Ritz Hotel Chivasso

... he changed his story to say that we drove into him - all the while we were being harrased by an old Cheese eating busy body elderly Monkey for parking where she didnt want us to.
After exchanging details Gary wasted no time in ensuring we were in front of the Pasta eating Pig dog and heading out of Chamonix for Switzerland.
Just over the Swiss border Rich and Kev made some adjustments to the pooper (prized the front wing off the wheel) to stop the noise and smell ...

... rolled up in Annecy, Kev still at the helm. Annecy was what more like
what we were expecting - there were people! Spot of lunch listening to music to
watch the girls go by was in order.
Annecy, a quaint little backwater, set within the basin of the mountains, with a
pictureques lake, lovely bars and jammed to the rafters with tip top totty - France was
open for business and business was good.
Gary had ...

... AN INVITATION?!?!?!?! Where was this hard working ****er the previous four hours, I mean for christ sake. But since since I now couldn't close my eyes without seeing a group of stumbling athletes chase around a ball, I think I had my fill. Even though we still had a few hours before check in time, I went over the hostel anyway, because I had no energy left to move.

Now I have to spend a bit telling you about my hostel. Obviously biased, but this might be the ...

... days were spent relaxing with my friends from Ivrea, the time we spent together only solidified out friendship further. Manu and Andrea are truly very special guys, and very special friends. I made many friends in the town, and everybody was very pleasant and hospitable towards me, and it was genuine. Manus mother was almost like a mother to me for 3 days, his nonno made us Agnolotti and was a very pleasant guy. We swam in the lake ...

... is fantastic; I wish this was acceptable in America. Americans view food much in the same way they view everything else: one part of an endless series of steps to satisfy their insatiable cravings. They wolf down hastily prepared-over-salted fatty processed garbage while they drive massive wasteful cars paid for on a credit card they can’t pay off. The Italians seem to recognize the result of satisfaction as being more of a process; you don ...

... train to Bardonecchia and took a ski lift up, did a little hiking, and lay in the sun in the mountains. We stopped further on the rail line at Oulx and got some beer and food.

Joel went to Aosta, another mountain town for the day, so now we have two sets of pictures from three gorgeous towns.

We had a gigantic meal for our last night. I tried ...

... the next four days...and if we wanted to for the next six months. So a brilliant experience and those coming on the Retreat you have your own unique experience in June! Today in the snow! I am off to the Temples for meditation and then Falco speaks tonight and after that dinner with a nucleo (community) here in Damjl that focuses on education for all, especially for children. Ciao for now...Next blog will be on my experience with the Winter Solstice. Cosmic energy from D Ioho

... I went to two bars at night. I met Ricca's friends who were a bunch of college students. They tried to talk to me in English. They were singing and I recorded that. I had fun. We went to the Red Lion but it was boring. The place was quite characteristic. At 12ish we returned home. Ricca was a little sick. We went straight to bed.

... br>

We strolled and took some pictures with the palazzos. Those are good
photos of the three of us :) Then we went to a bar with many Asian
decorations. Lorenzo ordered some sweet white wine for us. It tasted
okay but it was extraordinarily expensive. Each little glass was 6 euros.
I paid for Lorenzo's since I promised at first. I ...

... it made much difference at all. So she was in 3rd. Then it was Groves, and Hughes. They did well, but were never medal contenders. So Canada couldn't overtake the Dutch(who then went CRAZZZZYY!!) and we got the bronze with Groves and Hughes in 8th and 9th I believe. Whoohoo!! I then left the Dutch to sing their songs, drink their beer, and hug each other and was off to the Medals Plaza. I had about 10 minutes before they stopped letting people in by the time I made ...