http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Italy , Aosta Valley en-us Sat, 05 Dec 09 13:39:02 +0000 Sat, 05 Dec 09 13:39:02 +0000 Nothing much happened on the ferry. We chatted to people. Hilary read the other two books she bought for the reader Fury and Interworld. Eventually we got to Ancona left straight away and rode 80 km straight into the sun ending up back at the Ferrara hotel in Cattolica. They seemed pleased to see us. Ashley demanded new eyes but settled for beer goggles we found a place opposite the Rit http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Aosta/blog-413299.html Trieste to ItalySo we are off to Aunty Almarsquos place in Ivrea near Aosta and kind of between Milan and Torino we are going to spend 4 lovely days chilling out and doing nothing. So we got on the train in Trieste 1430 and started our journey we did the following transfers Trieste to Veneto Menstre to Milan to Ivrea and finally arrived at Almarsquos about 2030. We walked from the trai http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/blog-405150.html After our breakfast we head off into Italy and looking at Monte Bianco from the Aosta Valley. Pictures do not do the views justice http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Mont-Blanc/blog-404888.html Buying and selling World of Warcraft account is becoming safer and more popular every day. Compared to powerleveling which frequently causes accounts to be banned many account selling websites offer a 100 security guarantee.One of the reasons buying and selling WoW account is getting more popular is because of the ability to transfer characters to different realms. Although there are certain re http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Mont-Blanc/blog-394180.html Beautiful town in the Italian Alps good italian food good friends much improved snowboarding a triumphant snow boarding weekendCourmayeur a quaint and tiny Italian ski town at the foot of Mont Blanc was the site of this year's ski trip. Last year when I went to Switzerland my snowboarding skills were fledgling at best. I had a patient and brilliant coach but still got frustr http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Mont-Blanc/blog-385553.html Hi everyoneThis is what we got up to at the end of our season......We had very few guests in our last few weeks which was a really odd way to finish the season. Our favourite week was our busiest when there were loads of guests and the slopes were busy and the village felt alive. However it did allow us to have loads of visitors with whom we had great funSteve Smith came to visit and we manag http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Pila/blog-385309.html So what have we been up to.........Aileen tried snowboarding she can't turn yet but give her time. We had our end of season jolly with the other reps from the valley in Champoluc. It was great to see so many work colleagues out of uniform relaxed and having fun. We finished it off by heading to La Thuile for a night out Graham enjoyed seeing the Man U v Inter game on Sky and Aileen enjoyed seei http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Pila/blog-381550.html Ciao TuttiGosh its been a while but we have been busy We are well and truly in the swing of things now our week goes something like this...........Sunday Transfer day...up at 5am ish Graham takes the first bus down to Turin and Aileen follows at about 7.30am. Normally Graham doesn't have to do any smiley doors making a good first impression on customers at the airport as he is on the bus ag http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Pila/blog-376531.html HelloWell we are five weeks into it with guests and it is going really well. I love the guest side of things and Graham is doing really well with the ski guiding part of it. He has guided in Courmayeur and La Thuile now...long ski days but fun at the same time. He finds the Monday morning ski guiding a bit hectic as we nomally have a really late night on Sunday and there is lots of paperwork to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Pila/blog-364350.html Hi everyoneJust a little message to wish everyone a Happy New Year sending best wishes for 2009 The village we are living in have a big party on the 30th here so we had fireworks a torchlight descent hot wine and panetonne Xmas cake in the snow followed by a very late night at the pub with some of our guests. One of them was the son of my old Geography teacher Mr Smith small world After ge http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Pila/blog-358709.html MERRY XMASHello everyoneThis comes from a very snowy Pila in Italy. Sending you all festive wishes and hopes for a fabulous 2009. Our first week with guests has gone better than expected and we are both really enjoying it...phew...it doesn't really feel like work although it has been mega mega busy. We have not yet had a full transfer day with loads of flight delays and blocked roads so our http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Pila/blog-357075.html So tara and i have been in a bit of a fight lately. See tara faces a tough decision. Her final performance of her Broadway show ALL MY SONS is on the same night at the Golden Globes where i am nominated for my supporting role in Tropics of Thunder. Personally i've seen the play and Tara does a lousy job and the play sucks but my movie rules almost as much as Scientology. I am ike the king http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Pila/blog-356709.html First week as a ski repArrived in Cervinia Italy for 10 days training after 1101 miles we had no idea the training would be so long.....3 days for new rep training and 6 days with the experienced reps...and then we fly solo Finally got our placement on the 11th December we will be in charge of ourselves and a little resort called Pila in the Aosta valley. Our area manager is from Edinburg http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Aosta/blog-352445.html Once again I decided to hop in the car this time with my friend Laurie and go on yet a new adventure. As we were both craving real pizza we decided to take a trip over to the Aoste Valley in Italy. We found ourselves at border control the Italians are much more conscientious than the French about this and the entrance to the Great Saint Bernard Tunnel the most ancient pass through the West http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Aosta/blog-314709.html On to ItalyWe got decent weather. The first part of the journey was OK then there was a lot of low cloud which as we climbed towards Geneva just kind of dropped away leaving clear views. We made good time to Geneva where we had an adventure at a service station. The bike's immobiliser refused to respond to the fob and we were immobilised. Call to assistance who after taking details asked if http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Aosta/blog-286485.html The YaYa's have arrived My mother and her bestest bud since the ice age Mother Marilyn Tucker. It was wonderful to have not one but 2 grandmas to spoil us and the girls for 10 days. We got to celebrate Abigail's 6th birthday over French Flammenkuchen fancy pizza and homemade cake We took the opportunity to find some more spectacular spots in the area. We traveled to Chateau de Chillon o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Aosta/blog-217149.html The forecast was snow in the Italian Alps this weekend and what better way to check out my first Italian ski experience in Courmayeur. Courmayeur Piste 610 lots of red but extremely bumpy. visibility was poor in the morning making it even harder to enjoy. Facilities 710 the people moving machinery was average but a long wait if you want to go all the way to the top. other than that http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Pila/blog-132753.html And the Israelis are welcome to sing it to the music of ldquogan sagoorrdquo of the ldquo16th Sheeprdquo... So what happened After the hard day we had yesterday Dana and I decided to take the cablecar up. It was anyway a rather short day so we got up late and by 9am Ron started to walk while we went to the supermarket very happy and relaxed. After filling our bags with goods for t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Pila/blog-79558.html Wow we had one hard day... It started with an easy walk down Italian Val Ferret. At some point we saw the entire mountain side above us ruined all the trees cut. Ron said it looked like an avalanche and then he pointed to the right and there was the avalanche a huge pile of ice covered with mud scary to think what happened to everything that stood in its wayAt some point we started climbing http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Aosta-Valley/Pila/blog-78319.html