Nevai Verbier

... la belle étoile en hiver, haha!!

hmmmmmmm....

Je sais pas maintenant quelles forment prendront mes récits à présent que si peu de changements s'opéreront, ni à quel fréquence je les écrirai, ni s'il y aura tant de rimes, haha!! ça m'est venu comme ça! Bon ben à coup de 6,30 euros de l'heure, je crois que je vais vous laisser parce que ici, l'Internet est cher en batinse!!

Chow ma gang de vous autres! Amusez vous!

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 ...

... 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 ...

... places that were dead I decided to
head to the Sports Bistro and have a beer and see how my appetite
was. The bar was like the local Cheers bar as many groups of friends
were hanging out. One thing I have noticed in Chamonix, there are
many dogs, and perhaps more Golden Retrievers than I have seen in one
location in Europe. It is also not unusual to see the dogs with
their owners in bars and restaurants and the Sports Bistro was no
exception. When I entered ...

French Alps 2009






I will start by bringing
everyone up to date as to what my travels have been since the summer
trip to France and the Isle of Guernsey. Charlie and I traveled to
the island of Majorca off the coast of Spain in the middle of
September. I did not blog as internet access was limited and when I
travel with Charlie, there is little time to take a break and put my
thoughts on the netbook. We had a wonderful time in ...

... poorly marked. Half the streets in Europe are so narrow anyways; they all look like one ways. So this car pulls up behind up and blocks us in, sweet, it’s the cops. They tell us we went up a one way.... So we honestly tell them it was a mistake and we're trying to turn around. Then they ask us where we are coming from and how much have we had to drink? Here we go... We had 1 big bottle of beer each 2 hours ago, then split ...

... from the course accommodation to our own, and have managed to find somewhere decent for an ok price - i.e. we could get a nice appartment in Covent Garden for the same amount! I've done my first bit of teaching, which I found wasn't as nerve wracking as I expected... You'll find a bunch of pictures with comments attached. Also, when you're next in Verbier and need ski lessons, let me know!

... Thomas and Said as we drove the two or so hours to Verbier. It's cool. There was no snow in Geneva. Some snow on the distant Jura mountains, but as we drove along the Lake, deeper into the Alps, Trudi and I took turns shrieking with excitement. Altitude's a cool thing. You could see where the temperature hit zero, because that's where the snowline started halfway up the mountains ...

... 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