Well, it was really something to get here but it was worth the trouble. This place is great!! I am currently sitting on the terrace of my hostel/hotel thing with a view to my right of Mt. Blanc and the French Alps. It's so beautiful here! Matt is just in awe of this place. After we put our stuff down we walked around the town a bit then caught the gondola up to the peak (of dear, I don't have its name handy) Anyways, really high up. The place you go is 3842 meters high and you're looking up at Mt Blanc from there. It was so awesome. The view in any direction was just spectacular!
Our train ride in should have been a good indication. As it started to get lighter and lighter (we boarded our first train at 6:03am) we could see the mountains emerging and it just kept getting better and better and then we were at the train station in no time. Thank goodness.
Its been so great to be out of th city finally. This place has no tour bus crowds (expect Japanese/Chinese, they are everywhere) but its been fun. Lots of mountaineering shops and climbers wandering the streets. Really laid back place here. Its incredible. I love it here! Reminds me of home sort of. Except without the prices and the French speaking etc. Hehehe
So far the French people have exceeded expectations. We have many pleasant encounters with people thank goodness again.
I think this afternoon Matt and I will just chill out in th park or something. Its just too stunning to do anything else. I'm not kidding, wait until I upload the photos. Which I would have done right now but I got moved outside and locked out while the nice man cleans the rooms. So I'm typing while I wait to be let back in.
There is a weird haze around all of Italy, not sure what that is. It reminds me of when they burn the fields in Nampa etc. So when we were at the top of the mountain we could see the haze layer below us. Too weird for a mountain range like this.
The hotel we are staying at (hotel at hostel prices~my toilet doesn't have a seat!) has a Mexican restaurant downstairs so we will eat mexican tonight. Its called Hotel El Paso.
Tomorrow night there is a hockey game here in town. We might try to go see it! That would be fun! Its going to be a pretty quiet couple of days and then we head back to dreaded Milan for one more night before we both fly out. This was such an awesome way to end Matts trip. Now that I've seen the big stuff I'll spend more time in the Alps next time I'm in Italy. Wow that was a trip.
My achiles tendon and my heel are so sore I can't put shoes on. I had to go up the mountain with my flip flops. We are talking icy pathways and snow up there. Brr!!
I think this is by far the coolest place I've been so far! We will take a different route out of here too so we'll be in the mountains for that!
We came here by way of Chambery, Annecy, St Gervais I think its a typical route from Lyon or Paris to get here. (except Chambery)
Anyone know any french words? I mean, we are struggling here big time! We didn't intend to be in a french speaking place for as long as we were. With out epic train journey through France. ha!
So, I am just still here waiting for the nice man to let me back in. I haven't a penny in my pocket to go buy a soda or anything so unless I want hotsauce I'm out of luck. (hotsauce on the tables in the terrace of the texmex restaurant. ha!
more later and pictures too!! Its so beautiful!!
Our train ride in should have been a good indication. As it started to get lighter and lighter (we boarded our first train at 6:03am) we could see the mountains emerging and it just kept getting better and better and then we were at the train station in no time. Thank goodness.
Its been so great to be out of th city finally. This place has no tour bus crowds (expect Japanese/Chinese, they are everywhere) but its been fun. Lots of mountaineering shops and climbers wandering the streets. Really laid back place here. Its incredible. I love it here! Reminds me of home sort of. Except without the prices and the French speaking etc. Hehehe
So far the French people have exceeded expectations. We have many pleasant encounters with people thank goodness again.
I think this afternoon Matt and I will just chill out in th park or something. Its just too stunning to do anything else. I'm not kidding, wait until I upload the photos. Which I would have done right now but I got moved outside and locked out while the nice man cleans the rooms. So I'm typing while I wait to be let back in.
There is a weird haze around all of Italy, not sure what that is. It reminds me of when they burn the fields in Nampa etc. So when we were at the top of the mountain we could see the haze layer below us. Too weird for a mountain range like this.
The hotel we are staying at (hotel at hostel prices~my toilet doesn't have a seat!) has a Mexican restaurant downstairs so we will eat mexican tonight. Its called Hotel El Paso.
Tomorrow night there is a hockey game here in town. We might try to go see it! That would be fun! Its going to be a pretty quiet couple of days and then we head back to dreaded Milan for one more night before we both fly out. This was such an awesome way to end Matts trip. Now that I've seen the big stuff I'll spend more time in the Alps next time I'm in Italy. Wow that was a trip.
My achiles tendon and my heel are so sore I can't put shoes on. I had to go up the mountain with my flip flops. We are talking icy pathways and snow up there. Brr!!
I think this is by far the coolest place I've been so far! We will take a different route out of here too so we'll be in the mountains for that!
We came here by way of Chambery, Annecy, St Gervais I think its a typical route from Lyon or Paris to get here. (except Chambery)
Anyone know any french words? I mean, we are struggling here big time! We didn't intend to be in a french speaking place for as long as we were. With out epic train journey through France. ha!
So, I am just still here waiting for the nice man to let me back in. I haven't a penny in my pocket to go buy a soda or anything so unless I want hotsauce I'm out of luck. (hotsauce on the tables in the terrace of the texmex restaurant. ha!
more later and pictures too!! Its so beautiful!!
Okay there are some photos on here now. It took a while. Matt and I ended up sitting down at the restaurant here for some Mexican and it was so expensive that we went and bought a sandwich some where else instead. The salsa they had was good though.
While we were out we met an entire group of guys from Switzerland, they all turned out to be police officers. They were on a weekend break driving their motorcycles around the area and stopped in Chamonix. They were great fun. All spoke english and so matt and I had a laugh with them for a bit then headed home.
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