Hotel Mont Vallon Meribel

... 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

... us in Feldkirch, and had a chat about the repair and things which had happened to them on the following day. It turned out they'd had a bit of a dashboard fire, but that's par for the course for Kieran, so nothing to be concerned about.

Now we had to pitch the pop up tent Kieran had lent us. That was easy, as you'd expect, but it was smaller than the one we'd had first, and so the clothes box didn't fit in ...

... de Seigne (2 516 m), en temps ordinaire un panorama à vous couper le souffle, situé à la frontière entre la France et l'Italie, cet endroit d'une beauté absolue marque la ligne de partage des eaux entre la Méditerranée et l'Adriatique.

Nous sommes maintenant dans le val Vény, a partir de là, le chemin n'est plus que pierriers, uniquement balisé par des cairns, nous bouffons de la caillasse pendant plus d ...

J 3/ Gîte de Nant-Borrant - col des Fours - Les Chapieux

Mardi 1 Septembre, départ a 7 heures dans le matin frais, pour une montée progressive au célèbre col du Bonhomme (2 329 m) qui annonce un superbe passage au sud du massif. Une marche de 5 heures pour un dénivelé de 1 200 m. On a beau admirer au passage les chalets endormis, et la sympathique faune locale, c'est là que les atteignants s ...

... répartition dans les dortoirs (j'ai repéré les ronfleurs cette fois ci), douche et diner vont s'enchainer dans une atmosphère joyeuse pour certains, mais lourde pour d'autres, qui ne savent pas dans quel état seront leurs jambes au départ de la 3eme journée...

Citation du jour:
Une des rares caractéristiques des visages fatigués, c'est que les sourires y restent imprimés une demi-seconde de trop.

... workout tips. I don't want to have to go to a gym or buy equipment. I also am not looking to get ripped. I just don't want to be a pudgy little fudge man who wheezes and sweats anytime the ground is inclined. Especially since I live in the mountains. After awhile I found and interesting workout on a blog. It was a Charles Atlas routine from 1936. It was made up of push ups, deep knee bends, and some other things. I thought ...

... is a soft cheese similar to... Mascarpone. Mascarpone is also Italian. According to cheese.com, "[Mascarpone] is not cheese at all, but rather the result of a culture being added to the cream skimmed off the milk, used in the production of Parmesan" This cream is called crème fraîche. Crème fraîche is a soured cream (but not as sour as sour cream). Add some tartaric acid to crème fraîche, remove the whey and you have mascarpone (though I'm positive ...

... place on my derriere on hard ice about four times that there was a bruise and pain for a few months. The narrow seats of my Saab reminded me of Meribel often. Towards the end of our lesson, she wanted to take the kids through La Foret, and asked me if I was brave. Sure, I'm one of the bravest females you're ever going to meet. Valerie said, if you go to fast, you can snowplow to control the speed and off she went in the lead. This thing ...

... ever so slightly. On our final mount before returning back to the hotel the rope pull stops before reaching the top. I am three down from the top and Sebastien is one behind me. We sit there for ten minutes... I am freaking out, because I understand (from experience) that the disk and pole will not support my weight and I am on the incline of a ski slope... three from the top... this is a long way from the bottom and I wasn't ready to attempt skiing ...

So the life of the guide continues. There is a little place amongst the ruins of the old town called Dick's Tea Bar. A place that we here at SnowlineVIP like to call home. For those of you who are wise to the days of the week, well then you'll realize that Tuesdays are Patchwork days. A band of four men who look imaginatively like the four gentlemen with the weird haircuts. If I was to translate for you that would mean Patchwork = Tha Beatles. As you can ...