Maeva - Résidence Belle Plagne La Plagne

... 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

... a glimpse of a massive glacier on our way to the mountain and later got a great view from a peak further down the ridge. I saw a glacier this summer in Montana's Glacier Nat'l Park but I have to say that despite the parks breathtaking views, its glaciers were hardly impressive compared to Chamonix. This was a legit, man eating, climber scaling, cavernous abyss kind of glacier. We were able to take a gondola that ascended the peak parallel to the glacier some 12,000 feet. After nearly ...

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 ...

... Geneva. I had forgotten that I had to go through
immigration and security and of course the gate to Geneva was the
furthest that could be at Schipol Airport. I arrived at the gate
with about 5 minutes to go before boarding. Luckily the flight was
about half full and we arrived in Geneva at 8:35 am on time. I found
my way to the EuropeCar desk, as I was renting a car for the second
time in my European Continent career to travel the French Alps.



Chamonix, Rhône-Alpes, France nedk

... channels on the radio. The car has a digital radio and the station doesnt have a fixed frequency, it just flicks itself over the best channel that it can be recieved in the car (but not physically changing, only the number changes without you knowing!).
Dan has a new favourite drink over here.. Schwip Schwapp..its an orange coke mix..the next fav is Mezzo Mix, which is a different brand of orange coke mix..the Schwip Schwapp is a pepsi product that you can get from Aldi..and its ...

From there we drove from Switzerland to Chamonix, France. For all you skiers out there, this would be a wicked ski vacation. It’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 ...

... from 1250 to 2360 meters in the morning, and then walked all the way back down to Chamonix. Wonderful views, but we were shattered in the evening, so we treated ourselves to a fondue savoyarde, mmmhhh!!

The next day was slightly shorter, but we still walked for 5 hours. We even did a bit of 'trail running' when we realised we were half way up the mountain and had a train to catch to get back to Geneva!!

... to our carriage loses her train ticket. But all good and we head off ensuring we claim seats surrounding a table allowing us all to partake in card games, and a bit of drinking along the way. Well, all of us with a bit of an exception to myself who really doesn't travel too well when feeling a bit motion sick (this did eventually take it's toll on me!!) Everyone managed to play cards well into the evening, and we were awoken early in the morning with ...

... Titan Airways, which is a small charter company that does UK to France runs specifically for ski package companies over winter. My theory is that the big, regular airlines get priority for flight slots, because we sat on the tarmac for the full hour before taking off. The flight was okay, but when we arrived in Chambery the tiny airport was in chaos, given that the majority of flights were to London airports, to which flights were cancelled. Thanking our ...

... 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.