Tag Archives: Les Gets

Cambridge to Les Gets the final map.

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Geoff_In_France

After much effort with dodgy computers I’ve stitched together all 10 days of my travel to Les Gets. Joost at Everytrail listened to their customers and have now enabled importing pictures from Picasa. So here is the trip with all … Continue reading →

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Biking to Les Gets Day -1

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Geoff

The big day arrives tomorrow, Sally and I bike off to London with me continuing on to my apartment in Les Gets (if I’m up to it!). My Caradice saddlebag is all packed and Howes have fixed my Dawes bike … Continue reading →

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Cycling again after 40 years……

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Geoff

Its been in my head for a long time to cycle down through France, in fact checking my Quicken I can see that I treated myself to a new bike for £669.98p for my birthday 10 years ago! A bike … Continue reading →

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Icicles at home & away

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Geoff

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 … Continue reading →

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George arrives in Les Gets

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Geoff

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 … Continue reading →

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Les Gets powder day

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Geoff

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 … Continue reading →

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Boarding in Les Gets

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Geoff

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 … Continue reading →

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Personal website values

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Geoff

Another site for checking the predicted monetary value of your website over at WebValuer. Here are the results for GeoffJones:- Cool to see I’ve had the site for over 10 years now and interesting to see there seems to be … Continue reading →

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Promising start to the season..

Posted on November 22, 2008 by admin

Its beginning to look good for winter sports in Les Gets, France where my apartment is. Here is the webcam view taken this evening from the tourist office looking towards the apartment. Currently I have bookings on the following dates:- … Continue reading →

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Awesome day in les Gets

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Geoff

Today was my final day on a snowboard this season. What an awesome day – fresh powder, clear slopes and mainly sunshine although some very thick cloud especially on top of Ranfoilly. Excelled myself by covering best part of 30miles … Continue reading →

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