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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 […]
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 well, […]
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 […]
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 out of Parkgate Steel […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today I managed to get my first 2009 ride on the slopes of Mont Chery. I had to stop for my coffee at the La Grand Ourse restaurant to say Hi to Gary and Theresa. They reported that last week was the first time that the whole Les Gets lift system was running at full […]
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 a slight upward trend in visitors. At $7.74 a day I’m not going to get […]
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:- 26 Dec 2008 to 4 Jan 2009 (KB party of 4) 4 Jan to 31st […]
One of my ambitions since getting my apartment in Les Gets has been to snow shoe walk up and board down the impressive Roc d’Enfer (2200m) which you can see from the top of my favourite hill, Mont Chery. Last week with Sally and Ray we explored Roc d’Enfer (nb. Enfer is the French word […]