culture or interest.
...but after exploring the area a ...
Choranche Caves
... synchronized with the water dripping from the ceiling. When they turned on all the lights at the end, you could see that the pool in the centre was really deep. We then headed back down to admire the longest soda straw stalactites and head out. Afterwards we wandered over to see a nearby waterfall and underwater lake. Both were really neat, but we didn’t explore for too long.
Shortly after this we had been planning on splitting up with Dad & Tan ...
Escargots & Grenouilles
... lunches and salads for the next few days. Rod also suggested we pick up a sharpening stone for our knives so we got one of those, too. On the way out of the market, we happened on a stand selling savoury pastries. Rod had a chicken curry pastry, while Megs and I settled on a pastry with pesto, sundried tomatoes and fresh basil on top. As soon as we bit into the first bite, we were hooked. The pastry just melted away and the pesto and tomato combination ...
Alpe d'Huez
... we were climbing one of the biggest (read: most popular) cols in the Tour – Alpe d'Huez. Of course, the climb was just the beginning and were going down a lesser known road on the other side to make a loop back to the campsite. Magge had done this loop once before which was reassuring to some degree. The climb was 13.5 km long with 1065 m of elevation gain and an average grade of around 8%.
It was nearly 11am by the time we headed out as we were waiting ...
Croix de Fer
... to town in search of a "menu" to enjoy, but all the places seemed to sell pizza and not much else. So we chose a pizzeria and hid out from the rain under the awning. Along the way, Anoop spotted a strange dispenser machine that seemed to sell “fresh” pizza – we were curious about how the pizza would come out, but we didn’t get around to trying it out…
The next day we woke up to 5⁰ C and pouring down rain. Since ...
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