Catch Up from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Grenoble
We arrived just in time for the last hour in the Art Gallery. The Old Masterpieces were good, the new stuff total crap. In one room some joker had dumped little piles of white rice on the floor in a 40x40 grid. Five of the piles were yellow. Even with a vaccuum cleaner its going to be a big job to clean up that mess!


Aix-en-Bains
Our travel book said to avoid this place on weekends, but we happened to be passing through on a Sunday afternoon. Traffic was hell. It's a quaint enough little place on the side of a very nice lake. There also happened to be some special event on. We couldn't comprehend exactly what it was all about, but we enjoyed watching the little kids on the climbing frame and flying fox, the electric bikes from www.hollandbikes.com, and the stunt cyclists doing jumps and various insane feats.



Annecy
We visited this fabulous little village on our previous trip to France. Just as nice this time so we
spent 2 nights here. Tricia got creative with the camera this time.




Chamonix Mont Blanc
We spent most of the day trying to travel the 50Km to Chamonix Mont Blanc through gorgeous mountain scenery. The numerous photo stops, and a visit to yet another Musee de la Resitance delayed us somewhat.

We finally arrived and were actually able to see part of the mountain through the low clouds. We are told tomorrow should be better so have decided to spend 2 nights. I am curious to see if Tricia will change her position that nothing on earth will get her into a cable car that ascends at a ridiculous angle up a bunch of rocks that don't even have any water falling off them to get to a restaurant "at the top of the world" that closed for the season yesterday.

Here is the view from our hotel room tonight.



The next day Tricia really get into the cable car for the first leg. We then went straight to the waiting area for the second cable car to take us to the top. I couldn't resist taking a photo or two and when I turned around Tricia had vanished. I searched everywhere, the cable car was about to go, then I spotted her trying to escape by the walking path back to the bottom. I caught up to her and she claimed to have been disoriented. We did then get into the car to the top and could hardly see a thing, cloud and vertical snow was everywhere. It was very cold. Then we saw the elevator to the real top. Would it be worth bothering? Judge for yourselves.







The last one triggered a coffee disaster.

We took that elevator trip 3 times. Between us, we took 351 photos today (I am fairly sure Tricia took one).

We were pessimistic about the weather today, so we bought a 2 day Multipass. Surely tomorrow can't be any better?