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18th March 2012 Skiing: Chamrousse Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: Cloudy Max Speed: Distance Covered: Thursday 15th Mar.2012 – Off to France for 90 days :) Leave Felixstowe 11:20 am, good trip to shuttle, train delayed a little. Set sat-nav to avoid tolls, got in a bit of a muddle to start, then head into Belgium for free motorway :) Stopped for the night in a lay by on the A4 near Namur with lots of Lorries, a bit noisy but knackered and sleep really well :) Friday 16th Mar.2012 – Day travelling. Drive on through Belgium and Luxemburg, surprisingly hilly and pretty. Lovely sunny day, 20 degrees! Fill up with diesel in Luxemburg, only 1.29 Euro’s a litre!!! about 40p cheaper than England. Drove back into France and stopped the night up a hill near a flood lit tower by St. Denis-en-Bugey in a car park with a great view. Went for a walk as the sunset to the tower :) Saturday 17th Mar.2012 – Travelling with sightseeing. Not such a good night’s sleep :( winds in the trees! Woke up early to check the sunrise but too cloudy. Dressed and breakfast and out walking by 9:30 am. We walked for an hour around the top of the hill on a circular path popular with joggers and bikers in a wood on the lookout for birds, not much about apart from a large buzzard. Then set off along a fantastic valley road toward Chambery, taking a small detour around the lovely Lac Du Bourget :) We parked at the marina in Aiz-Les-Bains and walked to the nature reserve and saw some cool ducks. Had a sandwich at the end of the harbour wall and enjoyed the sunshine. Set sat nav for Chamrousse but it played up a bit on the mountain road but we made it to the reception at about 5:30 pm and booked into our small but nice ground floor apartment, a Groupon bargain - £340 for the week including two 7 day adult lift passes – the lift passes alone would be 338 Euro’s !!!! – We love Groupon :) Sunday 18th Mar.2012 - Skiing and open air swimming in the snow :) *** Woke up to a windy and cloudy day :( but still at the lifts a short walk away by 10 am, we had to buy the ski insurance for the week and Mag had to have her skis adjusted for her new boots. We are surprised how busy the resort is with a lot of German and Poles!!! also loads of kids playing follow my leader in ski school. As the weather wasn’t brilliant we decided to take it easy on the first day as we haven’t been for a year :( and spent the morning on the nice tree lined runs of Chamrousse 1700 and 1750. The snow on the piste is in good condition even though by the look of things it hasn’t snowed for awhile :( the off piste looks crusty and brown and best avoided! We decided to go back to our apartment for lunch as it was a bit breezy on the lifts and I had worn my Gath helmet I use for speed sailing and it was giving me a headache :( During lunch the cloud came in and it started to snow so we knocked the afternoon skiing on the head and relaxed and read our books. At three we wrapped up for a walk in the snow and went to have a look at the free outdoor heated pool, there were a few braving the falling snow in the pool swimming and playing snowballs!!! So we went and got our swimming stuff and joined them :) You started off in a warm pool indoors and swam through a plastic curtain to swim in the large pool which was lovely and warm despite the falling snow!!! We spent 15 minutes in the Jacuzzi with a nice Scottish family before returning to the pool to do a few lengths – so a surreal experience swimming in the snow, not to be missed for the world!!! The snow is still falling and our poor old van is now under four inches of snow and the windsurfing boards have all but disappeared, apparently more snow tomorrow before brightening up could be some good skiing – fingers crossed for some blue skies too ! |
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