Geoff on Aug 11 2009 | Filed under: Les Gets, Travel Blogging
On the Tenth day I made it to Les Gets by 4pm. Two Cols climbed with a total ascent of over 6000 feet (two Ben Nevis’s nearly) and a distance of 70 miles. Not bad at all, the total journey came in at 779miles.
The weather stayed fine so I managed to stay warm the N5 [...]
Geoff on Aug 10 2009 | Filed under: Les Gets
A day in the Haut Jura. Dominated by the torrential rain and my freezing feet. They became blocks of ice on the descent into Morez through driving rain, my only thought became on how to get into a red hot bath asap.
I stopped at 61 miles with 1947m of ascent for the day. A lot [...]
Geoff on Aug 06 2009 | Filed under: Les Gets
A ride through Picardie in the plus thirties.
I started late as I was still trying to plot a route without to many hills. Not to successfully I might add, I have this suspicious feeling that the French canal system would get me through France on the flat! However, the few towpaths I’ve seen have varied [...]
Geoff on Aug 05 2009 | Filed under: Les Gets
Another long day of over 90 miles with over 1200merres of ascent – yep it’s very hilly and you can only admire those poor sods in WW1 who fought every inch of the way. Every village and every hill has it’s own immaculately kept soldiers cemetry. Anyone who critizes the EU should come and take [...]
Geoff on Aug 03 2009 | Filed under: Les Gets
A great day for biking with a nice breeze behind me most of the way. Managed to do 103miles. Which is probably first time since I was 18!
Managed to do a nice circular tour from Tower Bridge to Greenwich plus discovered the Medway tunnel is not for cyclists! Both events leading to quite [...]
Geoff on Mar 07 2009 | Filed under: Les Gets, Personal
Les Gets is having plenty of snow this year .
Here is a snapshot of the webcam in the centre of the village, looks like they have set up a snowboard park in the village square with some guy just getting air on his board!
You can see my apartment on the webcam as [...]
Geoff on Feb 03 2009 | Filed under: Les Gets, Personal, cambridge
Whilst in Les Gets I learnt from Thierry that icicles are a sign of a poor roof or defective guttering. Today, Sally spotted this on MY house here in Cambridge.
Oh dear, really don’t fancy clambering up a three extension ladder 40 feet and fixing this
I guess it’s not in the same league as [...]
Geoff on Jan 22 2009 | Filed under: Les Gets
My friend George, his son Graham and friend Ian, arrived somewhat earlier than anticipated at 3.30am this morning
I met George when I was working at the Renishaw Iron Works in 1962. He was the assistant instructor to the redoubtable Fred Smith on the Duke of Edinburgh’s award scheme operated [...]
Geoff on Jan 20 2009 | Filed under: Les Gets
After yesterdays total wash out (Although I did spend the day transferring blogs to my account at webfaction and learning about host files in windows, including using the rather cool HostsMan programme).
It was great to wake up to a massive dump of snow (which killed the apartments power from 3am to 8am). Thierry reassured [...]
Geoff on Jan 08 2009 | Filed under: Les Gets
Today has been glorious here in Les Gets, bright sunshine helping to offset the -8 degrees temperatures.
I took my board out for a 28mile ride going up 13 lifts totalling about 3 vertical miles of ascent Top speed recorded on the GPS was 34.7mph. I felt really comfortable motoring along, either I’m getting [...]
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