Blogs from Val-d'Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe

Itinerary: · 2 Mar – dep SYD · 3 Mar – Lyon · 4-11 Mar – Val d’Isere · 11-18 Mar – Les Menuires (3 Valleys) · 18-25 Mar – Malta · 27 Mar – arr SYD Week 1 – Val d’Isere (4-11 March) After 9 months of planning the day finally arrived for us to depart from Sydney. Dale, Mum and Dad had departed a day earlier and flew into Zurich with the plan to catch the Glacier Express scenic train from St Moritz to Zermatt. Our flight from Sydney to Singapore was thankfully uneventful with a row all to ourselves. Unfortunately our night flight from Singapore to Frankfurt was very eventful with the passenger on the window waking us every 2-3 hours needing to go to the bathroom. At first it was very annoying ... read more

A long time since our last blog but a lot has happened and we have travelled quite some way. The tour of the battlefields in Ypres was excellent and moving at the same time. There were just three of with guide and we visited a number of sites including Tynecot cemetry and Polygon Wood which is where my grandfather fought and was wounded. At Sanctuary Wood some of the trenches have been left in tact which was fascinating and sobering. Since then we have travelled through France and in particular visited historic towns of Laon and Bar Le Duc: These were both fortified towns with stone walls and large cathedrals on top of ridges. We have stayed at a couple of incredible chateaux, including one where had a eight course meal over three and a half ... read more

I have found a computer. I arrive at the next farm this afternoon. Well It seems my last two blog entries were lost in a server crash. Maybe its for the best? I have readded some of the pictures.... and a summary: Crazy, long lost brother-uncle-cousin Steve lands in Geneva, Switzerland in an intense delerium, returns to his french family, drools into his fondu and mumbles unintelligibly. He is forced into slave labor picking fruit in the Alps. thats about it, steve ... read more

Hello everybody, I thought I would fill you in on our exciting trip to La Rosiere yesterday on our day off and our ski over to Italia! Firstly though, I need to clarify something. For those of you who can ski you will be familiar with the piste grading system and know that a red isn't really that hard, or a black come to think of it. Well I had no idea until yesterday. Basically, I knew Val was meant to be a hard resort but didn't realise to quite the extent it is. The pistes in la Rosiere were so easy and groomed. Their reds were equivalent to our greens and blues. No wonder it took me ages to work up the courage to ski a red here whereas I skied down lots of ... read more

Hello everyone, Well it has been ages since we last updated this as we are terribly lazy and resent having to pay a fortune for the internet. I hope you realise this is costing me a whole weeks wages! If there are lots of typos it's cause the keys keep sticking and not cause I am bad at typing. Anyway, I hope everybody is well and looking forward to springtime. We have been getting slightly bored here with the whole routine of cooking and cleaning plus I really can't face most of the dinners anymore. It's too much effort to change our menu plans though so I'm living off mustard mayo sarnies and Weetabix. At first we were really getting to know the guests but now it seems as though we are churning them out and ... read more