The New Year is now well
underway and, on Sunday, we admired our new Christmas tree for the last time
until next Christmas. Before the rather sad tree undressing ceremony, we turned
off the lounge lights so our tree's lights could shine without competition.
Gerry, Louis and I (Gio)
were lurking in the branches, ready to take off the decorations. Can you see
us, looking rather like decorations ourselves?
Just as we've ended one
year and started another, so the time has come to finish our Mont Blanc posts
and start some new adventures.
You may recall that by the
end of our last Mont Blanc post, the walking was complete, but there was still
a free day to enjoy the delights of Chamonix. We had a very relaxed day looking
round and liked what we saw.
We visited the church and
admired the stained glass windows depicting the outdoor activities for which
the town is famous ...
... we visited lots of
outdoor shops - our favourite type of shop - and picked up some great bargains
in the Quecha shop (we should definitely have more Quecha shops over here). We
then found a pleasant restaurant for a spot of lunch. Yorkie very definitely
approved of the duck crepe.
We spent the afternoon
watching an international climbing competition in the main square.
Men climbed the face on the
left and women the slightly different face on the right. The big screens you
see to the right of our picture, gave us close up views of the techniques of
both climbers. As soon as a climber fell off they were replaced by another
competitor. It was non stop action and completely fascinating. We spent several
hours watching and only left to in search of an ice cream before returning to
our campsite via a pleasant riverside walk.
In the evening we had our
final group meal and, realised it was probably time to go home, when, after
several dry days, it started raining again.
We left for Geneva airport
and home the next day. We had enjoyed a marvellous adventure and thoroughly
recommend the Tour de Mont Blanc to anyway who is up for a great walking
challenge.
Back soon, lots of love
George, Yorkie and Gio xxx
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