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First Day!
Today was my first real day in Grenoble. After a much needed 10 hours of sleep I took an even more needed shower as my hair still reeked from cigarettes from the bar on New Year's Eve. I met up with the rest of the kids in my program and my professor Victor, and we checked into the new hotel, Hotel De l'Europe, located in the heart of downtown. …
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
... near the water. They said that was not a problem with them and it meant that they didn’t have to take a complicated and expensive train ride and we got to head south for a bit where it was warmer! So we got out the maps, checked out the route and headed off to get as close to the Italian border as we could. It turns out that the perfect spot to camp was back in St. Michel de Maurienne where we had been just over a week before to do the Telegraph/Col du Galibier ...
Escargots & Grenouilles
... to camp quickly and relayed the good news. Rod didn’t blink an eye before deciding he wanted to check out the restaurant. I had already bought treats and they probably wouldn’t be very good tomorrow so we decided we should have it as an appetizer. They went down pretty easily and although I’m a chocolate fan, I have to say that the citron tart was tastier. We then walked into town along the river and checked out the menu. It looked good ...
Alpe d'Huez
... the town of Alpe d’Huez which is actually a fairly big ski resort. There was a fair bit of construction work going on in the town and around some of the lifts. We came out the other side of town on a narrow road that wound its way past an airport. It had the shortest landing strip that I’ve ever seen…I would not want to be landing up there with such a short runway and strong winds. I was told that the rest of the loop was going to be mostly downhill and ...
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