Granges d'en haut - Ski chalets Les Houches

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Route de la Cote des Chavants Les Houches, Haute-Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France, 74310

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Phase 2 : De routard à montagnard.

... sonores. Les longs moments coupés de la réalités enfouis dans ma tête, dans mon monde à simplement réfléchir de tous et de rien. De me comprendre, me saisir, me définir, me concrétiser; me rappeler, qui je suis. De déconner avec tout ceux que j'ai croisé, qu'ils soient québecois(au vendanges surtout, haha!) ou d'un quelconque autre pays, parlant une quelconque autre langue.

Tant de souvenirs,
envahissent mon esprit,
qui lui ...

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Bienvenue en Suisse (Welcome to Switzerland)

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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 ...

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Winter is coming.

... 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.

That's all I've got for now friends, until next time.

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Chamonix, Rhône-Alpes, France ehuard
Chamonnix Oct 22-23, 2009

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

Chamonnix, France October 19-21, 2009

... was awakened by the fire
alarm going off in the hallway. I got my shoes on and went down the
stairwell to the lobby floor. I was on the 3rd floor
(the 4th floor in the US) and did not want to be caught by
a fire. It turned out to be a false alarm and back to the room I
went. I gathered my stuff and headed off to the town center to see
what was happening. Chamonix was the birthplace of mountaineering as
it sits at the base of Mt. Blanc, the tallest mountain in ...

Chamonix, Rhône-Alpes, France nedk
Mont Blanc!

... 20 off we went.
The route was via motorways, we did turn off for a Lidl, getting some more money and petrol. We also sat outside the Maccas in the carpark to use the free internet to book accomodation. Our hotel is the number one ranked on Tripadvisor for great views and good service. Hopefully a very nice view of Mont Blanc, so we can see what the pens are trying to achieve on the top of the lids..hehe. I do remember selling Mont Blanc pens at David Jones during Uni..they were ...

Chamonix, Rhône-Alpes, France jasndan
Skiiers paradise and Jon's nightmare

... 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 ...

Chamonix, Rhône-Alpes, France sofenjon
Day off for the navigator

... So I was keeping an eye open for a policeman, and spotted a whole police station( or should I say Carabinieri)!! There must be one in there, we thought. And it's definitely worth stopping. We got a place to park (probably not very legal, but we were following the Italian rules of the road by now), grabbed our Landy Rally T shirts, and went on the hunt for points. It lookead bit locked up, but as we poked around the gate, a couple of people came ...

Aosta, Aosta Valley, Italy dirtyweekenders
Still here!

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Gryon, Switzerland meganandkevin
Live for the slopes

... 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.

Chamonix, Rhône-Alpes, France josh_m_54
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