Hotel Vanessa Verbier

Destination 405

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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.
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 ...

... 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.

That's all I've got for now friends, until next time.

Eddie

... worn out.



Friday


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

... quite enough to reach my goal.
The other inspiration was watching the Tour de France this summer as
one of the many legs was through the French Alps that I had visited
before and watching the race in HD TV, I thought of driving through
the areas that were so beautifully portrayed on TV this summer. I
had visited Chamonix twice in my travels and decided to hang out
there as a base and drive around the mountains before the snow season
begins .



Chamonix, Rhône-Alpes, France nedk

... half bottle of wine at dinner, so realistically, we barely drank anything. I told them we had 1 glass of wine each at dinner ( to make things simple), but they still made Jon blow into this gimmicky balloon and it showed that Jon was over the 0.025 limit. That kind of freaked us out, because we had no idea that the limit was a lot more strict in France. So they say that Jon needs to go back to the station with them to do a real ...

... to spend the next 3 weeks training all day, 6 days a weeks. Then over the Christamas/New Year holidays we will spend 2 weeks shadowing ski instructors and their ski school groups as observers. Then we'll train for another 3 weeks before taking our final assessment BASI 2. Those that pass BASI 2 will hopefully be offered jobs by ES ski school.

... We finally managed to stop and Sarah suggested that we keep sliding down on our bums as it created more friction then the tobaggons. So we spent the next half an hour sliding down the Swiss Alps on our bums!!! It was crazy, fun and unforgettable! Of course l it created a m*********** in my ski pants and was covered in snow and wet through...but it was the most fun l have had in so long!!! The next day l will never forget the bruise on my behind, my very swollen ...

... 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.
this run's length depends on how much snow they get. but it took my group about half the day.
I loved it. I stayed in a very confortable motel as well. everything was great.
Definately do it.

www.elodie50a.com

Here is a video (sorry for the very bad quality)
http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=R5_9hODsqgs

Ian met us at the station. We went to a cafe for coffee, even though we were starving ... but Monika was getting ready for work. Finally, to their flat for a delicious breakfast of yogurt, croissants, jam, and chocolate. I napped while Paul and Ian went for a walk and beer. After, we went to Monika's parents ...