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The journal
Here is the guy clearing the entrance to my apartment in Les Gets this morning. Oh how I would love to have such a machine 🙂 High winds prevented access to the Northern slopes of Mont Chéry today, so hopefully lots of new runs there tomorrow. Here is the scene at the mid station today: […]
Oh dear it has been officially noted that I’m been very lazy. Just received this from Amazon:- We noticed your blog (listed below) has not updated for more than 30 days. Kindle customers expect to receive frequent updates for blogs and news feeds to which they subscribe. Because blogs should update at least once per […]
Just had this great email from the last tenants in my Les Gets apartment Hi Geoff, We’re all back safe, sound and much refreshed having had a great time in Les Gets. The apartment was clean, comfy and well appointed and helped us to have a super skiing trip. As you said the pistes were […]
An experiment to see if I can upload a picture direct from my Picasa to this wordpress blog. As you can see it worked using dracas Picasa album uploader the picture is of the outside Ice skating rink in Les Gets central square. It first refused to instal the button in Picasa. in the end […]
I have this set of magnificent maps and guides all in German of The Rhine cycle route. The question is at 1kg do I take them tomorrow? The route is in my GPS and on my Eee ( the iPad is staying at home since it’s incapable of syncing the Etrex and geotagging my camera […]
Today whilst researching my upcoming bike ride down the length of The Rhine I came across the website Bikely, this amazingly allows you to trace over Google Maps and generate gpx files that my Garmin understands. I can thus plan the whole 1000mile route and let the Garmin Etrex behave like a TomTom device to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
