Chamonix 26 7 08

We awoke after a borken sleep, not so cold but very heavy rain that had Ben in the bed with us again.

We went to Chamonix for a few things and to go back to the tourist info, you get free WIFI there which is handy, I’m in discussion about another couple of Wedding Bookings so wanted to check emails. Also, our enjoyment of camping is running out so we’ve decided to rent an apartment in Austria, the camp site is quite expensive at 240 euros for the week, we can rent an apartment for 340 euros – no brainer in my view so we need to look at some options.

We find a couple of options and Helen has also said that her friend might rent us her apartment. We’ll come back to this later.

It’s market day in Chamonix so we have a look round and take some pictures.

It was mainly food, pity we cant keep anything cool as some of it looked lovely.

We’ve decided to take the mountain train up to the range and then do some of the walks around the summit so we head for the station, the weather is not so good today, cooler and cloudy.

Ben was not keen on the train journey but he was ok.

We arrived at the top, it was cooler and getting cloudy so we decided not to walk too far as we didn’t have our waterproofs. There is a hotel at the top, it looked nice and we must have a night here in the future.

We walked over to the area where you can see the glacier, it was too dangerous to go on it so we stopped and looked at it. Apparently it is 120 metres deep and it is getting thinner by 4cm every year.

We headed back for the train, the clouds were closing in and rain was not far off . The train was packed and as we waited for it the thunder started, the dogs were beside themselves all the way down the hill, then the heavens opened and we had rain that was something else, torrential is probably not strong enough a word.

When we got to the bottom there was more thunder and I said that as the car was about a mile away I should go and then come back to collect Susan and the dogs, no point in everyone getting soaked. I got drenched on the way to the car but at least it was only a T shirt and shorts to try and dry, oh and shoes!

We checked into our hotel which is basic and comfortable and I had a great shower, we went out to have a look round leaving the dogs in the room. They are fine and Ben has found that he likes to sleep in the wardrobe.

Heading out now for dinner.