We phoned the plumber this morning. I think French plumbers go to the same school as British plumbers. They could no longer come today, how about tomorrow?!?
We have a new guidebook - the new Michel Piola The Aiguilles Rouge (English version) - so we looked for something reasonably short for our first day in Chamonix...
If the Dolomites hadn't been enough for the old legs, we finished off the holidays with the Phoenix long o/mountain marathon near Rothbury in Northumberland...
The climbing wall at Ratho (the EICA; Edinburugh International Climbing Arena) has got to be the biggest climbing wall I've ever seen! It has almost the same ability to intimidate as a real crag...