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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

Thursday



Thursday was a beautiful day
and I decided to head up into the mountains to check a few famous ski
resorts. I got in the car and worked my way down the valley on my
way to the ski resort of Megeve, according to the GPS, about an hour
drive away. I took the highway to the bottom of the valley and
found the road to Megeve. The map showed a thick yellow line meaning
a good road, I thought. I found a narrow two lane road in the trees,
winding ...

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I picked up the rental car
at the airport and much to my surprise, I was given a compact
Mercedes Benz, a very cool car for a very inexpensive price for the 7
days I will be driving. I stepped out of the garage to warm up my
GPS that I have come to depend on in Europe and it took about 5
minutes for it to catch the satellites. I plugged in Chamonix as my
destination and out I went. I had to travel through Geneva for about
25 minutes ...

I decided to change hostels because I really didn't like this one. I am not fond of the international hostels. They're like hospitals, although the buffet breakfast was nice and I liked their cat. I was woken up by screaming, unruly kids. Some parents aren't parents. I was happy to change. The sun had also come out and so I snuck on the train from Montreux Tilletet to Veyvey which is only 5 minutes away. The place is much nicer and has free food and a kitchen. I actually got an entire 6 ...

... 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 ...

... TV in the centre of the square along with activities for the kids. The EuroCup was on and it seemed like most of the community was out watching the game. Sometime during the evening after the game was over we were awakened by gunfire. People were driving up and down the streets honking their horns and firing guns into the air - I guess they were happy with the outcome of the futbol game.

... off this mass of calories ingested, Tania and I decided to take a little hike suggested by our Chalet owner. A little, hour-and-a-half hike up the North face of the mountain suited for families, took a Gilligan-esque turn and led to a several kilometre jaunt up a mountain, complete with all four seasons joining in... Blistered feet, aching legs and shortness of breath finally got us to a cable car that could get us back to civilization ...

The reason I went to France was to go skiing at chamonix/Mont Blanc, which i did and it was fantastic and i will be doing again very soon before i get tied up.. while i was there i did the world famous ski run Valley de blanche you ski over a glacier. which is amazing, the veiws you get on theis run are spectacular. definately take a camera.
to start this run however you take a gondola up to the summit of Aguille de medie (i'm unsure of the correct ...

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