M Vacances le Geneve Saint-Gervais-d Auvergne

... then back to the room to catch up and ready for dinner.<br><br>Dinner was in a nice bistro, with a<br>nice meal, nothing special and then I headed back to the room for the<br>night, awaiting my last day in France.<br><br>Monday October 26<br><br>The weather forecast was for a nice<br>sunny day in the mid 60's and I was not disappointed. I got up and<br>headed down to the lake. I knew that the big tourist boats for a one<br>hour tour of the lake went out only at 3 ...

Destination 405<br><br>km197'555<br><br>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.<br>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 ...

... out from lack of oxygen I was able to gather myself and enjoy some really amazing views along with a packed lunch. After the mountain trek we went into the small ski town and enjoyed some of our "favorite brewage and enjoyed the surroundings" (per request of prof. Delmar).<br><br>Heading to Rome and Barcelona next week, another post should follow shortly after.<br><br>We're approaching the final week of this "bi-mester." The work load is getting steadily heavier and I combat it by ...

... attendant d'avoir mon rendez-vous.<br><br>Y s'est tellement passé de chose en 5-6 semaines, j'ai tellement oublié de vous raconté des trucs, c'est dommages, mais au moins sa fera des ptites choses d'extra a raconté a mon retour, comme sa vous saurez pas toute exactement ce qui c'est passé, héhé!!<br><br>Asteur!<br><br>Bon. Maintenant, c ki spasse? Si j'ai la job, apres avoir sauté de joie partout dans les airs(parce que sa veut dire du travail dans les alpes de mi-décembre ...

... way up the mountain with many 180 degree switchbacks that<br>were very narrow, I am glad I did not approach traffic coming the<br>other way in these turns. There also was not a guard rail to be<br>found and as I reached higher altitude, I became a little nervous<br>looking over the edge to the valley over 1,500 feet below. I reached<br>Megeve and decided that I had had enough nail biting driving for the<br>day, so I turned around and worked my way back down. I then headed<br>back to ...

... The inspiration for this<br>trip was twofold. I have been a Northwest Airlines Platinum Elite<br>for the past 7 or 8 years. This means that I fly over 75,000 miles<br>during the calendar year, which affords me many perks when flying,<br>including upgrades to first class on domestic flights, double miles,<br>boarding first and other things that become enjoyable when flying a<br>lot. I needed about 13,000 miles to get to Platinum this year and<br>this will get me close, although ...

We sadly left Chamonix and vowed to return there in the winter, and drove to Annecy. Annecy was kind of a repeat of Prague, beautiful old city, on the water, with canals... we were kind of sick of that scene by then. They are applying to have the 2018 Olympics there, with the ski events at Mont Blanc. It would be a nice venue for sure.

From there we drove from Switzerland to Chamonix, France. For all you skiers out there, this would be a wicked ski vacation. It&#8217;s a true little French ski town and the mountains looks insanely steep. The food is melted cheese, potatoes and bacon. Yes, heart attack in a casserole dish. Yummy. We also had a fun encounter with the Chamonix Gendarmerie... Jon drove up a one way street by mistake. There was construction and it was ...

... for climbing that sort of incline. The legs were strong, but the back began to bite. On the other side of Romme, the ground dropped away to a village at the base of Colombiere, and in the distance you could see the u-shaped Col between the peaks. After another average coffee, and a decent break, we rolled off the hill, zipped into the ville below, and began the 7% - 9% climb up to the col. Halfway along I began to feel a bit empty in the tank, so sucked down ...

... upward, into deeper and deeper snow, until we decided it was time for a milchkaffee on the patio of the restaurant down the hill. The sun was hot and bright as we sighed over the beauty of the Alps. There was a dairy farm up ON the skihill. Don't they have developers here in Switzerland?? It is now snowing, a heavy wet snow and we're organizing ourselves to return home. The van is staying here in Interlaken, so, darn it, we'll have ...