Residence Les Balcons Du Savoy Chamonix

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 ...

... 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.<br><br>That's all I've got for now friends, until next time.<br><br>Eddie<br>

... br>Normally in Europe I don't eat lunch as after a large breakfast at<br>the hotel, I am good until dinner. In France, unlike the most of the<br>rest of Europe, breakfast is not included in the room rate. My hotel<br>wanted 15 euros ($23) for a croissant, juice and coffee, so I have<br>given up breakfast for this trip. I was looking for some soup and<br>the one place I looked had french onion soup for 11 euros ($17) so<br>once again I passed. So I did something I almost never do, I<br ...

... at<br>over 15,000 feet. It is a very impressive sight from the town and<br>once I arrived in the town center, climbers and hikers were arriving<br>from up above as the day was ending. It was about 60 degrees and I<br>sat out and had a beer before heading back to the hotel to read up on<br>the restaurant recommendations. I ended up at a restaurant about a<br>block from the hotel and had a nice meal of pork, mushrooms and<br>fries. Back to the room as the first day jet lag was ...

... 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 ...

... s disappointment when the barmaid (Born in Basingstoke - living in Newbury before leaving for Chamonix) told him everybody does that and the fastest had been 24kph!<br>Gary was very happy to learn that there was a Heavy Metal band playing in Monkey's - so off into town we went for some traditional French Fayre - Chinese it was.<br>Then down to another bar (Monkey's - Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey Bar) for a swift one before finding the Metal ...

... plus enchanteurs, a faire rever les skieurs et les planchistes!!! Ca sentait le sapin (comme dans nos foret quebecoises, a la difference qu,on se trouvait dans les Alpes!!!) et la tranquilite. Notre gite se trouvait un peu en retrait de la ville et il n;y avait que des alpinistes qui y etaient heberges (ou preseque). On ne "fittait" pas trop dans le decor. On s,est même fait demande si on etait des marcheuses ou des serveuses ...

... took them with us to explore some of the trails. Mary and I headed into town in the Morning and hired our own. The hire shop bloke pointed us to some trails which went all the way up the valley and back down again. It was a little ambitious as it covered a total of 40km with 1000m in ascent (it had 1000m in descent as well but I didn't mind that bit). Little did we know that Chamonix doesn't have mountain biking trails as such, it has walking trails which can be ...

... enormous mountains and snow-dusted peaks which rise to overwhelming heights on all sides. First order of business, after paying for our beds and depositing our luggage, was a cup of tea and brunch (consisting of quiche followed by a sweet pastry). Afterward we simply spent a few hours, armed with the camera, wandering around the town, admiring (and photographing) the spectacular scenery. By mid ...