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From Cheeky Chamonix Ski
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From Black Forest New Year
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From Xmas 2022
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From Lundy 2022
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From Cap Blanc-Nez
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From Vertus, and Champagne!
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From Vallon de Berard
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From Les Gets & Morzine Downhill Mountain Biking
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From Chamonix Renovations
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
After the Black Forest we swung by Chamonix hoping for a little more snow. Alas, while there was more snow thanks to the higher altitude it wasn’t that great. Especially considering the €54 each lift pass pricing. You might have thought that with such poor conditions they’d have had an offer on?
We’d hoped to be able to do some skiing in the Black Forest with our friends Rebecca and Mathias. But the weather was more like spring or autumn than winter … glorious blue skies, dry leaves on the ground instead of fluffy snow, and T-shirt wearing temperatures!
Hopefully Covid isolation, lockdowns, etc. are finally just a memory … back to normal with a big family Xmas dinner! Yum Yum!
Lundy is a special place – an island about three miles long and half a mile wide stuck out in the Bristol Channel about 20 miles off the Devonshire coastline; surrounded on all sides by sea cliffs and a marine wildlife sanctuary; an important sea bird (inc. the eponymous puffin) breeding location; isolated with no …
One final instalment to the Chamonix ’22 trip and the journey home – back when Ian and I went out to France in June we stopped in a super cheap hotel in Calais the night before our early ferry back to Dover. We ate dinner in a simple bar in town and noted that the …
It was time to leave Chamonix, the weather was poor there for a few days so an early escape from the rain promised sunny dry rock and adventure elsewhere. We plotted a route home via what looked like a very interesting limestone crag in the middle of the flatlands of the beautiful Champagne region…
The best day of weather was reserved for our first passion, rock climbing…
Equipped with full-face helmets, goggles, knee and elbow pads we’d arrived in Les Gets ready to throw ourselves in to the new (to us) sport and experience of downhill mountain biking…
Open fireplaces are not allowed in Chamonix rental apartments any longer so a massive renovation project was planned…
