Trenton Transit Center
2024年7月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
Once more a private Limo driver named Barry kindly took me (and now Laurie as well) to Trenton where we are taking NJ Tansit to EWR
Chilling at UA lounge in EWR
2024年7月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
The trip was a breeze. TSA Prev was fast, and here we are relaxing for 4 hours ...
The plane is on time and the sky is blue 😁
Le petit déjeuner au GVA
2024年7月4日, スイス ⋅ ⛅ 57 °F
This was an absolute piece of cake!
The plane took off on time, arrived early, took us about 5 minutes to go through Passport Control and since now we have to wait almost 2 hours for our bus we areもっと詳しく
Vert Lodge
2024年7月4日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 64 °F
We made it to Chamonix! 😁👍
This is our hotel for tonight, but we are switching our lieu de résidence every day...
The ride was beautiful, especially when we started glimpsing Mont Blanc andもっと詳しく
Litte exploring and little dinner
2024年7月4日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
We dropped our stuff at the hotel and did some small running around getting couple more supplies for the hike and lining up touristy stuff for upcoming days.
All the while the White Mountain isもっと詳しく
une belle matinée à Chamonix
2024年7月5日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Of course, last night, we were down and out as soon as we hit the bed.
This morning, we ligered in bed a little, then are a plain breakfast of baguette with jam (I also had some salami and cheese)もっと詳しく
Streets of Chamounix
2024年7月5日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
We checked out from the hotel and walked about 2km to out Hotel du Jour, where we stored our luggage until the check-in time and just happily walked around little streets of Chamounix
You can checkもっと詳しく
Chamounix 2
2024年7月5日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
More beautiful flowers
Rive Arne
Reformed Church of France (Eglise Réformée Arve Mont-Blanc)
Chamounix Train Station
The Monument aux Morts memorial commemorates the residents ofもっと詳しく
Yummy Dinner at Restaurant Josephine
2024年7月5日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
Decided to do it European style and had a dinner more orcless during "our lunch time"
The food was very good and the salad simply outstanding 👌
Aiguille du Midi
2024年7月5日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F
The Aiguille du Midi (French pronunciation: [eɡɥij dy midi], "Needle at midday") is a 3,842-metre-tall (12,605 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif within the French Alps. It is a popular touristもっと詳しく
At the top
2024年7月5日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 50 °F
... well almost...
To begin with, even in summer, temperatures in the open viewing areas can fall to −10 °C (14 °F), and I definitely was feeling the cold the higher i was going.
Then, of course,もっと詳しく
Lac Bleu
2024年7月5日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
Laurie meanwhile decided to hike to Lac Bleu (The Blue Lake) a beautiful crystal clear mountain lake with plenty of gorgeous blueberry flowers and wild life (she told me she did see a marmot (sort-ofもっと詳しく
2nd Hotel du Jour
2024年7月5日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
Unquestionably a huge step up from last night.
I initially booked it when we thought we were staying only 1 dayand I scored an unbelievable deal for it - about $30.00 a night...then when we changedもっと詳しく
2nd morning in Chamounix
2024年7月6日〜8日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F
A beautiful morning; waking up to birds chirping and breath of fresh mountain air coming from the balcony.
A breakfast is a mile away from the simple spread we had yesterday; I actually was a goodもっと詳しく
Mer de Glace
2024年7月6日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 63 °F
Today is a tough day. Rains and later on thunderstorms are supposed to roll into the area.
We are off to see the Mer de Glace and Ice Caves in Montenvers early in the morning and then try to make ourもっと詳しく
Mer de Glace 2
2024年7月6日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F
The Mer de Glace ("Sea of Ice") is a valley glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. It is 7.5 km long and 200 metres (660 ft) deep but, when all itsもっと詳しく
The Ice Caves
2024年7月6日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
The Ice Grotto/Cave
A small cable car allows visitors to descend from the train station onto the Mer de Glace glacier where they can enter a man made ice grotto. The ice grotto is cut into the livingもっと詳しく
Ice Caves 2
2024年7月6日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
It's hard to see, but photo 2 with Laurie is a sculpture carved like a fireplace, and the next one with me has a diamond in the middle of that "wall"
Les Houches
2024年7月6日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 64 °F
When we returned to Chamounix, the rain started a steady slow drizzle, so we hightailed back to the hotel, grabbed our stuff, and took The Mont Blanc Express train to our next way point - Lesもっと詳しく
Dinner
2024年7月6日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 63 °F
..that started with pre-dinner aperitif (which, of course, is self-explanatory redundant 😉) in the bar.
Local Mont Blanc bier pour moi and vin Rouge pour Mme
I couldn't believe the size of thatもっと詳しく
Morning in Les Houches
2024年7月7日, フランス ⋅ 🌫 52 °F
Rather a cloudy morning with some drizzle continued from last night
We fortified ourselves with some yummy breakfast and checked ourselves out ready to tackle our first day of the adventure 😀
Letもっと詳しく
Bellevue Telepherique and Col de Voza
2024年7月7日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F
So we cut off a couple of kilometers and some time by utilizing Bellevue Telepherique instead of hiking from Les Houches Centre up the mountain
Here we did our Cerene Foggy video of the morning,もっと詳しく
Les Contamines
2024年7月7日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
After a couple of little ups and downs, we finally came into Les Contamines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Contamines-Mo…) and checked into out abode Hotel Christiania.
Our little room
Viewもっと詳しく
Bionnassay
2024年7月7日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
Took a nice break at Bionnassay - a high-altitude hamlet in France located in Haute-Savoie , in the commune of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains , in a small side valley to the Val Montjoie , at an altitude ofもっと詳しく
La Vilette
2024年7月7日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F
After crossing Riv Arne we cameout into a clearing an soon had a fast brake at La Vilette - another little hamlet known for its fountain where hikers can replenish their water supply
Soon after weもっと詳しく























































































































































































































































































